I saw Richard Herring's Comedy Night at the Lyric Theatre and I just wanted to write about it.
So, Richard Herring compared the gig and was funny as usual. He bantered excellently with the crowd. He did a mix of new material and old, and whored himself a little too with his book and AIOTM (AIOTM!).
The first act on was Rufus Hound. He honestly left me cold. It wasn't that he was totally terrible and unfunny, but his style didn't suit the gig. He even admitted that his stuff didn't really work with this audience verses a comedy club audience. He unintelligently attacked religion and too much of his stuff was sexual, which gets boring and is a cheap laugh. He was very repetitive and he couldn't work it well. He was certainly the weakest act of the night.
Rich Hall was next and he was funny but it's hard to put my finger on why. I think he is just a funny person. He told a lot of long stories which he sometimes he didn't quite get to the point. I think the set was too short for him to totally get into a pattern.
The headliner was Stewart Lee and he was extremely funny. Unlike Rufus, he can do repetition well, using the pattern of his voice and evolving the joke to keep it funny. He mixed up slight absurdity, whimsy, satire, meta-jokes and observation and made it work. He even sang and played guitar, which he was actually pretty good at! And he even ripped his trousers when he wondered around the stage and tried to climb up this bit and couldn't. He was generally brilliant and was the strongest act on the bill.
I had a good time overall, and would like to see Stewart again if poss, and I am seeing Richard Herring again.
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