Wrong. Jimmy Carr follows Alistair Crowley's 'backward mijak' by laughing on the inhale rather than the exhale, which, I'm guessing, is supposed to suck out the energy of the victims, sorry, audience, or simply be subconciously discordant and baffling to keep them under his 'spell'. Well, at least that's what they're saying on Mumsnet.
Wow, now look at you@Zain Alvaro and @Harrison Mayo, here you are in a Steward Lee comment section of his *WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT* routine, having your very own, unique little thing going on, haven't you!? That, gentlemen, is so meta, i feel inclined to respectfully tip my hat to you both,... if i didn't detest this sort of desperate clammy spamming *so much*. But, do tell: How many people did you lure into your Instawaste, from this particular comment section? How do S.Lee fans rate on the gullibility scale?
I know Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a tool to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly lost the password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me
Oh man that Ricky Gervais call. I actually heard about Stewart Lee because Ricky Gervais recommended him. Still, that line was ice cold. What a legend.
@@Dionysos640 Ok, "hates" is too strong a word! I didn't mean one hated the other *person* but how Stu likes to skewer Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Alan Macintyre, Roy Chubby Brown, and the rest. I'm sure they professionally admire each other. Just that many comedians have a routine of shtick which begs for parody. Funnily, has anyone ever done a parody of Stewart Lee !?!?! He leaves himself wide open! Methinks it would be a hard act to do because he is sooooo unpredictable. I find Gervais and many others very predictable, formulaic.
A friend of mine is a WB supporter- small world. Out of pity for him I did offer to trek bare foot through the snow to the Hawthorns to convince the chairman and VIPs, as Joan of Arc convinced the dauphin of her divine mission, that i was the right person to lead that sporting band in the hour of need, but i had to reluctantly concede that times have changed and no longer is there faith in such miracles.
This is a first! A Stewart Lee video and not a single comment about how a person who isn't Stew has failed in their attempt to maintain a publicly acceptable level of attractiveness in their appearance.
Exactly. Why is Robert De Niro's acting so shit, now? That face he always pulls, as though he has just crapped himself. Was he always so rubbish, or is it just the roles/films he chooses? I thought he was okay in Sleepers. The Deer Hunter. Raging Bull. Taxi Driver. Heat. Good fellas. Casino. Banarama wrote a song about him. Where are they, now? 🍌
@@StratsRUs Who, me? No. I think genius is so overused a word it has lost all meaning or currency, so even if I did think that I;d be doing him no favours calling him it.
How right he was about Jimmy Carr. Although now Carr goes on to explain that he told the offensive joke because it was offensive and people should remember it was offensive.. after they've laughed, of course.
@@petermorris4941 Perhaps because they were secretly aware that the exact same accusation can be aimed at them. I severely doubt anyone has ever arrived at a Stewart Lee gig as a Right winger and left thinking "You know what, I might give being a Liberal a try". We are all pretty entrenched nowadays.
Started watching British Stand Up comedy in 2010 as a Teen with the entry level likes of Russell Howard and Lee Nelson... I'm so happy to have progressed to the absolute premium that is Stewart Lee!
I could just say fucking genius but that's not enough. Its so so much fucking genius that my last is comment rendered pointless and ultimately retractable. So block that
Far be it from me to take issue with Stewart Lee's grasp of English comprehension, but 'irrespective of context' is not the same as 'context free.' The former means 'regardless of the context in which it is used' - the latter means 'without context.' I imagine Stewart Lee is perfectly well aware of this, and in fact, forcing this subtle misunderstanding on the audience is a passive aggressive reference to his imagined intellectual superiority - the prick!
@@BigyetiTechnologies Is that a reference to ejaculate? I imagine Stewart Lee has fond memories of when that was a viable and enjoyable option, rather than a half-hearted and unsatisfactory affair issuing from what was almost an erection. If his comedy is anything to go by!
Stewart's technique of 'turn to camera to break the 4th wall while accusing the audience who don't agree with him of not getting it and not being as smart as other sections of the room' is his version of Jimmy Carr's shrug.
Was he accusing as much as reflecting? Tend to think he’s generally ethical. Maybe you’re right. Maybe he was just being defensive and blaming the audience. It was edgy. Do white people need to play with racist taboo words? Is it freedom of speech or privilege taking? You made me think.
@@MrLtia1234 This is a fair point. I love Lee's work but he is certainly open to criticism and there is only so much clever 'meta' comedy and hiding behind persona's that can be sustained. Since the time of this routine, it has unravelled somewhat. He is right here about Carr though.
In a sense, you're right. But it's worth thinking a level deeper - what does the technique signify, or aim to achieve? Carr's faux-naive shrug leaves the unspoken hanging, and the audience's reaction unquestioned. It hints towards "I'm just saying what we're all thinking". Stewart deconstructs the situation, forcing the audience to consider why they find some subjects to be acceptable targets for humour, and some words to be taboo, and some not.
If you haven't, you should watch the show where he inexplicably ends up in a room with Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis CK (pre-wanking in front of people who don't want to be wanked at, controversy) all discussing stand-up. He's so out of his league, he must have paid them all to be there. Also, that clip from his Gary Shandling interview, is gold. He's such a big-'ead
i don't know who's been around the longest but i've always felt that gervais copies Stewart Lee in his mannerisms...that "yeah but" they both use seems more heartfelt. realistic, genuine coming from Lee but i don't know maybe it's the other way around regardless i enjoy them both but gervais does have a lot of people blowing smoke up his arse and that smugness he has from that grinds my gears.
@@jeremystanger1711 Hi, I was talking about people generally. I agree of course that many comedians are brilliantly clever, not all of them though! (Jim Davidson, Nish Kumar?).
There is an irony here in that since this show (2010?) the n-word has pretty much become a context free word and the FA have been proved right in the sense that it is deemed offensive no matter the context. There are numerous recent examples one being a music researcher in Canada who, after a warning, cited some titles of pieces by a black composer (Eastman) in a talk, who deliberately used the word as provocation. She was complained about, called a racist by the organiser and had her concerts of her own music cancelled as 'punishment'. Would Lee use the word now in his routine in any context? I doubt it.
‘He shouldn’t use the word nigger’ I said and then I got in trouble for saying the word. I got in trouble because I shouldn’t use the word no matter what the context. That’s what they meant.
Marvellous! Thanks for sharing. The Jimmy Carr parody is good. But he doesn't really make friends with colleagues, Stewart Lee, does he :-D What I find most remarkable in his approach to Gervais, is how he puts his personal ethics before personal gratitude, as I believe Gervais isn't playing a small role in Lee's success - according to Lee himself.
Yes, Lee doesn't actually despise most of the acts he makes fun of. Pretty sure he respects and would even laugh at some Michael Macintyre stuff; he just uses it as a contrast to his style. Despite what some bores might tell you it's possible to find both of them funny.
Aah, excuse me, but Stu's "success" is in no way due to Ricky Gervais. It is due to his comedy, not because someone else thinks he's funny and might have said to check him out.
The harsher Lee is to Gervais, the better, since it's just a joke. Gervais is forced into laughing off any criticism, no matter how much it may hurt. That's what makes him funny these days.
Best British comic hands down. However, giving some respect back to the footballers, 'irrespective of context' needn't mean 'without context'. For me it means 'whatever the context might be'. Great joke though.
@@tomthomas9708 - He said, taking a sip of brandy, a wry smile of satisfaction creeping onto his lips. No-one in the room dared argue, lest the already icy atmosphere became unbearable.
The great thing about that Jimmy Carr joke is that, right at the end, someone in the audience's laugh sounds just like Jimmy Carr.
🤣
Maybe he's actually there and genuinely laughing?
Wrong. Jimmy Carr follows Alistair Crowley's 'backward mijak' by laughing on the inhale rather than the exhale, which, I'm guessing, is supposed to suck out the energy of the victims, sorry, audience, or simply be subconciously discordant and baffling to keep them under his 'spell'. Well, at least that's what they're saying on Mumsnet.
@@thesunreport Ha ha ha!!! brilliant
I never realised until I saw this and the content provider gig, how similar Jimmy Carr and Russell Howard really are 😅
“If Ricky Gervais shouts “Mong” in a forest, over and over again and there’s no Americans there to tell him he’s a genius”
Those are some of the words. Well done.
@@PhilipTimm some of the words have let themselves go
Wow, now look at you@Zain Alvaro and @Harrison Mayo, here you are in a Steward Lee comment section of his *WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT* routine, having your very own, unique little thing going on, haven't you!?
That, gentlemen, is so meta, i feel inclined to respectfully tip my hat to you both,... if i didn't detest this sort of desperate clammy spamming *so much*.
But, do tell: How many people did you lure into your Instawaste, from this particular comment section?
How do S.Lee fans rate on the gullibility scale?
@@walteredstates You're a hero.
I know Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a tool to log back into an Instagram account?
I stupidly lost the password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me
Sounded like J. Carr was actually in the audience at the very end.
Or a seal being thrown mackerel
He was I was there
@@dorbid I was there and I saw that. And it wasn't a life-size inflatable model of Jimmy Carr, it was a life-size inflatable model of Alf.
@highdownmartin underrated comment
@@highdownmartin Or that same seal falling off a jungle canyon rope bridge....
Oh man that Ricky Gervais call. I actually heard about Stewart Lee because Ricky Gervais recommended him. Still, that line was ice cold. What a legend.
you can hear Jimmy Carr in the audience laughing several times. most obviously at the end.
Twitter is mostly Americans telling Ricky Gervais he is a genius.
I love Stu greatly because he hates Ricky Gervais.
@@Dionysos640
Ok, "hates" is too strong a word! I didn't mean one hated the other *person* but how Stu likes to skewer Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Alan Macintyre, Roy Chubby Brown, and the rest. I'm sure they professionally admire each other. Just that many comedians have a routine of shtick which begs for parody. Funnily, has anyone ever done a parody of Stewart Lee !?!?! He leaves himself wide open! Methinks it would be a hard act to do because he is sooooo unpredictable. I find Gervais and many others very predictable, formulaic.
@@thedolphin5428 Michael Macintyre's twin brother Alan, whom doesn't exist, has let himself go.
What are you doing standing on stage doing gags? You should be doing what you're being paid for - keeping West Brom in the Premier League.
A friend of mine is a WB supporter- small world. Out of pity for him I did offer to trek bare foot through the snow to the Hawthorns to convince the chairman and VIPs, as Joan of Arc convinced the dauphin of her divine mission, that i was the right person to lead that sporting band in the hour of need, but i had to reluctantly concede that times have changed and no longer is there faith in such miracles.
3:33 “Leave the same as you arrived, only more so!” Brilliant.
He's dryer than prince Andrew's armpit.
Ah, the lad's done well.
Stop using context-free words.
but has also let himself go
I'd definitely go see a show with the tagline "Leave exactly the way you arrived only more so."
oh look it's Tomas Haake the incredibly talented tech metal drummer from the band Meshuggah
This is a first! A Stewart Lee video and not a single comment about how a person who isn't Stew has failed in their attempt to maintain a publicly acceptable level of attractiveness in their appearance.
The N Word has let itself go
Won’t take long
@@andrewhenderson3808 👍
It’s just a joke, like on top gear
These comments have let themselves go
His ability to ridicule his own humor and political view point in a self deprecating way is wny his humour is so on point
Writing "on point" is such an effective, precise way of proving one's utter incompetence.
"and that's the same as having thought about it", right at the end was amazing.
The Jimmy Carr response is much the same as Robert De Niro's approach to acting over the last 30 years.
With a touch of Daniel Day Lewis thrown in for good measure
Exactly. Why is Robert De Niro's acting so shit, now? That face he always pulls, as though he has just crapped himself. Was he always so rubbish, or is it just the roles/films he chooses? I thought he was okay in Sleepers. The Deer Hunter. Raging Bull. Taxi Driver. Heat. Good fellas. Casino. Banarama wrote a song about him. Where are they, now? 🍌
I suppose you think Gervais is a genius.
@@StratsRUs Who, me? No. I think genius is so overused a word it has lost all meaning or currency, so even if I did think that I;d be doing him no favours calling him it.
@@christopherbrookfield4785 If in doubt, blame Rupert Murdoch
If he was a musician I’d compare him to Frank Zappa…. Come to think of it I do anyway
The laugh at the end sounds like Jimmy Carr’s in the audience. Lol
Wouldn't surprise me if that was a cheeky Easter egg edited in.
How right he was about Jimmy Carr. Although now Carr goes on to explain that he told the offensive joke because it was offensive and people should remember it was offensive.. after they've laughed, of course.
Leave the same as you arrived, only more so, has to be one of the best punchlines ever
Didn't think it got enough in the room.
@@petermorris4941 Perhaps because they were secretly aware that the exact same accusation can be aimed at them.
I severely doubt anyone has ever arrived at a Stewart Lee gig as a Right winger and left thinking "You know what, I might give being a Liberal a try".
We are all pretty entrenched nowadays.
Started watching British Stand Up comedy in 2010 as a Teen with the entry level likes of Russell Howard and Lee Nelson... I'm so happy to have progressed to the absolute premium that is Stewart Lee!
Have you watched Roy 'Chubby'Brown?
Clean up in Aisle 3!
the best and most thoughtful standup in britain today. although he has let himself go.
In what context?
@@gasmanrus it’s 1 of his jokes
He gives it to you straight…..
@@gasmanrus he was tried at the Hague for war crimes
@@gasmanrus there is no context
Comedic legend. His articulation is his signature. Been a fan of him since he and Herring were together. He’s cerebral.
Good for you 👍
And he looks like so many other famous people.
@@Torahboy1 ?
@@1inchPunchBowl
Just do a RUclips search for ‘who does Stewart Lee look like?’
It’s a mini-meme, as Austin powers would say
He isn't that bad ;}
If you call a tree a twat in a Forrest. That some mythical Shakespearen sh!t right there.
It’s more of a philosophical thought experiment but yeah, ‘mythical Shakespearian shit’ works, too.😉✌️
That microphone's let itself go.
Is there a more intelligent, more articulate comedian? Very few I'd wager can match this man.
Roy Chubby Brown?
Tom O’Connor ??
morrissey?
Are you a sardine?
Sounds a bit fishy to me
I'm just discovering this guy and he's hilarious...but why does he remind me of William Shatner?
Maybe the slight whisper of the delivery?
William Shatner had really let himself go
If you look closely enough he reminds you of every adult male ever.
Was it a case of mistaken identity 😁
Awe , the ghostly figure of Albert Finney has let himself go !
I could just say fucking genius but that's not enough. Its so so much fucking genius that my last is comment rendered pointless and ultimately retractable. So block that
I'm not sure it was right of you going full-mong with the Jimmy Carr impression.
Thought he milked the carr shrug but still brilliant.
Cináed mac Maíl Coluim, aka Kenneth II, aka Kenneth the Fratricidal, King of Scotland in the late 10th Century, has let himself go.
Far be it from me to take issue with Stewart Lee's grasp of English comprehension, but 'irrespective of context' is not the same as 'context free.' The former means 'regardless of the context in which it is used' - the latter means 'without context.' I imagine Stewart Lee is perfectly well aware of this, and in fact, forcing this subtle misunderstanding on the audience is a passive aggressive reference to his imagined intellectual superiority - the prick!
A prick that nevertheless has let itself go.
@@BigyetiTechnologies Is that a reference to ejaculate? I imagine Stewart Lee has fond memories of when that was a viable and enjoyable option, rather than a half-hearted and unsatisfactory affair issuing from what was almost an erection. If his comedy is anything to go by!
Are you an intellectual? I was just laughing at the use of the N word.
@@JohnSmith-ji6lu Depends on the context!
Stewart's technique of 'turn to camera to break the 4th wall while accusing the audience who don't agree with him of not getting it and not being as smart as other sections of the room' is his version of Jimmy Carr's shrug.
All criticism of Stew's routine can of course be dismissed with a 'yes, *that's* the joke'. Don't you even understand????
etc...
Was he accusing as much as reflecting? Tend to think he’s generally ethical. Maybe you’re right. Maybe he was just being defensive and blaming the audience. It was edgy. Do white people need to play with racist taboo words? Is it freedom of speech or privilege taking? You made me think.
@@MrLtia1234 This is a fair point. I love Lee's work but he is certainly open to criticism and there is only so much clever 'meta' comedy and hiding behind persona's that can be sustained. Since the time of this routine, it has unravelled somewhat. He is right here about Carr though.
which is the same as not having thought about it?
In a sense, you're right. But it's worth thinking a level deeper - what does the technique signify, or aim to achieve?
Carr's faux-naive shrug leaves the unspoken hanging, and the audience's reaction unquestioned. It hints towards "I'm just saying what we're all thinking".
Stewart deconstructs the situation, forcing the audience to consider why they find some subjects to be acceptable targets for humour, and some words to be taboo, and some not.
I have been wondering for a while why Ricky gervais is so famous in America...i mean, yeah, he's made me laugh before, but come on..
If you haven't, you should watch the show where he inexplicably ends up in a room with Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis CK (pre-wanking in front of people who don't want to be wanked at, controversy) all discussing stand-up. He's so out of his league, he must have paid them all to be there.
Also, that clip from his Gary Shandling interview, is gold.
He's such a big-'ead
i don't know who's been around the longest but i've always felt that gervais copies Stewart Lee in his mannerisms...that "yeah but" they both use seems more heartfelt. realistic, genuine coming from Lee but i don't know maybe it's the other way around regardless i enjoy them both but gervais does have a lot of people blowing smoke up his arse and that smugness he has from that grinds my gears.
Brilliant 🍏
An evening of certainty. A great line.
4:49 according to a recent entry to the Urban Dictionary one who employs such a tactic is a 'Schrodinger's douchebag'.
Brilliantly clever and brilliantly funny, a very rare combination.
Not at all. Comedians are usually extremely clever and often highly educated.
@@jeremystanger1711 Hi, I was talking about people generally. I agree of course that many comedians are brilliantly clever, not all of them though! (Jim Davidson, Nish Kumar?).
@@ysgol3 two extremely good examples of stupid comedians!
@@jeremystanger1711 LOL thank you!
Did you think he was good? ..then so did I
Oh look, Benazir Bhutto has really let himself go
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
He did not say context free but no context which means the word in use with any context is wrong. A bit dumb
Didn't expect Brian clough to have such a tight 5 mins
oh he's finished saying that. i wonder what he'll say next
You keep on keeping on Stew. How's that working out for you?
I fear it's only Stewart Lee who makes me laugh these days.
Same, I struggle to watch about 9/10 stand-up acts now!
@@AA-hg5fk “Now”!? 🤨
He is definitely in oil.
I'd love to see Stewart Lee have a chat with Chubby Brown
The thinking man's Ricky Gervais
Woke puppet.
Ludwig Wittgenstein has let himself go
The Gervais line gave me my biggest laugh in years.
Why??
@@trystandavies2469 presumably he found it really funny.
Last night.. "I know what you're thinking Ray Liotta's let himself go" 🤣🤣
Worse than that. He died shortly before you made your comment.
@@robsengahay5614 lost in translation- I'm quoting him (SL) live - the night after he died
I was so caught up in the skit, it didn't register he said the n word. Must be something to do with context.
He likes all kinds of cheese's. All tbe cheese.
…cheddar.
Or is it a torch? 😎
if Stewart Lee does an edgy joke in the forest, is there a liberal Stewart Lee fan who's too scared to laugh at it?
Great hahaha
Laughter is the bovine opiate of the precretariate class. *Jazz hands*
The distribution of matter in the universe has become highly diverse.
I preferred its earlier material.
"And that's the same as having thought about it."
The fish who caught himself with his own fishing rod has really..... got a lot of talents for a fish
It's a tragedy that he died unable to free himself from his own barbed hook.
CONSUMER you BACK!
he's looking a bit less fat
Even relevant today ! 😂
There is an irony here in that since this show (2010?) the n-word has pretty much become a context free word and the FA have been proved right in the sense that it is deemed offensive no matter the context. There are numerous recent examples one being a music researcher in Canada who, after a warning, cited some titles of pieces by a black composer (Eastman) in a talk, who deliberately used the word as provocation. She was complained about, called a racist by the organiser and had her concerts of her own music cancelled as 'punishment'. Would Lee use the word now in his routine in any context? I doubt it.
no irony , just snowflakes doing their job
@@redwarf8118 Well the irony is that Lee was sticking up for context here but I suspect no longer would do in this case. So things have changed.
“change ends”
😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm not uhmericun, but Mr Lee is a genius and Mr Gervais isn't, but they are both philosophically funny - in their respective ways.
Right at the end of the Jimmy Carr gag; somone in the audience laughs just like him.
The sandpits at Horsell Common have let themselves go
That Jimmy Carr bit might be one of his best jokes!
Speaking of experimental comedians who gave Stuart Lee his wacky haircut?
Ted Chippington.
Great bit but I'm a little disappointed with the inaccuracy re football. The Football Association are not footballers 😅
I’d not seen this yet, thanks!
The comedian the world needs
The real question is, if you shout "twat" at a pushdown automaton, will it accept that?
Gavin Mccinnes, the creator of the proud boys has....
‘He shouldn’t use the word nigger’ I said and then I got in trouble for saying the word. I got in trouble because I shouldn’t use the word no matter what the context.
That’s what they meant.
Marvellous! Thanks for sharing.
The Jimmy Carr parody is good. But he doesn't really make friends with colleagues, Stewart Lee, does he :-D
What I find most remarkable in his approach to Gervais, is how he puts his personal ethics before personal gratitude, as I believe Gervais isn't playing a small role in Lee's success - according to Lee himself.
Yes, Lee doesn't actually despise most of the acts he makes fun of.
Pretty sure he respects and would even laugh at some Michael Macintyre stuff; he just uses it as a contrast to his style. Despite what some bores might tell you it's possible to find both of them funny.
Aah, excuse me, but Stu's "success" is in no way due to Ricky Gervais. It is due to his comedy, not because someone else thinks he's funny and might have said to check him out.
Lee is playing a character. He has stated so numerous times. Gervais is not a stand up. He's a sitcom writer.
The harsher Lee is to Gervais, the better, since it's just a joke.
Gervais is forced into laughing off any criticism, no matter how much it may hurt.
That's what makes him funny these days.
@@DrSnook Gervais identifies as a stand up comic. Does that mean he is?
I have to admit to being a bit confused because I like Stewart Lee AND Rick Gervais. Maybe I have unknown American heritage from many decades past
Russell Howard's let himself go
Best British comic hands down. However, giving some respect back to the footballers, 'irrespective of context' needn't mean 'without context'. For me it means 'whatever the context might be'. Great joke though.
He's shite son.
@@tomthomas9708 - He said, taking a sip of brandy, a wry smile of satisfaction creeping onto his lips. No-one in the room dared argue, lest the already icy atmosphere became unbearable.
@@martinmaguire-music6692 Nah .... shite son.
@@tomthomas9708 Yes.
That means 'context doesn't matter', which is exactly the argument Stew easily disproved.
1:27 So it's Karl-Heinz RummeBAME from now on, or there'll be consequences, ok?
Is that the unmistakable bleating hee-haw of Jimmy Carr at 5:32?
I think it might have been him- comedians seem to mock each other if they're in attendance!
ahhhh... well spotted.
Definitely him
To be honest I thought this was Roy 'Chubby' Brown until he said that.
Censorial person. Not for broad debate or discussion. I find this person pretty narrow and sad.
Lol. Tobacco lobbyists in the audience
Is the fact that the FA chap wasn't claiming the word could ever be context free part of it?
If he's saying it's unacceptable in any context then it must have no context.
That Jimmy Carr’s let himself go……
the strange think is you can hear a Jimmy Carr type laugh at the end when he refers to him??? Hmmmmm
Thats a Toth devotion. GBUPT.
That's about right I'd say.
Stewart Lee and Chris Morris have it covered.
Leave the same as you arrived only more so
I wonder what his Ukraine jokes will be like
This guy is even more of a genius than Ricky Gervais is to an American.
So Stewart Lee is a post structuralist.
I aaaaammmmm Rod Huuuuuuullllllll!!!!
The editing of this joke is a tragedy.
was the ends joke about Ched Evans?
The Jimmy Carr crack was great!
did he just say the n word?
I don’t get it🤷🏻♂️
Leave the same as you arrived, only more so.