Stewart Lee vehicle tonight
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Cresp, I agree with that.
I once saw him in a comedy tent at a festival and I guess those aren't the best crowds for a comedian to play and his set wasn't going great. So he just started describing what the audience reactions were and did it for about 5 minutes - started off by just saying "just a handful of people laugh at that last joke over there to the left of the stage... and now more people laugh at me pointing that out than actually laughed at the joke.... the laughter has died down and we can hear people at the back of the tent starting to talk again and now a pocket of people are laughing at me pointing this out.....
When he started he had a smattering of laughter but by the end he had the whole place in the palm of his hand. The repetition came with him pointing out every few moments that all we were doing was laughing at a man describing the reactions of some people in a tent.
I think he is a brilliant comedian.