I found this a bit hard going but also am glad I watched it. He appeared to be shitfaced for the q&a.
Yes. Same. A noble experiment. For those who haven't watched it and are wondering how it goes:
The main event is a stage on which Munnery (in a sinister cloak and beaked bucket-helmet) silently writes notes, which he hands to a monkey. The monkey painstakingly wanders up to the camera and presents the note to us (the audience at home but also the 2001 audience in the room who watch on a big screen). The comedy really comes from the long pauses between messages; the monkey's mask and eyes are also very becoming and funny.
He then breaks with it all for some more conventional stand-up, sans-bucket. Some is good (classic Munnery stuff) while some is less good (a Bob Dylan parody that doesn't really work). This is all a bit hard to hear because of VHS quality but the "experiment" was the feature attraction anyway.
At the end of the show, a creepy looking punter goes up and pokes his way through Munnery's cards, which is funny to witness.
Munnery looks amusingly young, though 2001 was of course a long time ago. It was the same year as
Attention Scum!, so this was presumably in the can if not actually aired. But he looks more like he looks in the God and Jesus photos from college.
It's no "Great Comedy" but it was an enjoyably Odd Thing. It was a privilege to get to see it. It was mentioned in the
You Are Nothing book and I never thought we'd get to see it. Until now (because I'll rip it and Chris Evans will surely have done similar) there was only one VHS copy of it in the world and Munnery (who cares not for the past or a legacy) never seemed likely to dig it out or to circulate it. So yeah, great stuff. There were 180 people in the chat room and a nice sense of occasion.
And, yes, he's clearly fucked up on something in the present-day live segments!
