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Funny but not as effective as his TV show which had a lot of the same material in season 1
I heard an interview with Harry Hill recently which reminded me of his pre-TV Burb material and in particular how much I used to love the guy in the late 90's and it set me off looking for stuff from this period. It was not easy to find as, despite his immense success with ITV, a lot of his material hasn't been released onto DVD. Despite this I recently watched the first season of his TV show and then found this live show. I probably watched them in the wrong order because his TV show is a much more polished and refined version of this stage personae.
The show starts slowly with far too many "hmmm-hmmmm's" and random asides without any structure – add to this those big eyebrows which distract from what he is doing. The audience doesn't really seem to get into it quickly either, with mostly muted laughter for the first 5 or 10 minutes. Once we get over this though he finds his stride; he has sections of material which provides a good base for him to randomly lash out with surreal one liners or asides, while still engaging with his base material. This base material then sets up later throwback references and jokes which is a trait he did very well with the TV show and does well here too.
Much of the material was unfortunately too fresh in my mind from having recently watched the first season of his show, so it had less impact on me hearing the material twice very close together, but it was still funny. His stage delivery is confident and he doesn't let the odd joke that misses affect him, instead he continues and the audience mostly go with him the whole way. Those coming to this retrospectively off the back of his later material (even a year later on Channel 4) will struggle not to compare this show with how much better he would get, but this is not to take anything away from how good he is here. Well worth a look for those that have come to find him since, but the "looking back" aspect does have a bit of an impact on an otherwise very random, creative and funny show.
The show starts slowly with far too many "hmmm-hmmmm's" and random asides without any structure – add to this those big eyebrows which distract from what he is doing. The audience doesn't really seem to get into it quickly either, with mostly muted laughter for the first 5 or 10 minutes. Once we get over this though he finds his stride; he has sections of material which provides a good base for him to randomly lash out with surreal one liners or asides, while still engaging with his base material. This base material then sets up later throwback references and jokes which is a trait he did very well with the TV show and does well here too.
Much of the material was unfortunately too fresh in my mind from having recently watched the first season of his show, so it had less impact on me hearing the material twice very close together, but it was still funny. His stage delivery is confident and he doesn't let the odd joke that misses affect him, instead he continues and the audience mostly go with him the whole way. Those coming to this retrospectively off the back of his later material (even a year later on Channel 4) will struggle not to compare this show with how much better he would get, but this is not to take anything away from how good he is here. Well worth a look for those that have come to find him since, but the "looking back" aspect does have a bit of an impact on an otherwise very random, creative and funny show.
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- bob the moo
- Nov 15, 2013
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