Alex Agnew: DVD Interesting Times

Collector's item (this DVD has never been released in stores before)

Anyone who thought Alex Agnew would enjoy a well-deserved rest after Larger than Life is mistaken. From September 2011 onward, Alex geared up again to air his opinions on the world. The show premiered in February 2012. And it's become a dark show because Alex is deeply irritated by the Big Brother feeling that surrounds us today. The government constantly deciding what's good or bad for us, the common people who think they can make or break people, media watchers who steer us in certain directions. It's about the deranged form of social control that strangely enough goes hand in hand with a form of apathy. We are no longer Generation X, but Generation Nothing. We have so little to do that the lives of others become our entertainment. That's why the title of this show became "Interesting Times." Named after the curse the Chinese pronounce on someone they wish ill: "May you live in interesting times."

The Press about Interesting Times

And it must be said, this is perhaps the most complete work Agnew has ever made. Typical in style, more of the same, but broader and more intelligent. Because Agnew is who he is: born for the stage, a natural storyteller, a man with a body of elastic, a shouter who can handle all registers and voices, and above all, someone with the gift of firing arrows at anything and anyone and getting away with it. An audience pleaser with a sting. And that for two hours, without boring. "Interesting Times" confirms what we already knew: Alex Agnew is a thoroughbred with big balls. He continues on the same theme, but he does so with new threads, still sharp in texture, but with a bit more color. The New Agnew. These are interesting times. (VRT-De Redactie 16-02-2012)

But this man has to say what's on his mind, what bothers him about the world. That's the task he's set for himself as a stand-up comedian, and he's unwilling to compromise on it. (De Standaard – February 18, 2012)

"That's how incredibly hard the mindfuck he ultimately commits is. Agnew doubted whether he could still be funny. Well, he's become more mature, tougher, more venomous, and more cunning. In a setting that depicts the Apocalypse in a comic-book way, this tattooed superpower is like the crater, ground zero. Need we say more?!" (DeMorgen 20-02-2012)