Songs in the key of laugh

How did musical comedy get such an awful reputation? And why, suddenly, is it a stadium filler? We talk to the funniest people who can hold a tuneI saw Stewart Lee perform the other week. Lee is loved by his audience, and is a standup comedian at the top of his game – but even he felt bound to apologise at the end of the show, when he announced he was going to sing a song. "No one thinks it's a good sign," said Lee, "when a comedian picks up a guitar."Old prejudices die hard, and Lee is p...

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