How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee

Author:Stewart Lee [Lee, Stewart]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780571254828
Publisher: Faber

And I don’t know if you know, but the Catholic Church are very worried about you all reading The Da Vinci Code. And in fact, in January last year, the Vatican actually issued an official statement reminding Dan Brown readers that the books are largely fictional and full of historically un verifiable information.*

* This joke is calibrated to fail. Nine times out of ten it wouldn’t get much of a laugh, and if it did it would only be from a minority of hardcore, atheist, intellectual pseuds, predisposed to equating the stories of the Bible with the idea of ‘fictional and historically unverifiable information’. But it did the job of further dividing the audience just as they were usually starting to become a workable unit, and thereby cranking up the tension, amplifying the sense of unfolding drama in the room, the narrative of my own failure to master the entire audience that plays along underneath the actual through-line of the material. It also allows me, in the next sentence, to appear totally in control by not being fazed by the failure of this joke, and to assure them that they have nothing to worry about and that they will all be onside again soon.

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