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Key and sidekick Edward Easton deliver a delightful housebound hour of shtick, backchat and verse
Take a supercilious comedian, let him deliver live comedy without leaving the house and what do you get? Something like this live-stream from Tim Key, in which our host reads a handful of poems from his new book, but spends more time cooking his dinner, bathing and chewing the fat with his pal. “Did I pay £8,” asks one viewer-from-home in the live-chat, “to see a 44-year-old fart in a bath?” At points, I too bridled at the self-indulgence, and felt as if I might be on the receiving end of a prank.
But that is often one’s experience of watching Key – and this, it turns out, is a perfectly logical way to map his shtick on to lockdown reality. It also gets increasingly funny, as you tune into the awkward rhythms of Key’s backchat with co-host and sound guy Edward Easton – a fantastic sketch comic himself, but very much the halting Sidekick Simon here to Key’s Alan Partridge.
