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Is this people we don't like? Oh well
Anyway I've always been quite into Paul Foot's stuff. Went to see him at Leicester Sq a few weeks back, i think it was one of the early goes at his new routine 'Dissolve.'. Had bought the ticket AGES ago. He came on and did the sort of stuff he does, but sort of teased that the beginning stuff wasn't the actual routine, this is bonus, and the real routine was coming up. It felt like he was playing with us and there was no Real Routine. And that sensation was funny and good. And the material he was using was good. There was quite a pointed bit about pedo priests at one stage. Then he moved on for some more silly, unfocussed, where-is-this-going stuff.
Then, all of a sudden, the funny Paul Foot sort of receded. And it got very serious. Somehow, as this developed, he managed to turn this last bit, the real routine, back into being funny, via a seriously cathartic and dreadful story which I won't detail. It was a very hard listen, with an inspiring element about healing oneself.
I have been in bits ever since, it was absolutely mind-meltingly dark and good and awful and very very emotional.
If you get a chance, go and see this routine. Genuinely life-changing.