Stewart Lee vehicle tonight
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- kelpie0
hmmm, conflicted.
On the one hand a lot of his material is fucking hilarious, his delivery is great, but in each of the episodes so far he's had a portion of his act where I think personally he's taken his repetition thing too far and over stretched it. I'm laughing at the start of the routine but I'm a little embarrassed and looking at my watch by the end of it.
If he cut that out, it'd be genuinely brilliant.
- fiesta0
I quite like how it went a bit wrong, but yeah he could have cut about 5 minutes off the delboy bit
- JerseyRaindog0
I know the guy who played Trigger in the brilliant festival scene. He's a Jersey boy.
- Wolfboy0
Cresp, I agree with that.
I once saw him in a comedy tent at a festival and I guess those aren't the best crowds for a comedian to play and his set wasn't going great. So he just started describing what the audience reactions were and did it for about 5 minutes - started off by just saying "just a handful of people laugh at that last joke over there to the left of the stage... and now more people laugh at me pointing that out than actually laughed at the joke.... the laughter has died down and we can hear people at the back of the tent starting to talk again and now a pocket of people are laughing at me pointing this out.....
When he started he had a smattering of laughter but by the end he had the whole place in the palm of his hand. The repetition came with him pointing out every few moments that all we were doing was laughing at a man describing the reactions of some people in a tent.
I think he is a brilliant comedian.
- moth0
Looks like it's apparently filmed in 1 take too which accounts for the fuck-ups in a 'recorded' show. It would be very easy to ruin it by doing numerous takes and leaving the crowd bored of hearing the same joke and pretending to laugh.
On the whole I think it's great.
- kelpie0
not quite I don't think moth, if you watched the interview with him nad armando iannuci that ran on the red button after the first show it had an outtake where he forgot a line in a joke about Chris Moyles book (wicked routine), so I think they restart bits at times.
Not slating him, btw, I think he's great
- calculator0
i watched it for the first time this week. there was some really funny stuff.
but i seriously didn't get the repetition stuff. he did it at the start with a small one liner - repeated it once, at which point i thought "what was that?".
then the delboy thing was just fucking ridiculous. it was like watching a train crash full of your most embarrassing memories.
make the joke, move on to the village scene with the giant delboy. it could have been the funniest thing on tv this year!
- BaskerviIle0
The interviews on the red button after the show with Armando Ianucci are great, they're almost funnier than the show itself.
I saw him live last year and he did the whole Del boy falls through the bar bit, and ended up on the floor like he did on the tv show. The repetition thing is something he's known for. I think it's amazing. To take something that far and really push people's limits, making everyone a bit uncomfortable.
here's one of the red button interviews from last week:
- the bit about Adrian Chiles is hilariousBaskerviIle
- stab your pillows ha ha ha.chossy
- moth0
Surely the repetition bit perfectly illustrated his point about Dell Boy's bar fall being voted for year after year after year.
All I know I was that I was in stitches, and I'm a moody joyless cunt.
- Khurram0
Opinioated fucker in't he?
- Horp0
I haven't watched any of the shows but I do think he's spot on and funny as. I love that whole Jimmy Hill / Garry Linaker skit on page one.
- fiesta0
how can that youtube clip be unavailable in my country when I'm in fucking England. Wanted to see the red button bits because they were not on iPlayer
- BaskerviIle0
on iplayer for you fiesta:
http://www.tvscoop.tv/2009/03/ar…
- calculator0
the most ironic thing about the delboy sketch, was that the old delboy clip (where he falls through the bar and trigger makes a serious face) was funnier than the whole stewart lee show.
- BaskerviIle0
Well the last show was last night. I really enjoyed this series. All other comedy seems a bit facile by comparison. The final show on religion was great. Here's some from youtube: epidsodes 3, 4 and 5
EP 3:
EP 4
EP 5
- kelpie0
again I loved the stand up, but after watching the whole series, I have to ask what the fuck they were thinking with the sketch material? it is painfully unfunny 99% of the time.
I love that fact that he's both funny and clever, always a good combo, but then I think sometimes he gets a bit TOO clever and it becomes self indulgent and overly mannered, but I'll forgive him that - but then the sketches are so knowing, mannered and indulgently intellectual as to be rendered completely mirth-free, which is not advised for a comedy half hour, imo.
overall I'd say a 6 or 7 out of 10, when it could easily have been a 9
- if it was just him. its not as if he doesn't have a half hour's worth of material weekly surelykelpie
- I agree about the sketches, I'd rather it was just his standup.
But I think his analysis of his jokes is the funniest stuffBaskerviIle - I love it too, he just runs an unavoidable risk of overdoing it in my opinion. Cant express fully in words my hatred of the sketches thoughkelpie
- sketches though.kelpie
- moth0
You're such a joyless individual kelpie. You just bring me right off my happy-go-lucky buzz.
- JerseyRaindog0
I saw Stewart Lee perform at the Jersey Opera house last night. I'm still sore from laughing so much. He is a genius.
- Yup.. agree to that one. Really enjoyed last night. He's on a whole different level really...moprints
- Wolfboy0
Has anyone heard anything about a 2nd series?
I can't believe the shite that is on the BEEB at the moment. Has anyone sat through an entire episode of The Persuasionists? It's a black hole of a show, sucking everything good from the world around it. Pound for pound (taking into account the cast and people involved), it's one of the worst sit-coms ever made. And yes, I'm putting it up alongside some of the sub-Carry On bollocks from the 70s.
We need Stewart Lee back on the TV as an antidote.