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[Kim Harrison-Lavoie]

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:59:30 +0100 Stuart McHugh 
<smchugh@...> wrote:

> From: Stuart McHugh <smchugh@...>
> 
> >No, Lee and Herring are geniuses of our time, I was 
> referring to their >"lazy comedy slags" section where they 
> expose poor joke formulas such as >"...and they were just 
> the teachers ah", "...I was 28 years old ah" and >the 
> classic "...and then I got off the bus ah". Peel once 
> mentioned them >in his column if that gives it any 
> relevance... It must just be me, in fact IMO Peel's taste 
> in comedy, with the exception of the Fast Show (oh, ok, and 
> HMHB), always seems to be for stuff which doesn't quite hit 
> the mark - Absolutely was really patchy (though 
> occasionally touched by genius) and wasn't that Royston 
> Vasey thing another Peel favourite?
> I've laughed at Lee and Herring in the past but I saw their 
> show the other evening and thought it was lamentable, nary 
> a titter. The new Hale and Pace, anyone?
> Though to be fair, they gave Gail Porter a much-deserved slagging.
> 
> S
> 

Stewart Lee writes album reviews for the Sunday Times.