Lee Evans: Monsters

Surprised at many saying this is one of his worst, I disagree.

XL and Roadrunner were both really good, but this one is equal with those or very close to it.

I'd have to really analyse each one to truly separate them, but this is Lee in his usual funny self. Definitely worth watching if you like Lee Evans or comedy shows in general.

Plus, there's not many of his shows available to watch, especially in good quality, so I would definitely not dismiss this one. Iconic in that it was his last show too, and he has very few public appearances since. IMO he's the greatest comedian ever, no-one else does comedy like him.

While not as good as his other shows Lee still performs better material than most comedian's in there prime from his physical comedy and endless energy to just his unique laugh Lee Evans is a very funny man who has been making people laugh for such a long time you wonder how he hasn't ran out of material at this stage.

So...this was it. What turned out (for now at least) to be the swansong, the final tour from Lee Evans.

Ok. And?

I never found the man funny, save perhaps his performance in the big screen film 'Mousehunt', where actually he and the very talented (and sadly underrated Nathan Lane) formed a good comedy duo in the Laurel and Hardy mode.

His physicality is great, he's a good physical comedian/stand-up, but his material never grabbed me and his overreliance on the use of particularly the 'F' word certainly never did.

So yes, if this was it then I say ok. We aren't short of stand-up comedians to take his place.

Lee Evans became one of the world's biggest comedians, and for good reason. Lee Evan's tours have been extremely successful because they are crazy, energetic, and most importantly, hilarious. The Roadrunner tour being another example of this, but Monsters feels tired.

Monsters feels like Evans is running out of humour to deliver to his audience, there are some really funny moments, but they are few and far between, not as frequent as previous tours.

Evans is as energetic as usual, and the formula of the comedy is unchanged, but there's less humour and more talk, less hysterics and more casual laughing, everything feels more topical at the expense of a lot of the humour.

The Monsters tour is less impressive than most of Evan's previous tours, the Big, XL, and Roadrunner tours we're much funnier, and kept my interest for a lot longer, but because it still features classic Lee Evans, it's still worth trying out, but if you're expecting humour on the level of Big, XL or Roadrunner, Monsters will leave you disappointed.

He talks like crazy, it seems like somebody put Duracell batteries in him and he just keeps on going and going and ... He gets them switched out in the halftime, and then he gets on and on again, I think he said something funny every minute and he is just like a fountain on stage, especially with jokes, but it must be very hot walking back and forth doing various impressions, because this guy sweats like someone on holiday somewhere really warm :)

He is a good performer and really has a good repertoire of funny voices, weird characters and strange incidents, he mixes it all up with stuff that seems to be made up a long the way, depending on how the audience reacts. It is very entertaining.