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I've just finished watching Stewart Lee's '90's comedian' DVD which I ordered from a site linked to by his website. 
frontI haven't yet checked, but according to most information advertised, you probably can't get the DVD from anywhere but 
Go Faster Stripe.

  

I'm on my third Guiness after my first San Miguel right now and I'm feeling just as adrenaline-filled as I imagine I might be having been to an actual comedy night or club. This lovely sensation I have probably become quite a junky for is thanks to the DVD more than the alcohol.

90's Comedian has really managed something I would never expect from a DVD of...anything. The rush is something like that of watching Cloverfield at a large cinema screen, where you know you're not actually underneath a screaming, roaring beast as it stampeeds past you, defying your concept of so much of what you think you know but looks to be just as real as anything you have ever touched. It's also a kind of intelligent freak show but one you can agree with, scientifically presented and knowingly implying your intellect to be at least that of it's own. Sounds kind of a boy's club hand shake of wanky pompossity but I think the people who watch far too much comedy, it might just be.

The gig starts off much as you'd imagine his early alternative acts may have began. Not everyone gets it. By the end you will be exhausted. Every single one of you.

I'm going to stop describing the actual gig events now before I describe too much of what is necessary for it to be brilliant. You will watch it more than once but this shouldn't be your first introduction to what happens.

 
The extras are short but show Stewart Lee as more approachable and happily conversational in funny informative chit chat than his sharp dry silence-surrounded wit may usually imply. Also, he is beggining to look like an older uncle for some reason, in my eyes. It's endearing but also worrying to anybody like me who wishes idols and themselves to be everlasting. I found an easter egg and perhaps there are more but I'm not going to delve any deeper. This is too much a gem for anyone interested to not have already ordered a copy or perhaps watched it online.

 
For the first time, I'd like to give this a score too, if ironically, as I'm more inclined to dislike the idea of adhering to a system first introduced to me for spelling tests and never showing any further subjective insight since.

90's Comedian   --  5/5

Subjectively, however, I love it and am jealous of it's content and in awe of Lee's nerve in the last 1/3 of the act.

  

Bottles of hello and goodbye at you all,

  

Geronimo,

  

- Daniel

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