“Any kind of genre, any kind of form, it’s never more interesting than when you’re kind of breaking it in some way, or dismantling it.” – Northampton magus Alan Moore in conversation with Stewart Lee about Lee’s collection of ‘messed around with’ Observer columns, ‘Content Provider’, which with Moore’s forthcoming ‘Jerusalem’ are going to be two wonderful reads this autumn.
Perhaps improbably, I find so much in what these guys say that unwittingly sheds light on the Jesus-story which I try to illuminate on a weekly basis. Explaining why he decided to subvert the standard columnist form, Lee writes: “The clown theorist Gaulier had once told my friend, the theatre-maker Rob Thirtle, that one should perform comedy as if the next action would result in your death. I decided to write like I was trying to get myself sacked.”
All this is excellent commentary on every one of those parables of his, and next Sunday’s gospel on what Jesus does a sabbath (Luke 13.10-17).
Moore / Lee conversation clip: http://bit.ly/2aWtOXX
Jerusalem: http://amzn.to/2bkdR33
Content Provider: http://amzn.to/2bnG4Sz
Perhaps improbably, I find so much in what these guys say that unwittingly sheds light on the Jesus-story which I try to illuminate on a weekly basis. Explaining why he decided to subvert the standard columnist form, Lee writes: “The clown theorist Gaulier had once told my friend, the theatre-maker Rob Thirtle, that one should perform comedy as if the next action would result in your death. I decided to write like I was trying to get myself sacked.”
All this is excellent commentary on every one of those parables of his, and next Sunday’s gospel on what Jesus does a sabbath (Luke 13.10-17).
Moore / Lee conversation clip: http://bit.ly/2aWtOXX
Jerusalem: http://amzn.to/2bkdR33
Content Provider: http://amzn.to/2bnG4Sz
