"Soon he is constructing a
sketch around a live on-stage phone call to a Pizza Hut in Oman in a surreal search for Osama bin Laden, and getting members of the audience to prove his hunch that even the dumbest Brit is smarter than the cleverest American. Neither sketch works, but the daring is the thing. It would spoil the surprise to reveal what he gets the audience to do with their Nectar loyalty cards, but symbolically it is the greatest line-crossing of the lot.
Politics probably brings in most of Moore's audience. But his show owes more to the traditional comic repertoire than you might expect. Moore may look as though he has just shambled in from the bar to give you a few funny political rants, but do not be deceived.
The man is a stand-up comic in the grand tradition " Bold's added at my disgression
Quoting for your own purposes never quite works out right, eh ? Especially when the quote is more than a bit out of context.