Julian Dutton
- Actor and writer
Press clippings Page 2
Stewart Lee: A revolution in stand-up
In a collection of critical essays published in 1929 as a prolegomena to the appearance of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Our Exagmination round his Factification of Incamination of Work in Progress, Samuel Beckett begins his contribution with the words "With Joyce, form is content." With Stewart Lee, comedy is content: Joyce's novel is a novel about a novel, Lee's comedy comedy about comedy.
Julian Dutton, The Huffington Post, 11th April 2014Reflections on Bob Larbey
As a chronicler of the human condition he was a leading member of that great pantheon of 'light entertainment' writers who - during an extraordinary period - created a true National Theatre of Britain.
Julian Dutton, The Huffington Post, 6th April 2014Why Stewart Lee is wrong about slapstick
In his TV series Comedy Vehicle Lee pours scorn on slapstick by berating Del Boy's fall through the bar for being voted number one in a Funniest TV Momentclip show: "Is that really what we've come to, Britain? Del Boy falling through a bar, and Trigger making a face?!" Significantly, many of the other top clips were also sight gags - Cleese's silly walks, Dawn French collapsing into a puddle... It seems that 80 years since the advent of sound technology we still favour the sight gag over the verbal. Why?
Julian Dutton, The Huffington Post, 3rd March 2014The 100 Funniest People On Twitter
We asked our 75,000 followers to nominate the Tweeters that regularly made them laugh - the ones that were frequently mentioned got added to the pile.
The Poke, 7th December 2002