A clever idea, to bring the great lexicographer and his toadying sidekick back to the 21st century to revisit their famous journey to the Hebrides, in the Traverse’s late-night comedy slot. Late, you see, as in dead. But alive again. Iain Gillie, the promoter whose idea it was, made his best move in recruiting Stewart…
‘Aaaaaaand now, all the way from England… Dr Samuel Johnson!’ says a bewigged James Boswell (Miles Jupp, on top form as the 18th-century biographer), acting as MC and warm-up act in Stewart Lee’s comedy theatre show. ‘Didn’t I tell you he was a funny man ladies and gentlemen?’ says Boswell, having cajoled the legendary lexicographer…