The Secret Reviewer #68: The Bleep Test
Every month our clandestine critic reveals the murky truths behind that infamous trade, and live comedy generally. This month: Is swearing ever big or clever?
What's the greatest televised stand-up set, ever? I'd go for ITV's An Audience With Billy Connolly], from 1985, partly because it also features one of the great random audiences - Ringo Starr! Bob Hoskins! Wincey Willis! - but chiefly it's just peak Connolly, with a perfectly-chosen setlist, and some deeply memorable swearing.
Very ahead of his time was Billy, when it came to language. Anti-progressiveness moral guardian Mary Whitehouse was in her pomp then (it...
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