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[diamond_geyser]

Cor, Brian Logan, what an extraordinarily well-written article on musical comedy you have penned for The Guardian.

The stick with which musical comedy is often whacked is that it's neither one thing nor the other - that pairing jokes with tunes is a smokescreen for weak material. That's often true. A rhyme and a melody alone can't turn base comedy

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[weaselspoon]

Indeedly, I concur, and the suchlike.

My own comedy song attempts are definitely, unfortunately, a smokescreen for weak material. But then I'm in the company of Iannucci...

[diamond_geyser]

But would anyone ever quite this cunty about your onstage offerings?

[weaselspoon]

Ahhhh Ding Dang Ding Dang Dong.

I don't think they'd care enough about me to bother. *sniff*

[diamond_geyser]

Your hair needs porpentination. Particularly enraging verticality is CATNIP to occasional Guardian newspaper journalousts.

[catbo]

I don't think he manages to give Mr B due respect, but apart from that, it's very very good, isn't it?

[catbo]

also, is anything else on that night? I'd like to go...

[diamond_geyser]

There be Easter funtimes. The threat of DOKTOR COCA COLA MCDONALDS is going to have to be overcome with some quite considerable persuasion.

[toriar]

Argh. BAD FLASHBACK!
I went to see two - TWO! - Comedy Shuffles recorded back-to-back once. We got a free little plastic cup of cheap wine. I needed stronger drugs. It was painful in every way. You couldn't even sit down. Said 'Doktor' was on. Several times He muffed it once and looked like he was going to cry. That might have made me laugh, but I was too near tears myself by that stage.

[toriar]

I'm a bit baffled by him being baffled by Tom Lehrer, though. I'd never have put 'Tom Lehrer' and 'pop music' in the same sentence. How can you not know Tom Lehrer? 'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park'? I'm changing my MySpace music to it now, thinking about it. Ah, Spring...