Comedy: Paul Foot – By the Yard

Date: August 26th, 2009 Author: Martin Walker
Category(s): Comedy: Paul Foot - By the Yard
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Comedy
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Paul Foot - By the Yard
Underbelly

Oxford graduate Paul Foot doesn’t tell jokes, as much as have an occasional idea.  He bumbles on the stage, sees a stool that apparently shouldn’t be there, and then with fumbling and pin-point accurate observational humour makes us all laugh about it for fifteen minutes.  I say all, perhaps I should say about two thirds of this capacity audience.  A sizable minority sat stony faced during, well, not just this routine but the entire show.

Foot’s appearance is ill-fitting and funny.  The clothes are wrong.  His hair defies description.  It’s quite old-fashioned, but the way he looks and indeed, everything he does, is designed to make you laugh.  The fact that some don’t get it simply makes it funnier.

Suck it and see.  You’ll either become a fan for life and join his growing band of connoisseurs, or you won’t.

MW