The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91953 Message #1755090
Posted By: Grab
07-Jun-06 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: What recording cracks you up?
Subject: RE: What recording cracks you up?
Don, I'll reserve judgement then until I've seen him again. But I'm not going to make any effort to do so (or spend any extra).
Only seen him once, a couple of years back, and 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. "Riding" the punchlines only works up to a point, and we could have nipped out and got a quick half in the time between lines. Snuffy's point about *reading* his verses is also very relevant - if I ever see an alleged pro on stage having to read what he's doing line by line from a book, then forget it, I'm out the door (and that's even more important for storytellers or poets). That contributed to destroying any connection to what he was doing.
I forgot another very talented man too - Jake Thackray. Again, too many good songs to pick a favourite.
Graham.