Courtesy of chrisjohnbeckett, Stewart Lee |
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London
Wednesday 18th July
Only the comedian Stewart Lee could
indirectly express his continuing hatred for Top Gear through some
brilliantly cringe-worthy praise for the show from Norwegian mass
murderer Anders Breivik.
Fresh from his award-winning BBC 2
Series, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, he discussed (Frankie) Boyle's
Law which apparently states that if something is not funny enough,
you just add something on the end. His ingenious ironic wit uses this
advice to his advantage throughout.
Lee rightly tells of how there are no
good jokes about Islam as there is not enough knowledge of the
religion between the stand-up and the audience.
The divided laughter of the Royal
Festival Hall toppled Lee, 44, into his middle-aged breakdown,
mocking the members of the audience who weren't keeping up with the
intelligence of his flawless comic timing, execution and content.
All he does any more is watch Scooby
Doo with his son and drive down the motorway to make five-minute
sketches out of amusing shop names. Office World drew a classic
prolonged talk about his meeting with a man made out of stationary
before he visited City Meat, resulting in excessive amounts of
dribble and spit washed across the stage, with some left on his face.
While drinking white wine straight from the bottle his hatred of social networking
produced an infuriating rant on the thousands of pointless tweets
about Lee's life.
Following the reading of some of 40,000
online comments gruelling Lee, he scowled at the audience shouting
'you miserable Royal Festival c***s!'
His disgust for 'all these young
Russell comedians' on the scene continued in an outstanding close to
the show which saw comedian Russell Kane slated for his emotional
close to his stand-up which had brought Lee's wife to tears.
The former half of the Lee and Herring 90s duo mocked Kane with his own rendition using dimmed lights and
heart-warming music.
Although enthusiastic support act
Michael Legge was uninspiring, Lee impeccably delivered surely the greatest
stand-up show of the year.
Rating: 9/10
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