Ed Davey has announced a 100-night residency at the London Palladium to showcase his comedy talents, it has been announced.
The news comes on the back of Davey’s barnstorming PMQ’s performance this week, where he delivered a zinger of a gag about how in an era of cuts in defence spending, Tony Blair’s long form essay criticising the Labour Party was an example of ‘drone warfare”.
‘It was like listening to Dudley Moore or Bill Hicks in their prime’, said one MP. ‘Once the laughter and tears subsided, it was no surprise to see Ed’s agent from Avalon come into the chamber with a deal for Ed.’
Davey’s show ‘Ed’s you win, Tales you lose’, is being billed as a mix between old school variety stand up, Jimmy Carr-style confrontational cultural commentary, and Stewart Lee-esque deconstruction.
‘I’m not saying my mother in law is fat’, quipped Davey. ‘She’s really not but her ongoing use of Ozempic does raise important questions about the long-term funding of weight-loss drugs on the NHS’.
‘There was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman’ continued Davey. ‘Under a devolved government structure, it is vital that our honourable Welsh friends, as well as Metropolitan mayors are represented in all formal consultative machinery of the state’.
‘This is the natural next step for us as a party’ said a Lib Dem spokesperson. ‘After all, our ‘Liberal Democrats Winning Here’ placards and signs at local elections have been causing hilarity for months’.