10.11.09

Waiting for Godot as BBC Talent Show

Stewart Lee imagines the gameshow potential for Samuel Beckett's play

In a critique of Saturday evening television, British comedian Stewart Lee examines and dismisses the format of the BBC talent show. After condemning Any Dream Will Do, a series premised upon a nationwide casting call for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Lee imagines adapting Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot for the popular prime-time format.

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