The 46-year-old Lee is obsessed with obscure musicians, outsider artists and forgotten writers and he brings some of their off-kilter spirit to standup comedy.
Months away from our next election, we don't have a clue what sort of government we might end up with and which currently obscure player from a minor party could be calling the shots.
A hugely influential writer of short stories, the sheer mass of his extremely uneven body of work – 300 stories, 200 articles, six novels, two plays, and three travel books churned out between 1880 and 1891 – can obscure his genius like clouds around an alp.
Throughout the remainder of the memo, citations, sentences and even whole paragraphs have been stripped out, in some cases to protect genuine sources and methods but in others to obscure the precedents underlying the government's legal arguments.
PRs know that spinning a positive story first and fast can obscure a deeper truth.
Clarkson posted a video apology online saying he had tried to obscure the word but that his efforts "weren't quite good enough".
The nominees range from the nearly famous to the belovedly obscure, including London singer Arlissa, who recently recorded with Nas, Dublin rock band Kodaline and Toronto rapper the Weeknd, who almost won Canada's top music prize back in 2011.
They also offer an insight into how traumatising the Kennedy assassinations were at the time – something we can almost obscure with hindsight, revisionism, and conspiracy theories.
