After my blog yesterday about a famous comedian who accidentally told exactly the same jokes twice in one routine, comes a story of someone who did the same thing intentionally.
Tony De Meur aka Ronnie Golden Facebooked me:
“A good few years back, I was watching Lee Cornes compering the Saturday late show at the Comedy Store. He was bored, so said he’d open the second half with a straight repeat of a routine he’d performed earlier. The bemused crowd watched in total silence as he animatedly trawled through familiar material while all the comics at the back shrieked with helpless laughter!”
To which Michael Redmond responded:
“I remember that, too. He did his ‘tramps’ routine twice… bloody hilarious.”
And Brian Mulligan of the late lamented Skint Video was there that night, too. He says Lee Cornes was “a true comic displaying bravery and invention”.
In an interview in The Times last year, Sean Lock said of Lee Cornes: “He’s not very well known but he is my main influence… He’s the comedians’ comedian. He used to be very unpredictable, which is a great skill in a comedian, not knowing where to go next.”
Alas, like many other good comedians, Lee no longer performs as a stand-up.
SO IT GOES - John Fleming's blog 
Lee used to do that all th time. He would often wait until someone in the audience pointed it out and then he would berate them for five minutes for letting him do it. He was brilliant.
John L