A mathematically inclined PR person subsequently informed me that in terms of its average star rating, statistically it was the best-reviewed show ever in the history of the Fringe. You can prove anything with facts. After the Fringe, I hit the road with the same set in the company of Steve Carlin, a mysteriously under-exposed and puritanically rational Scot given to the driest of one-liners and the most enjoyably torturous extended riffs, and we split the driving around twice as many venues as on the Stand-Up Comedian tour, playing longer runs in the small rooms and one-nighters in bigger venues than before. I still rarely did anywhere larger than 300 seats, but the Soho Theatre run of ’90s Comedian was double the length of the previous year’s, and Arthur Smith, an inspirational performer and the stepfather of Alternative Comedy, called me ‘the eminence grise’ of stand-up. And yet it proved nearly impossible to find someone willing to film the show for a DVD release. For several reasons, I really wanted to record ’90s Comedian.
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