Comedy: the league against tedium

Saturday 28 November 1998 00:02 GMT

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You're unlikely ever to have seen anything like The League Against Tedium before. Played by character comedian Simon Munnery (right), this tinpot dictator sees himself as a superior being to all the scum in the audience. He sneers at them - "I have no need of your tedious applause" - before launching into a string of cod-Nietzschean aphorisms: "we are all brothers. Hence, war." Using a "glove of power", he also projects alienating images onto a big screen. As one critic puts it, Munnery - who also created the eternally right-on Alan Parker, Urban Warrior - is "clearly deranged yet brilliant".

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James Rampton

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