Writer and humourist Fran Lebowitz was famous in the 1970s and 1980s and has now become famous again thanks to Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed Netflix documentary all about her, Pretend It’s A City. Her following is now as devoted as any boy band fan club. She might be a brilliant wordsmith but she prompted a virtual ovation at the Theatre Royal just by saying, "Hi."
While Lebowitz is not a stand-up, she has the natural cadences of a classic acerbic New York comic and whatever subject she talked about, however serious, tended to include laughter. Sitting in an armchair, sporting trademark jeans and cowboy boots, she despaired of America’s gun obsession, describing an appearance in Texas during Covid where nobody wore masks but everyone had firearms.
