"we walked out after about 15 minutes without hardly cracking a smile. People around were laughing, but, crucially, they were also reciting the lines as they went, so they obviously already knew his stuff and they knew what was coming."

Monty Python fans had that effect too some years ago...


In the 1970s there was "The Portsmouth Symphonia"... they would run an ad in the paper giving the date they had hired the hall for, the playlist (all Classical!) and say, BYO instrument, music...

I'm not making this up, you know!