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.
Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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