Tim Key review – banter, bathing and terrific poems about our new normal

Angel Comedy onlineKey and sidekick Edward Easton deliver a delightful housebound hour of shtick, backchat and verseTake a supercilious comedian, let him deliver live comedy without leaving the house and what do you get? Something like this live-stream from Tim Key, in which our host reads a handful of poems from his new book, but spends more time cooking his dinner, bathing and chewing the fat with his pal. “Did I pay £8,” asks one viewer-from-home in the live-chat, “to see a 44-year-old fart in a bath?” At points, I too bridled at the self-indulgence, and felt as if I might be on the receiving end of a prank.But that is often one’s experience of watching Key – and this, it turns out, is a perfectly logical way to map his shtick on to lockdown reality. It also gets increasingly funny, as you tune into the awkward rhythms of Key’s backchat with co-host and sound guy Edward Easton – a fantastic sketch comic himself, but very much the halting Sidekick Simon here to Key’s Alan Partridge. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/feb/01/tim-key-review-angel-comedy-livestream #comedy #tim_key #comedy #culture #stage