Comedians rarely repeat material by their peers. But plenty of comics are referencing each other at this year's fringe " for good and illComedy has no equivalent to the cover version; comics seldom appropriate one another's material " give or take Will Mars's Joke Thieves format, and Stewart Lee's droll fake plan to perform a Michael McIntyre routine verbatim. But there are other ways of paying homage " or getting a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PM on August 20, 2015