He is well known enough not to need a 6ft tall phallus and a velvet white whale to draw in the punters, but Stewart Lee seems to like strange props.
The audience is advised to familiarise itself with the story of Moby Dick from a copy it has been handed before the show, and some soothsaying ‘fortune sandwiches’ are passed around at the end. It is a good set. Lee explains how he hit on the idea of showing a fight between porn king King Dong and Moby Dick.
He says that he wanted to get two references to the male member in his show title. There is also a great scene of Lee trying out his idea in front of an unreceptive student audience. It is a mixture of a stand-up show and a bizarre lecture on two dicks and it is funny.
Lee’s timing is smooth and his material irreverent and imaginative.
It is a busy, convoluted story which rolls a lot of different types of humour into an hour and keeps you wanting more. Incidentally, my fortune sandwich said: “As flies to shit, so are you to disappointments.”
This show proved an exception to the rule.
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