We finally completed the big Seinfeld watch earlier this year, so thought it was time to actually show Alasdair some of the stand-up. This wasn’t the special I’d have picked to start, but it was the special that was available on Netflix. A bit too heavy on the non-standup stuff (although the shot of the street filled with his legal pad notes was quite something, and you’ve got to admire the man’s work ethic), and obviously the premise of the show was the pre-Seinfeld jokes that got him to that point, so nothing groundbreaking. He’s more absurdist than he gets credit for, the observations for which he’s famous often being springboards into their own little worlds.