Each comedy festival I always urge people
when buying a ticket to a show for a big name artist to also try their luck on
someone they have never heard of before. Today I followed my on advice and saw
Lewis Spears. They fact that I have not heard of him before might say more
about my demographic than his performance.
From walking in the room it was obvious
that I was the odd one out. I was aged over thirty, was not wearing black and
had no facial piercings. Lewis has a huge online following, he plays to their
sensibilities and they lapped it up. Some of the audience laughed heartily from
beginning to end – one audience member laughed so much she needed a toilet
break!
The blurb on the festival website describes
Lewis as divisive. This is an accurate description. You might call him racist
until he rips into white Australia, you might call him misogynist until he also
tears apart men’s behaviour. You might consider his material homophobic and
anti-sematic until he focuses his attention to Hitler (no spoilers as to how he
addresses both topics in the one bit).
Lewis burst onto the scene after a run in
with A Current Affair, which was
taken hook line and sinker to a prank he pulled off about online trolling. His
take on online trolls and anonymous comments was my absolute favourite part of
the show.
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