Thursday 4 September 2008

A joke Patrick Kielty could steal - and did

In his show ‘90s Comedian’ Stewart Lee, affronted by the fact that Joe Pasquale had nicked one of his jokes, responded to those who attacked him for ‘Jerry Springer: The Musical’ with a long-winded and deliberately obscene anecdote-joke that Pasquale certainly couldn’t steal.

So it was odd to watch last night’s installment of ‘Live At The Apollo’ on Dave* and witness another comic no-mark Patrick Kielty parroting Lee’s joke about feeling nostalgic for the good old days of the IRA, “gentlemen terrorists” who always had the courtesy to ring up the authorities to give advance warning of bomb attacks…

* Yes, I’m aware I’ve just outed myself as too much of an armchair fan these days. That said, I am going to see some stand-up in the flesh tonight, for the first time in ages…

1 comment:

Ash said...

Actually it was one of Michael Redmond's jokes that Stewart Lee accused Joe Pasquale of stealing.

Mind you, I'd love to see Pasquale trying to do the "vomiting into the gaping anus of Christ" material to the assembled mums and dads of TV-land.