This Edinburgh festival and TV favourite takes postmodern standup to a dangerously funny new levelYear: 2012The set-up: It's almost its own genre now, self-referential comedy. In the early 1990s, when Eddie Izzard would remark to himself, "Ooh, no one laughed at that joke, mate," there was still a sense that it was very daring " and refreshing " for a standup comedian to risk their authority like this. And he only ga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AM on August 2, 2013