How I Escaped My Certain Fate
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How I Escaped My Certain Fate

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eBook - ePub

How I Escaped My Certain Fate

About this book

Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face!

In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making musical, Jerry Springer: The Opera. Nine years later, How I Escaped My Certain Fate details his return to live performance, and the journey that took him from an early retirement to his position as the most critically acclaimed stand-up in Britain, the winner of BAFTAs and British Comedy Awards, and the affirmation of being rated the 41st best stand up ever.

Here is Stewart Lee's own account of his remarkable comeback, told through transcripts of the three legendary full-length shows that sealed his reputation. Astonishingly frank and detailed in-depth notes reveal the inspiration and inner workings of his act. With unprecedented access to a leading comedian's creative process, this book tells us just what it was like to write these shows, develop the performance and take them on tour. How I Escaped My Certain Fate is everything we have come to expect from Stewart Lee: fiercely intelligent, unsparingly honest and very, very funny.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780571254828
Edition
0
Subtopic
Television

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction: Alternative Comedian
  6. 1 : Stand-Up Comedian
  7. 2 : 2004–5
  8. 3 : ’90s Comedian
  9. 4 : 2005–7
  10. 5 : 41st Best Stand-Up Ever
  11. Afterword
  12. Appendices
  13. I: Music Theatre
  14. II: English Hecklers in New Zealand
  15. III: Derek Bailey/Ruins/Aristocrats
  16. IV: Johnny Vegas – Instrument of God
  17. V: An Improvised Discussion about Russell Brand on Big Brother’s Little Brother
  18. VI: Pestival Set, May 2007
  19. VII: ‘I’ll Only Go If You Throw Glass’
  20. VIII: Did Tony Blair Plagiarise Stewart Lee?
  21. Relevant Discography
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Index
  24. About the Author
  25. By the Same Author
  26. Copyright