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Stewart
Lee at Swansea Grand Theatre, 15th October 2009 Thanks to Stewart Lee’s amazing BBC show, he has been able to break out of the small theatre circuit and play much larger theatres, like Swansea’s grand theatre. Opening up the show was oddball Canadian Tony Law. I had previously seen Tony’s material thanks to Go Faster Stripe’s release of his DVD. After a dreadful start to his set, in which he managed to alienate the entire audience with a prolonged bit on goat farming, he managed to pull the audience back with jokes about paedophilia and ethnic cleansing. This may sound harsh, but Tony is a true professional, exceptionally funny and can manage to get away with this ‘taboo’ subjects. Stewart Lee’s
set began with a mundane story about a bad experience in a coffee
shop, and from there on the show got better and better to the climax.
Some fantastic material about subjects as varied as school, Top
Gear, Napalm Death and advertising, Stewart seems to be able to
write truly important and influential stand up in his sleep. He
even manages to include a song in a comedy show which is actually
funny, and surprisingly he has a really good voice! I didn’t
think that Stewart was the type of comedian who could pull as many
people as he did, and it is heartening to see that not everyone
watches the lowest common denominator stand up that is force-fed
to us by mainstream media. An exceptional performer, an exceptional
performance and I’m looking forward to seeing the show again
at the Leicester Square Theatre this December. Leigh |
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