Stewart Lee On The Challenge Of Stand-Up
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In this episode, Rob is joined by comedian Stewart Lee to discuss his new stand-up shows on BBC iPlayer: Snowflake and Tornado.
The pair talk about whether a joke needs to have a victim, the type of audiences Stewart’s shows attract, and how the deadpan star really feels about Ricky Gervais, John Cleese, and other comedians he mentions in his routines.
We also find out why there may be a lot of people in the Philippines who think that Stewart wrote Blackadder.
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Is it post postmodern comedy or is it post post post postmodern comedy?
why cant we just watch it on here you welsh c---?
Why can't I find 'tornado' on the iPlayer?
@@joshuataylor3550 because it hasnt aired yet on tv
@@jamesthirtyone pretentious
Stewart sitting there with a backdrop filled with the DVD's of himself that he buy's online to push the prices up.
😆 🤣
Buy's? Buy's? Are you five?
@@Misteryowl yes’s
I would have thought you'd blame your original post on predictive text, but now I know. I'm genuinely sorry if you have learning difficulties.
@@Misteryowl your simpathy is apreciated
I love it when Stew's stoic stage facade fades and he genuinely cackles with laughter.
Cause Brydon's a real one. He's made some truly dark and interesting comedy that horribly overlooked now and yet is smashing it with light entertainment and his elvis obsessions. He's a lovely weird dude and it's great that Lee of all cynical F's shows such immediate joy seeing Rob. Brydon is disarmingly funny. He's got technique under another technique under another and yet makes that not feel impersonal and contrived. Not easily done. It tends toward people of good character.
@@PatrickByrne-e5v Marion and Geoff is one of my favourite things ever.
The worst performance of anyone ever since Ricky Gervais in After Life. This is not the real Lee, the one on stage is who he really is.
Giving it to us straight, like pear cider that's made from 100% pears...
100% pear*
@@fme4099 wot, one giant pear?!
@@nkenchington6575 You had to be there...
and then the fly thought...
Haven’t seen Rob so starstruck since Bob Mortimer!
Genuine respect for one of the greatest comedians of all time😊
Of course he’s starstruck. Are we all?
"I am become death, destroyer of fragile celebrity egos." --Stewart Lee
He targeted celebrity allies before like Russell Howard who all.virtue signal the exact same consensus
That’s the one thing Lee was right about. Russell Howard is awful.
He espouses the 'values' of the carphone warehouse and doesn't even realise it.
Absolutely loved this so nice to see Stuart Lee and Hugh grant chatting away.
Hi Rob.
Hugh Brydon and Terry Christian no?
Hugh Grants let himself go.
@@GG-ml3vr l don't think you let go lm 100% sure it just leaves.
Oh, I thought it was Anton Du Beke
He's not the world's greatest living comedian.
He is in fact the 41st.
He's not even as good as a guy who opened for Tom O'Connor once.
You can't argue with facts.
He a comedian?
I had to Google him. Never knew who he was or is..
Its like being voted the worlds biggest dwarf
Hard to pick, but Stew's probably my all-time favourite comedian of all time.... and Rob's somewhere in the Top 50. 😀 As a professional Jungle Canyon Rope Bridge Repair Man who was made redundant thanks to Thatcher in the 80s, I really appreciate Stewart's humour.
Did you see the two Mystery Machines on his shelf? Dog?
It's not like we don't need your services here in Brum. Can't move in the canyons for bloody Pirate Zombies these days. Privatization!
How was it thanks to Thatcher..? I assume you are still campaigning for a subsidy to keep Blockbuster video employees in a job?
@@jayveebloggs9057 That's a very poor analogy. It fails completely.
Blockbusters was a private company which dealt in an out-moded medium and was therefore unsustainable.
There were no more hard copy videos/DVDs, nor people who wanted them.
Jungle Canyon Rope Bridges are not a business. They provide a community service. Birmingham STILL has canyons that need crossing, and people who need to cross them.
It's zombie pirate apologists like you that are destroying the fabric of society.
@@jayveebloggs9057 😂they blame ‘Thatch’ for everything. Ben Elton blames her for his mansion
Rob Brydon has really let himself go.
Harry Secombe's let himself go
Mark Lamarr's let himself go
@@MT-kx2uc ? It's a running gag and I was the first to say it on this video 🙂
@@kingloser4198 exactly. That’s why I joined in. Ah well.
😂😂😂
@@steveharrison76 :D I was talking to MK :D Ah well :)
Therese Coffey has let herself go
Oh wow!!! Haha
Mrs Goggins has updated her look for the 21st century
The room is unplayable. She's unelectable.
😂😂
I think this is one of the best interviews Iv seen with Stewart Lee . Thank you Rob 🎭
"There's an excitement in going to Peterborough"... Every joke is a gem, with Stewart Lee.
Not one joke is funny, he's for people with no intellect or sense of humour
@@peopletalkuttergarbage I don't always agree with his politics, but he is a topnotch stand up.
@@peopletalkuttergarbage No sense of humour? Okay. No intellect? Get fucked. If anything, it's all far too cerebral.
No, that’s not a joke I don’t think. My wife and I saw him in Peterborough back in 2009 and it was a great atmosphere - the audience loved it. He’s saying he’s appreciated in those kind of provincial towns coz nothing much happens there.
@@arc236 I also don't believe it to be a joke, but I took it as one
Brilliant interview I watched Snowflake and Tornado back to back (yep you CAN binge-watch comedy specials!) and they are works of genius, love that Rob thinks the same. Pity this wasn't an hour long!!
it is
It's strange to see Stew suggesting he can't do impressions when he continues to manage such an eerie approximation of Tucker Jenkins from Grange Hill. Who has let himself go.
I'm sorry, but this is disgusting. They shouldn't even get internet access in The Hague dungeon but to allow Mladic (who has, obviously, let himself go) a platform like this is appalling.
I love smiley, happy Stewart because we seem to see that side of him so rarely :)
Tbf, he seems to be like that most of the time offstage.
Watched Snowflake the other week. Utter crap. The only time I came close to laughing was when he impersonated Bernard Manning. What they call "comedy" these days seems to be up its own pseudo-intellectual fundament.
Ricky Gervais fans: why are people upset by Ricky’s jokes? They’re just words.
Also Ricky fans: we’re upset because Stewart Lee said words
Ricky and his fans are seriously fragile about any criticism of him, despite this whole 'free speech' 'comedy is meant to offend' spiel
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 Which is exactly why no one likes him
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 'Fragile' - or just happy to defend him? Haven't seen anyone say no-one should criticise Ricky. And if they do say that, they're wrong.
I dont like either much as comedians but Lee is a virtue signaller as well. So he's worse.
He's a fat never-was who who thinks being a member of the guardian hivemind makes him edgy.
Also liking The Fall is a really desperate attempt at the same.
His comedic observations on right wingers is based completely on straw men and his old 80s fart desires about the right.
He probably thinks Alexi sayle is/was funny and the only time he's been on point is when he says that his jokes are not meant for me.
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 It's because deep down they know he's done nothing good since The Office and are insecure about people pointing it out.
Went to see Stewart Lee in Perth doing the two shows referred to in the summer, never seen anything like it in my life. Don’t miss the chance to see him at least once in your life. Artist doesn’t even touch it. Thank you.
Completely agree, although he has let himself go.
If he's cancelled Will he deny it exists ?
@@niallkennedy23 yes he has, The Hague canteen food isn’t what it once was, but that’s Brexit for you
Biggest fraud in comedy. Hasn't done or made ANYTHING of note
@@GabagoolForeverAndAlways Ok Ricky, sorry, I mean Paddy . . . 😂
Bert from Bert and Ernie has really let himself go
And so has Ernie.
It might be a rather simple analogy for a comedian who packs so much into his sets, but Rob is right to say they're like a novel, the strength of his through-lines, call backs, the structure of it is just sublime.
It really is, too many people lazily say "he goes on a bit", they should either watch more vids to realise there's a pattern and art to it (as I did a long time ago), or simply stick to comedians like Michael McIntyre
It’s Stewart Lee...you seen him on the telly...you seen him on the telly on the Top Of The Pops with the rappers, you seen him...on the telly on the Top Of The Pops with the rappers and on the DVDs...on the telly on the Top Of The Pops with the rappers and on the DVDs in the shopping centres, you seen him, on the DVDs in the shopping centres, by the Corn Exchange....you seen him...
Personally I can’t stand the bloke!
Was he with Richard " the hamster" Hammond and the gypsies?
Well observed MightyJonE. That's Lee in a nutshell.
Yep, Afterlife is garbage. Very successful garbage but garbage.
Stewart Lee’s actually looking pretty healthy…
I was thinking the same thing
Stewart Lee has not let himself go?
@@neilldehaan2522 No, but Todd Carty has
I guess...in the way a mother means "you're clearly eating well!"
Now he’s go rid of that ridiculous beard
Idi Amin has let himself go
Stewart Lee is a master craftsman in the art of comedy.
Wrong
@@dwaynedibley3529 opinions are subjective not definitive so it can't be wrong, it can be different but not wrong ????
@@TacBlades I disagree. It depends on the subject matter and the place it comes from. You can easily prove that fact with the word racism. However Stewart has been shit for years and now he can only get clicks by attacking successful people. It's pathetic.
No, Jerry Sadowitz is a master craftsman of comedy.
@@dwaynedibley3529 views can not be definitive as they are based on personal perspective, experience and taste.
I'm not sure why but I have to say I'm quite surprised to see Rob interviewing Stew
I know what you mean. They are slightly different traditions. But they clearly like each other, and Rob's respect is real.
Deng Xiaoping's let himself go.
"I think it's the worst thing that's ever been made by a human."
LOL
What's worse than a Stewart Lee fan? A Stewart Lee fan that listens to Tool. Oh wait, that's me. Shit.
Hugh Grant has let himself go.
Lovely chat, thanks. My girlfriend lasted two minutes watching 'Snowflake", then retired to the kitchen, while I was creased up laughing for the next 58 mins.
Exactly the same with my missus.
Sorry mate. In your heart you know she was never the one.
Your girlfriend has impeccable comedic taste
I saw it live recently and I found it so funny that I felt I was going to be physically sick.
Best place for a woman.
Is this the guy that hangs around with the rap singers? You know…the rap singers…you’ve seen them…the rap singers they’ve got nowadays.
From off the Top of the Pops...🤔
As cuddly as Rob is, anyone who's seen Human Remains will know how much he must hate Gervais' current output.
Trite nonsense.
Jealous too ?
AFTERLIFE AND GERVAIS NEW MIDDLEAGED YANKIEDOODLE DOO FEMALE FANS ARE SHIT
Human Remains was over 20 years ago. There are no excuses any more for over a decade of inaction.
@@seanp8220 he's done loads of stuff.
The Trip is great, for starters.
@@kildogery That was OK, but it was nothing next to Human Remains IMO.
Boris Johnson has let himself go…😊
This is the Stewart Lee interview I’ve always wanted. Thanks Rob!
Life-size inflatable E.T.
Somebody needs to get one to Buckingham palace before they sell out
Pob has let himself go ….
Stew has the same cheap and nasty Philips' headphones that I have. I wonder if we're related...or if it's an incredible cosmic coincidence...or that, at some point, we both chose to buy a really basic pair of headphones?
Perhaps you're the same person that only appears to be two different people when viewed from different points of space and time?
A lot of Strews stuff is rly good but he is a snob and that diminishes the quality somewhat.
That's how I feel. He can be brilliant, but he does sneer at people he regards as below him. He does punch down.
Yes he is a Guardianista snob.
I watched his Edinburgh show at 10am on a Monday. Didn't think it possible for a crowd to be that into comedy at 10am on a Monday. Testament to Stewart's style!
It was amazing FYI. Should have said
I swear starting your day listening to something that makes you laugh is about the best start to a day you can have.
I can’t stand Stewart Lee nowadays. He is so fixated on moralizing and standing on his smug pedestal. Also some of his
fans on the internet are the epitome of pseudo-intellectual.
But for some reason you want the attention of Stuart Lea fans, why else would you troll an interview you’re not interested in.
I'm loving the amount of scooby doo merchandise behind him
Off to see him in London in a few weeks for the leister square show, very excited, saw tornado/snowflake a few weeks back and absolutely phenomenal
I’ll express surprise that Stewart is on here (I’m not sure why, but nevertheless…) but glad that a)people who only know of his comic persona can see that he comes across as a reasonable man in ‘real life’ and b)that other people in the world agree with me that After Life was a crock of s**t.
That's Gervais
...you porridge-brained fvckwit.
Britain won't be Great again with oxygen wasters like you swanning around.
Try the after life outtakes
He comes across as a fascist lefty Internazi comedian - about as funny as Stalin.
The therapist scenes are gold ( Dennis the Pennis is back )
@@bluetoad2668 The entire show should've been taken out.
Lee has obviously not watched any BBC Comedy output in last 5 Years , as there isn’t any.
This Actually Happened is the best piece of stand up, nay, performative art, I have have ever seen
I just dont find him funny
Sorry
My Ex Wife didn't like Stewart Lee, hence the divorce.
Humour is important in a marriage, so I don't blame her.
@@MrWayout74 I see what you did. Sounds like something Michael McIntyre would say.
@@steveharrison76 Now that I take as an insult. Not the biggest SLee fan. But I'd rather see him dying on his arse than watch anything to do with MM
@@steveharrison76 Really? I thought it was funny.
@@MrWayout74 I know you did.
It doesn't surprise me these two didn't bring up Stewart's understandable loathing of James Corden!
love how mr. brydon makes a point of using the clapper at the start to sync up the audio and video and then from literally the next shot onwards, the audio and video are out of sync!
I think he's funny but I'd like to see him and Ricky at the same table together, just the two of them, without guile and see what they can talk about without killing each other. You can call the show "Cancelled".
I saw the Snowflake/Tornado gig just as covid was kicking off and we got extra material like "This is the last gig you'll ever see!" and he wasn't wrong :) Feels like a life time ago. Or 2.5 years.
A friend of a friend went as we had an extra ticket, he was on the fence, ended up going and walked out before the end lol
And I've seen Rob live as well, where his mic played up and we had an extra 4 mins of material there as well :) good times.
Yeah same here, saw him in Birmingham just a couple of days before lockdown was announced, we were all laughing but we knew it was coming. Then saw him earlier this year in Crewe, and he'd definitely made changes
A whole 4 minutes? Or is that a roundup?
Saw him at the Canterbury Marlowe which was literally the last gig before lockdown. Very funny but very bizarre atmosphere knowing they were shutting everything down that evening.
Saw them both last year and of course both were absolutely amazing 😜
Of course hes got Trout Mask Replica in the background.
I met him years ago when he was very young wandering across a field in Cornwall St Germans Elephant Fayre. He appeared to be absolutely out of his nut and said he was trying to escape from a woman in a tent... We had an incredibly surreal conversation. Even then it was quite apparent that he was an amazing thinker and so witty.
Elephant fayre was amazing
@@brendanroberts4866 it was indeed 😊
Or simply off his tits
Proof that being out of your nut in early life makes you into the ultimate conformist in later life.
That is exactly the kind of thing I expect to read about him but never do. Until now. Thanks!
It's so refreshing to read a Stewart Lee comments section that isn't full of random names of old, fat and genocidal people followed by four very predictable words. Have you been deleting them? Or have the people who usually post them just let themselves go?
Jim Davidson has let himself go.
Stewart lee is the most unfunny "funny man" that isn't funny 1 bit. Suprised hes gone as long as he has, probably students. Suprised he makes a living
Lee now looks like Ronnie Corbett who's going through a Morrissey phase
This is the sort of comment that could end up in his set one day. 🤣
Stewart Lee is not funny.
I couldn't agree more with Stew's opinion of After Life. Bloody awful.
morrissey *HAS* .. .
- Let himself go
- aged quite gracefully
- made a few interesting observations
- given us a interesting interview
- given us quite a few EXAMPLES..
I think I'm in the minority in that I like both Stewart lee and afterlife
Tintin's let himself go.
"Going well by British standards" is clutch, I'm gonna use that later.
Richard Hammond's let himself go.
The podium bit in saying the unsayable. Gervais style long sip of beer giving great opportunity to read every word of what he’s to say next which ironically is saying the unsayable. Brilliant.
Stewart Lee now unconsciously espouses the values of the carphone warehouse and doesn't even realise it.
I think the most impressive part was how Stewart switched from that grotesque verbal stuff instantly to being normal
I couldn’t cope with that, I ended up squirming in my seat watching through my fingers. Loved it
@@seanp8220 does he now? I see you are neither conservative nor liberal, which is good. But it begs the question, what are you?
@@willywonka7812 Conservative and liberal are the same side of the same coin... and it would appear Sean is in fact conservative
I went to see him recently in Glasgow,, but had to leave as I was unwell, as I was waiting on a taxi Stewart was on his break,, noticed him in a hallway, and explained I had to leave as I was unwell, he said to me get in touch on social media his Web page or whatever and he'd give me a tkt for Edinburgh as I live in Edinburgh,, still waiting for my tkt, I won't hold it against you, as my mate spoke to you after about me leaving, and you signed a book for me,, hope to see you again soon. 🏴
A big fan of you both. Great and fun conversation. Thankin.
Ah now there we go... 8 minutes in it's the blokes that get it and the gals who are dragged into going to watch him. 🙄
Well no. I found Snowflake and Tornado on iplayer on my very own and don't faint but I'm a woman and found it funny. I liked the character of Stewart Lee he was presenting. It was interesting and engaging. I enjoyed the irony of both shows and the bravery of the repetition. I did like the Alan Bennett storytelling part very much.
There we are! I may edit and add later!
Thanks Rob for creating your RUclips Channel. I've been watching since lockdown. Best Caroline x
Glasgow Liverpool and Belfast haha Stewart is spot on there
Makes you proud doesn't it.
I once met an American man who said it took years for him to realise that "alright ya big cunt" was just how some people say hello in Belfast.
Wow, Morrissey has let himself go...
Rob Brydon has let Stuart Lee go.
Comedians are professional liars. Don't get your worldview from professional liars.
I flipping love Stewart Lee 🎉
Steve Coogan and Max Headroom have let themselves go.
Been a while since Jimmy Hill, has been on the box.
Patrice O`Neal - funny , Stewart Lee - not at all funny
I agree that afterlife is shite
It's one of the best things on TV in recent years in my opinion.
Ricky is a genius
@@sallycinnamon795 not according to me and Stewart Lee. I really liked everything else Ricky has done on tv by the way just not afterlife.
I thought it was shit before Stewart Lee said it. Love all Gervais’s other tv work.
The King of Comedy. . . . . Not you Rob. Sorry.
We need Daniel Kitson on this show
Jesus... Rob Brydon has let himself go.
His undressing of Afterlife was hilarious.
What a gimp…slagging off Ricky for afterlife…..numbers talk Mr.Lee, he’s been top for a while, I think there’s a hint of jealousy. The only numbers you’ve made are behind you….it doesn’t count if you buy all you’re own movies 😅
On every video featuring Stewart on RUclips there is someone commenting about how much they dislike him and/or his comedy. Generally the thing to do if you don't like something is to avoid it, yet you go the opposite way and seek it out. For your own mental health I suggest finding a new way of handling things you don't enjoy, you're only making yourselves more angry.
So tell the fat guardian wankstain Lee to not watch Ricky Gervaise then.
You think that only happens on Lee videos?
Is this your first day on the Internet? 😅
Stewart Lee's let himself go
He's right about Afterlife.
I agree and I've never seen it.
@@kildogery hahahahaha
i gave up after 2 episodes. I get get bombarded with clips of it on instagram and people wanking over it in the comments. I mean this guy co created the genius that is the Office and this is how bad he has got now.
@@guitarreilly what’s wrong with After Life?
@@deepzepp4176 over sentimental formulaic tripe and the humour so broad and predictable. None of the subtly of the office or even extras
Well, well, well. Seems my friends comment backing up my criticism of Lee is unviewable. Surprise...
What was it?
Given that there is loads of criticism of Lee under most of the RUclips stuff of him it must have been extra spicy.
Your friend isn't Ricky Gervais is he? Or Graham Linehan?
@@jonbrooke8308 The liberals who puritanically try and shut down anyone who cares about children's safety. THAT IS WHAT IT SAID.
Great interview. Rob Brydon is the man and a great interviewer. Obviously, I love Stewart Lee.
He's let himself go though
@@howdjNo he didn’t. A cartoonish caricature of an Eskimo did.
I think Stuart Lee and Ricky Gervais are both tremendously overrated as comedians. Rob Brydon on the other hand is an excellent light entertainer
I respected Gervais for flipping off all those hypocritical Hollywood types. That took some balls.
The lesbian librarian, also known as stewart lee, has let himself go
This should have way more likes!
Rob - are you reading this? Rob - Under no circumstances does a man's glasses need to sit that far down his nose. Not even a doctor has the licence to do that. The positioning at 10:21 is audacious. Who do you think you are? A lecturer?
The thing I love most about Stewart Lee is his endless smugness. No matter what happens in the world, pandemics, economic catastrophe, genocide, your loved ones dying, etc etc, Stewart Lee’s smugness is still there and always will be. And it’s just really comforting to know that.
I like Lee's comedy and at the same time I can't stand it, it's aimed at university types
Notice he has Trout Mask Replica on the shelves cool!
he has brilliant taste in music he's like the John Peel of comedy
@@gazriley624 Aye your right there, take it easy. Theres got to be zappa there somewhere too eh?
@@mixolydian2010 There is! and Can, Neu..even Throbbing Gristle a lot of odd stuff
@@gazriley624 HA ha didnt look close enough i can see monster movie by can for sure! Cheers. its a bit like my record collection lol.
@@mixolydian2010 No, I've heard him talking about his record collection before somewhere
Scooby Doo Thatcher routine makes a lot more sense
Stewart Lee - The Guardian newspaper in human form.
Concentrated Guardian consensus and nothing more.
@@seanp8220 you seem to have a busy life
I like him but he rarely makes me properly laugh out loud. Dylan Moran is similar. I like listening to them but if you really want a laugh it’s not gonna happen. People like to think they get the intelligence of the two of them but I don’t think they understand.