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Feb. 6th, 2007 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shark_hatFound Room A at the National Gallery- stuff from the stores just hung up higgledy-piggledy on temporary boards. So that was fun. Also zoomed around the cast courts and the wrought iron at the V&A, which are very restful. But then! It was time for the reason for the trip to London.
Please ignore if not a Lee&Herring (or Simon Munnery) fan.
Overall, it was a fun gig. Many of the people on did material from the eighties or nineties- Simon Amstell did some terrible jokes he said he'd done at a drama school performance when he was 13. I loved Lee's introduction "With some material that hasn't been seen since 1987, and it didn't work then- Richard Herring!" (Of course afterwards he was "it's a shame when someone peaks so soon." That was interesting, actually, even at 16 Herring was into taking jokes apart to see how they ticked.) Hadn't seen Stephen Carlin before, he was good. Also Josie Long with a new bit, made-up celebrity anecdotes. Phill Jupitus did one of the first poems he wrote, about the fate of grown-up Beano characters -he laughed a lot because it was all so eighties, the Bash Street kids were all on YTS schemes and so on. I quite liked Dan Brown ("the mysterious chicken crossed the traffic-laden road. Why? I called an old college friend, now a world-renowned cryptographer...")
Simon Munnery was brilliant. He did both one of his very early bits, the Security Guard ("How many security guards does it take to change a lightbulb? One. We're not stupid." "What do you get if you cross a security guard? Trouble.") and also Alan Parker Urban Warrior, who is of course amazing. "I have 3 aims! One: Smash the system. Two: Create a better system. Three: Smash that as well." There were really very few updates needed- in the bit about how you will know when to assemble, text messages are now a possibility. Must say I loved when he roamed the audience for a minute and admitted he would have to use the fascist bourgeois bastard stairs to get back up.
It had been made clear that Ted Chippington wasn't associated with the evening, but in fact he did turn up, which was cool. Very dry punchline-less material. I'll probably buy the box-set ( It's not available in the shops. It must be cool.) He did a song with The Nightingales- I've no idea if I liked the music or not, it was so loud I couldn't hear it.
Clearly, however, most of the audience were there to see a moderately successful double-act from the nineties. From the minute they stood at the mikes and Lee said "I am a Mac", it was just cool. (Mitchell and Webb Mac vs PC ads) "Why them, Stew? That should have been us! I need this!" They made fun of their old selves (and themselves now), and the rapport still seemed to be there... it was just ace. Herring's newer self-excoricating stand-up style fitted in well to the act- he ranted and Lee tried to interject, mostly, they were sort of taking the "I would never go out with a fly" routine, making it nastier and pushing it till it broke. ("Somehow it isn't as funny now it's been fifteen years since I had a relationship rather than three, it seems sort of sad, doesn't it?") Lee did point out that the dynamic didn't work as well, "it's two fat blokes now!" Anyway. Amazing evening. The "Jive Bunny remix of my adolescence" (c. Lee) was smashing.
Ah, a video! Part 1 and part 2. Chortle review on Herring's site.
It was nice to have a restful night at R.'s and catch up this morning. She may have to move to get the kid into secondary school. How well the parental choice scheme has worked.
Please ignore if not a Lee&Herring (or Simon Munnery) fan.
Overall, it was a fun gig. Many of the people on did material from the eighties or nineties- Simon Amstell did some terrible jokes he said he'd done at a drama school performance when he was 13. I loved Lee's introduction "With some material that hasn't been seen since 1987, and it didn't work then- Richard Herring!" (Of course afterwards he was "it's a shame when someone peaks so soon." That was interesting, actually, even at 16 Herring was into taking jokes apart to see how they ticked.) Hadn't seen Stephen Carlin before, he was good. Also Josie Long with a new bit, made-up celebrity anecdotes. Phill Jupitus did one of the first poems he wrote, about the fate of grown-up Beano characters -he laughed a lot because it was all so eighties, the Bash Street kids were all on YTS schemes and so on. I quite liked Dan Brown ("the mysterious chicken crossed the traffic-laden road. Why? I called an old college friend, now a world-renowned cryptographer...")
Simon Munnery was brilliant. He did both one of his very early bits, the Security Guard ("How many security guards does it take to change a lightbulb? One. We're not stupid." "What do you get if you cross a security guard? Trouble.") and also Alan Parker Urban Warrior, who is of course amazing. "I have 3 aims! One: Smash the system. Two: Create a better system. Three: Smash that as well." There were really very few updates needed- in the bit about how you will know when to assemble, text messages are now a possibility. Must say I loved when he roamed the audience for a minute and admitted he would have to use the fascist bourgeois bastard stairs to get back up.
It had been made clear that Ted Chippington wasn't associated with the evening, but in fact he did turn up, which was cool. Very dry punchline-less material. I'll probably buy the box-set ( It's not available in the shops. It must be cool.) He did a song with The Nightingales- I've no idea if I liked the music or not, it was so loud I couldn't hear it.
Clearly, however, most of the audience were there to see a moderately successful double-act from the nineties. From the minute they stood at the mikes and Lee said "I am a Mac", it was just cool. (Mitchell and Webb Mac vs PC ads) "Why them, Stew? That should have been us! I need this!" They made fun of their old selves (and themselves now), and the rapport still seemed to be there... it was just ace. Herring's newer self-excoricating stand-up style fitted in well to the act- he ranted and Lee tried to interject, mostly, they were sort of taking the "I would never go out with a fly" routine, making it nastier and pushing it till it broke. ("Somehow it isn't as funny now it's been fifteen years since I had a relationship rather than three, it seems sort of sad, doesn't it?") Lee did point out that the dynamic didn't work as well, "it's two fat blokes now!" Anyway. Amazing evening. The "Jive Bunny remix of my adolescence" (c. Lee) was smashing.
Ah, a video! Part 1 and part 2. Chortle review on Herring's site.
It was nice to have a restful night at R.'s and catch up this morning. She may have to move to get the kid into secondary school. How well the parental choice scheme has worked.
