Ironically, my 3 year old daughter does drawings of owls, and they look like a really sensitive and actually somewhat complementary treatment of the Lee visage.
No they haven't. One hundred years hence, when humanity is multiplanetary, and Ganymede begins it's rise to be the greatest power the galaxy has ever seen, everyone will agree that this guy let himself go.
The majority of comments on every Stewart Lee video since he did the "oh look ... ... has let themself go" routine are about someone letting themselves go. I hoped there'd be conversations about the new film, political discussions, original jokes etc in the comments section but it seems full of lazy 'cackling sycophants' who have let their sense of individuality go...
The irony of getting a Nigel Farage advert in the middle of watching this was too much. Sorry Mr Lee but you're wit has been temporarily eclipsed by algorithmic wisecracks. RUclips, you ruddy scamp.
@@mariegriffiths2713 That is because he is a supporter of the classic Russian sport of naked wrestling. To invite women would embarrass the poor wrestlers.
Unfortunately he has become a useful idiot for the very establishment he has always claimed to oppose. He actually IS the metropolitan liberal elite, and I say that without an ironic arched eyebrow. Very sad.
It's almost as if his genes themselves have coloured that bit a darker shade of grey in tribute to Herring. Although wasn't he (Herring) making the point it's actually a Charlie Chaplin moustache?
The opening to Arena is one of my favourites- the bottle floating and the music. It was only recently I discovered it was Brian Eno (the music, not the bottle).
I specifically remember Stewart doing two routines years ago about the BBC censoring anything in his work which could be perceived as offensive, regardless of context. The norms have become far, far more restrictive since then. So I'm not sure how he can now claim that this problem is a fabrication of the right-wing media.
@@laurie4048 well there's countless comedians that refuse to do shows at colleges and universities, in the UK and America, because of how the students react to anything slightly resembling edgy comedy. So it's not just the BBC.
Interesting, down to earth, intelligent, as well as funny bloke, Stuart Lee. Offers succinct, balanced, critical commentary, on life's absurdities, while being in control of the weather; a comedian who knows how to play his audiences as required by the context.
@@wilfredsterling2124 Thanks for the reply. I'm a big fan of the man that is Stewart Lee, I started my first reply by agreeing with you, mastery of his craft second to none in my opinion, but not knowing previously of Stew's identity as a weather magician. When I read it back to myself it didn't seem as funny to warrant the length of the post, and I was sure you wouldn't bother to read the whole thing so i deleted it and wrote that short one.
Does that include making a documentary about being censored by Christian protestors only to then seek the censorship of another comedian? He's a disgusting hypocrite.
@@ThunderChunky101 Forgot I'd wrote a compliment to Stuart Lee. I 'm not even intelligent enough to understand his comedy. Was the comedian an evangelical white supremisist making jokes about mass shootings in gay clubs? Who was the comedian? Or was he a black evangelical supporting white supremisists and hatred of homosexuals?
Right on, Stewart. I clicked on this, thinking "I wonder where he's been all this time?" (I jusr realised I haven't been out much lately!). Keep on keeping on, and spreading a little sanity in a nastily crazy world. Thank you XXX
Mark Kermode was revealed to me the other day like when the curtain was pulled back on the ‘wizard’ of Oz. He bent over a bit while chuckling to himself at one of his ever so funny jokes to reveal a most surprising expanse of slapheadedness atop his bonce. I felt cheated after being tricked for so many years by that luscious Brylcreamed teddy-boy quiff he sports so winningly if you view him head-on.
How come SL continually manages to write original and current meta-comedy and yet in the comments section his audience only manages to tell the same one joke for over ten years?
Yeah, it's really annoying. If the comments section was half and half it would be fine but it's not. It's 80% repetitive jokes with 0 actual discussion of his work.
The RUclips user chris4072511 - who believes that SL continually manages to write original and current meta-comedy and yet in the comments section his audience only manages to tell the same one joke for over ten years - has let himself go.
"Follows the same plot points of Beowulf" - so Rob Lloyd kills Grendel's mother in an underwater cave and torched by a dragon. Wow! I would watch that! Epic!
With the unfortunate graying of his moustache, we finally learn that Adolf has been hiding out all these years as part of London's Metropolitan Liberal Elite. Adolf's let himself go though.
Unfortunate that he's retained just that tiny bit of colour in his beard. The Asian Dub 'Coming over here' is a great song. It's on Spotify if anyone hasn't heard it yet.
Boyle's Law, namely that the absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system, has let itself go.
I was a revolutionary marxist punk in 1978 Birmingham - I was out at midnight one Monday night Flyposting in a subway below the Rotunda - pasting up posters advertising a film tour of "The Patriot Game" (an independent agitprop documentary film sympathetic to the IRA) finding space for flyposting was difficult so i decided to flypost over Nightingales Gig Posters that were still Current - After i had done a block of 6 A1 size posters and was standing back to admire my work Rob Lloyd suddenly appeared looking worse for wear... I was worried he might get angry that i had covered his gig posters maybe even get aggressive confront me and punch me ... but he just continued walking past me... however i had spilled a glob of wallpaper paste on the ground and Rob stepped in it - he immediately and dramatically slipped flew in the air landing heavily on his arse howling loundly.... as he picked himself up he turned looking directly at me holding the paste brush with a bucket of paste at my feet. I said "sorry mate" Rob replied "yep you do look sorry" He walked off down the ramp towards the Rag Market as a light drizzle began to fall the droplets momentarily captured by the yellowish light of streetlamps.
The genius of Lee’s on stage persona is the tension he creates by being at once both utterly hilarious and deeply dislikable. What he struggles to see in some of his comrades is that they have only perfected the latter. Some call them ‘woke’, I prefer ‘crushingly tedious’.
@@tcritt No, I have seen his act for myself unfortunately. I don’t know if there are many people that get their sense of humour from newspapers. And if there are, they are the kind of humourless cretin that smugly chuckles along to Nish Kumars nonsense, just to make themselves appear right-on in front of their peers 🤨
This is undoubtedly, the most incredible, and amazing educational discourse my ears have eaten. Wholeheartedly and hands down had completely changed my world view on the topics that where raised. Thank you it really take courage and strength to speak truth. But the sign of a true speaker is how effortless they make it seem. Boy what a master class of perfection.
“really take courage and strength” ...Hmm, it’s a little difficult to discern “courage and strength” in promulgating safe, obsequiously right-on opinions hardly likely to precipitate the end of one’s career, but still. ;)
@@fluorosco Parroting the safest of safe assertions and/or satirical observations requires neither “courage” nor “strength”. ;) On a tangentially related note my favourite Stewart Lee moment remains him throwing a righteous tantrum over _Ricky Gervais_ telling a few home truths at the Golden Globes a couple of years back. Ever the towering intellect and sagacious, maverick wit, Lee got so worked up that at one point he even wished Gervais’ _death_ in his foam flecked screed. ;) Courage and strength…
Mr. Lee has the most insight into an audience of any entertainer I have seen. He uses it with precision. "You get the shows you deserve!" - genius. I see his beard is doing tribute to Richard Herring, his old performance partner, by having the silhouette of a toothbrush moustache as the rest goes grey.
Very interesting to listen to the real Stuart Lee talking sensibly about the real issues that his stand up persona purvey in an amplified, dramatic and satirical style. I like the man in the mask and the man behind it. Cool!
Love the whole thing, and have to sample the positive bit at 27:21 where he talks about a hopeful boom in post-covid creativity. Things seem like they're getting better...
It’s particularly amusingly appropriate, given the subject matter and style of his comedy, that many people commenting favourably about him haven’t managed to spell his name correctly. At least they aren’t confusing him with Terry Christian or Ratko Maldic so a small win there for him👍😂
Fascinating interview about a really interesting project. Proved to be a perfect accompaniment to my having the Test cricket from India on in the background this morning. Thanks.
Our media which is mainly owned by types who want to keep the British economy closely linked to USA banks, encouraging people to live in greed and debt, manages to get people to chant the word lefty as an insult, so they support USA capitalism and blame lefties for what USA capitalism causes. Then they keep voting for political parties who cause what they say they dislike, such as melting pot societies and trans children. It's only the USA that has a TV show for the child trans Jazz Jennings, only a USA magazine that made Caitlyn Jenner woman of the year, and now Dylan for the USA sports brand Nike. While the USA promotes diversity and melting pot societies to left wing countries, and all actual left wing countries such as most in north Europe and Scandinavia promote, are free health care, not being in debt with credit cards, houses are homes than for a few greedy people to buy up to make money off others and child environmental activists.
He really lost me when he started saying something creative or positive or politically useful was going to happen in the future. I don't know why anyone would think that.
So, to not say that is to give in to nihilism. On the other hand, after reading Graeber and Wengrow's book The Dawn of Everything--especially that little bit about the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan that tore down its temples and built luxury apartments for all of its citizens--I realized how imaginative homo sapiens are; we may be trapped in a dead end narrative at the moment but if history offers us any hope it is that we won't be stuck forever, so dream big even if it comes to nothing. What do you have to lose (other than your useless cynicism)?
Really enjoyed this interview. Not really like what I expect from Stewart as there wasn't a single marine predator falling from the sky, but nonetheless it was a good watch.
This was an interesting interview, and I'm looking forward to watching the documentary. This comments section, as is the case under any Stewart Lee video, is an embarrassment. I have no idea what people get out of this lame repetition.
Great point about the BBC from Lee. It used to be incredibly diverse and fabulous for the arts. Arena, Late Night Review, on every week night btw, Omnibus, play for Today and so on. I've lost all interest in it, and yet still love it like an old friend I used to love drinking with because the conversation was interesting, and fun.
"We're all Thatcher's children now". After 50 years, we are now onto our third generation, raised explicitly in that political environment. Everybody is now well informed that the easiest way to climb the ladder is to step on others, then burn the ladders. People who represent "woke culture" are as right wing as they come, they just know that the right wing hates them, so they consider voting left, but mostly they vote green. But the left has always been about collectivism, and minorities are more than welcome to join the collective. But when you put minorities ahead of the collective, you simply give the right ammunition.
Having seen Stewart Lee in his last stage appearance in Canterbury it will be good to see him live again rather than through the kaleidoscope of RUclips clutter.
It’s actually when a comedian never challenges the dominant cultural status quo. Never takes risks. Stewart Lee takes a pop at “the Tories” and assorted white men. His comedy is good but increasingly safe in its subject matter, if not its delivery.
Woke comedy def exists just look at the comedians in America that pile on other comedians trying to get them cancelled for jokes and things they said years ago.
@@williamdew7143 listen to comedy podcasts near every single one I regularly listen to brings it up and when they have guest comedians on they bring it up sometimes also.
@@williamdew7143 Explain to me how the comedy of Rosie Jones has made it to the mainstream? Your use of 'right wing scare tactic' makes you sound unhinged
@@williamdew7143 😂. Are you being serious? Firstly, she didnt 'make it', that would imply that she honed her craft through years of touring working mens clubs and the like, like actual comedians do. We both know this is not the case. I dont want to be unkind, but she cant string a coherent sentence together 😕. Stand up comedians are, by definition, supposed to be good talkers. She does not have the requried tools for the job. Her attemps at comedy are absolutley excruciating, and to suggest otherwise is an outrageous lie
@@williamdew7143 Yes I am 👊🐬. What has this got to do with racism? I am talking about someone who is woefully incompetent at the task they are trying to perform. I dont need to google cerebal palsy, i know what it is. Maybe you should google stand up comedy..
This is most excellent. There’s a reason we’re not taught politics in school, the Tories wouldn’t be able to control the masses and get away with their corrupt ways.
You should try to seperate your ideology from life. I (for example) went to an All Boy's Catholic Grammar school and we were taught politics. Myself and three other lads from those classes have gone on to work for Labour party, or Labour administrations Any dogmatic-obsessive is wrong. I do not agree with much of Tory policy and ideology but I don't spew left wing vitriol either. If corruption is so "Tory" why is every senior politician in Liverpool arrested for corruption?
@@realitychecks2920 firstly, that information is none of your business and you hold no authority to compel me to share anything. It doesn't affect what I said Secondly, it does. Liverpool has been a firmly Labour city without a Conservative Counsellor or MP for generations. It has, by contrast, the highest proportion on politicians charged with corruption offences. As we speak the Mayor and his senior advisors are subject to investigation for corruption in property and development contracts. This is the fifth City adminstration in Liverpool investigated for corruption. Hatton, revered Labour gangster and "Big Joe" are renowned for brown envelope jobs on the scene in the city. Festival Park being the most obvious example of Labour corruption. Second only to The Docklands. Steve is doing a great job to clean up the corrupt "Labour" members within the city and the legacy of 80's corruption. Corruption is a political and societal issue, not an ideological one.
@@liamr194 other than asking what your job is ( and you wouldn’t need to be specific) why can’t you answer some simple questions on the teaching of a subject?
Politics is widely taught in schools across Britain. If you took 30 seconds to Google the major exam boards, AQA and Edexcel you can see for yourself. Politics is also widely touched on at GCSE. I'm a history teacher and regularly teach aspects of Politics when teaching about the Cold War and Weimar/Nazi Germany. Basically, you're talking nonsense.
A child's drawing of an owl has let itself go.
@Withnail Thanks.
@Withnail I second that
@Withnail I hate that I was going to post that exact comment
@Withnail and I
Ironically, my 3 year old daughter does drawings of owls, and they look like a really sensitive and actually somewhat complementary treatment of the Lee visage.
These days if you let yourself go, you get arrested, locked up and thrown in jail. Just for letting yourself go....
When did this come in
Now that made me properly laugh
Actually my wife has let herself go.
@@lizburgessmb She should meet my imaginary black wife. She's a real fitness fan.
What? Actual jail? Just for letting yourself go?
The concept of Brechtian alienation has let itself go.
@@agathacrisps4957 yeh, but you're holding on to it because it has, in fact, let itself go
Moron comment of the month, well done!
An Alan Moore tribute act has let itself go
Best one so far! 🤣
This one is just true.
Fun fact: Those are all Lee Mack DVD's. I thank you for your service Stewart. 🏆🇬🇧
They're CDs.
@@tynebar of course they look like cds. But they are mainly lee Mack dvds. And a couple of Jim Davidson ones as well, but don’t hold me to that.
@@highdownmartin Lee Mack DVDs, pirated and burned onto CDs.
Mo Mowlem has really smartened herself up.
The leader of the ewoks has let himself give it to us straight, like pear cider.
Made from 100% pear
Is it a coincidence that Ewok is an anagram of woke..?? 🤔🤣
Charles Darwin has let himself go.
He's just evolved.
Letting himself go jokes have let themselves go.
No they haven't. One hundred years hence, when humanity is multiplanetary, and Ganymede begins it's rise to be the greatest power the galaxy has ever seen, everyone will agree that this guy let himself go.
@@Ropponmatsu2 All I know, is that the correct use of the apostrophe has let itself go.
Stewart Lee has let his beard grow.
The majority of comments on every Stewart Lee video since he did the "oh look ... ... has let themself go" routine are about someone letting themselves go.
I hoped there'd be conversations about the new film, political discussions, original jokes etc in the comments section but it seems full of lazy 'cackling sycophants' who have let their sense of individuality go...
Yeah this comments section has really let itself go.
Totally agrees I just wanted someone to give it to me straight . . . Like a pear cider made from 100% pears
Man, that’s so incisive...blame the audience and alienate the feeble-minded fans. Too clever.
It’s just a joke, like in Top Gear.
Shut up.
Adolf Hitler has let himself go.
I was about to comment that....lol
LOL I thought you just randomly said Hitler, then I saw that under his nose 😂😂😂
Adolf hitter has let himself go boom
If you look carefully, Stewart’s beard is giving off a Santa Clause/Hitler vibe.
I now cannot unsee this
The title of his next stand-up tour after Snowflake/Tornado.
I googled "Santa/Hitler vibe" and it isn't a thing.
You seem determined to muddy the waters of human aesthetics.
So which is it - Adolf Clause or Santa Hitler? I'm leaning towards the latter, since there's more Santa in it.
The irony of getting a Nigel Farage advert in the middle of watching this was too much. Sorry Mr Lee but you're wit has been temporarily eclipsed by algorithmic wisecracks. RUclips, you ruddy scamp.
I seem to get a lot of ads for Viagra, but the joke is on them as I am a Russian bot.
@@georgeash4008 Me too. We have so much in common. Lets meet up for happy times. Just Fedex me the cost of the airline ticket.
@@mariegriffiths2713 Welcome Comrade. I will ask President Putin to put you on the guest list for the next Kremlin party.
@@georgeash4008 He only seems to invite young men.
@@mariegriffiths2713 That is because he is a supporter of the classic Russian sport of naked wrestling. To invite women would embarrass the poor wrestlers.
The bloke who looks like the wino under my local bridge…has let himself go…
I love the enthusiasm and optimism at the end of this interview.
I'm glad he gave it to us straight.
Damn straight. Not wonky, like someone smashed on pear cider.
Unfortunately he has become a useful idiot for the very establishment he has always claimed to oppose. He actually IS the metropolitan liberal elite, and I say that without an ironic arched eyebrow. Very sad.
@@adamsmith307 why is he?
I hold my hands up for throwing JOE in with the Ladbible riff raff. Stumbled on a few videos from PoliticsJoe now and Oli Dugmore is a dude.
The only bit of colour in his beard is the Hitler moustache. A small tribute to Richard Herring.
Twmrnj 4eva
I can't unsee that now
It's simply marvelous that Stew has grown, completely by accident, the Hitler mustache that Rich wore as a schtick for 2 years.
It's almost as if his genes themselves have coloured that bit a darker shade of grey in tribute to Herring. Although wasn't he (Herring) making the point it's actually a Charlie Chaplin moustache?
Next door’s fishing rod wielding garden gnome has let himself go.
24:30 Don't mention the culture war! I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
Even his “thanks for having me on this”, I couldn’t take seriously. My favourite UK comedian of all time, I think ❤️
me too
The opening to Arena is one of my favourites- the bottle floating and the music. It was only recently I discovered it was Brian Eno (the music, not the bottle).
an attempt to be remembered has let itself be forgotten
A young Brian Blessed has let himself go
David Bellamy has let himself go.
I specifically remember Stewart doing two routines years ago about the BBC censoring anything in his work which could be perceived as offensive, regardless of context. The norms have become far, far more restrictive since then. So I'm not sure how he can now claim that this problem is a fabrication of the right-wing media.
In the Owen Jones video Lee explains it...but maybe not here
The reasons the BBC were doing it was because of a fear of backlash from the right-wing media, particularly after Sachsgate.
That's just the BBC for you.
@@shka-n1t but the BBC is the right - according to the left. It's why Corbyn lost the last GE don't ya know.
@@laurie4048 well there's countless comedians that refuse to do shows at colleges and universities, in the UK and America, because of how the students react to anything slightly resembling edgy comedy. So it's not just the BBC.
Papa Smurf has let himself go...
Most comedians aren't even particularly leftist - most of them seem to be centre-left at most. The days of Alexei Sayle et al are long gone.
Interesting, down to earth, intelligent, as well as funny bloke, Stuart Lee. Offers succinct, balanced, critical commentary, on life's absurdities, while being in control of the weather; a comedian who knows how to play his audiences as required by the context.
Does he like rain? Because it rains a lot.
@@wilfredsterling2124 Thanks for the reply. I'm a big fan of the man that is Stewart Lee, I started my first reply by agreeing with you, mastery of his craft second to none in my opinion, but not knowing previously of Stew's identity as a weather magician.
When I read it back to myself it didn't seem as funny to warrant the length of the post, and I was sure you wouldn't bother to read the whole thing so i deleted it and wrote that short one.
@@wilfredsterling2124 ...and then Trigger made a face.
Does that include making a documentary about being censored by Christian protestors only to then seek the censorship of another comedian? He's a disgusting hypocrite.
@@ThunderChunky101 Forgot I'd wrote a compliment to Stuart Lee. I 'm not even intelligent enough to understand his comedy. Was the comedian an evangelical white supremisist making jokes about mass shootings in gay clubs? Who was the comedian? Or was he a black evangelical supporting white supremisists and hatred of homosexuals?
Right on, Stewart. I clicked on this, thinking "I wonder where he's been all this time?" (I jusr realised I haven't been out much lately!). Keep on keeping on, and spreading a little sanity in a nastily crazy world. Thank you XXX
Rolf Harris has let himself go.
That's harsh, really harsh!
I don't think he could do that, it was the parole board that let him go.
@@releasetheclownssketchcome6555 Zorro-esque Sir.. 👍
Mark Kermode has let himself go.
A group of anonymous latin american meat packing glitterati has let himself go.
@@sprobablycancr4457 The memories of Nixon have let themselves go.
Mark Kermode was revealed to me the other day like when the curtain was pulled back on the ‘wizard’ of Oz. He bent over a bit while chuckling to himself at one of his ever so funny jokes to reveal a most surprising expanse of slapheadedness atop his bonce. I felt cheated after being tricked for so many years by that luscious Brylcreamed teddy-boy quiff he sports so winningly if you view him head-on.
How come SL continually manages to write original and current meta-comedy and yet in the comments section his audience only manages to tell the same one joke for over ten years?
Yeah, it's really annoying. If the comments section was half and half it would be fine but it's not. It's 80% repetitive jokes with 0 actual discussion of his work.
The RUclips user chris4072511 - who believes that SL continually manages to write original and current meta-comedy and yet in the comments section his audience only manages to tell the same one joke for over ten years - has let himself go.
@@speakatron5634 not funny
They’ve done no research
@@CheekClappersPodcast He probably did no research...
I thought this was a brilliant interview. Well done to all involved
"Follows the same plot points of Beowulf" - so Rob Lloyd kills Grendel's mother in an underwater cave and torched by a dragon. Wow! I would watch that! Epic!
And now for the “let himself go” comments........
The International Language of Screaming... has let itself go.
With the unfortunate graying of his moustache, we finally learn that Adolf has been hiding out all these years as part of London's Metropolitan Liberal Elite.
Adolf's let himself go though.
Video titled "Woke comedy is a fabrication" shows Nish Kumar in first 3 minutes
Nobody has ever accused Nish Kumar of being funny, thankfully.
Yeah, they're not claiming that Woke-ness is a fabrication, just that Woke Comedy is.
No one said Nish Kumar was a fabrication
Unfortunate that he's retained just that tiny bit of colour in his beard.
The Asian Dub 'Coming over here' is a great song. It's on Spotify if anyone hasn't heard it yet.
I like the finned mix the best.
Must admit, it’s not a patch on Good Tradition.
Its shit.
Lol about the dark part of the beard....if he shaved the rest it might be considered offensive
It's crap.
@@danholliday5564 Get back in the Sea.............
Boyle's Law, namely that the absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system, has let itself go.
The 'has let it go' meme continues to let itself go.
Mithrandir known in the common tongue as Gandalf the beige has let himself go
I was a revolutionary marxist punk in 1978 Birmingham - I was out at midnight one Monday night Flyposting in a subway below the Rotunda - pasting up posters advertising a film tour of "The Patriot Game" (an independent agitprop documentary film sympathetic to the IRA) finding space for flyposting was difficult so i decided to flypost over Nightingales Gig Posters that were still Current - After i had done a block of 6 A1 size posters and was standing back to admire my work Rob Lloyd suddenly appeared looking worse for wear...
I was worried he might get angry that i had covered his gig posters maybe even get aggressive confront me and punch me ... but he just continued walking past me... however i had spilled a glob of wallpaper paste on the ground and Rob stepped in it - he immediately and dramatically slipped flew in the air landing heavily on his arse howling loundly.... as he picked himself up he turned looking directly at me holding the paste brush with a bucket of paste at my feet.
I said "sorry mate"
Rob replied "yep you do look sorry"
He walked off down the ramp towards the Rag Market as a light drizzle began to fall the droplets momentarily captured by the yellowish light of streetlamps.
@@williamdew7143 yup you are right must have been 1979!
The genius of Lee’s on stage persona is the tension he creates by being at once both utterly hilarious and deeply dislikable. What he struggles to see in some of his comrades is that they have only perfected the latter. Some call them ‘woke’, I prefer ‘crushingly tedious’.
any examples ?
@@patrickrichmond6531 Nish Kumar
@@lukemc6547 "Man is bad and woke cuz newspaper told me so"
@@tcritt No, I have seen his act for myself unfortunately. I don’t know if there are many people that get their sense of humour from newspapers. And if there are, they are the kind of humourless cretin that smugly chuckles along to Nish Kumars nonsense, just to make themselves appear right-on in front of their peers 🤨
@@lukemc6547 So he's not funny. Why not just say that? What is it about is routine that is woke specifically?
This is undoubtedly, the most incredible, and amazing educational discourse my ears have eaten. Wholeheartedly and hands down had completely changed my world view on the topics that where raised. Thank you it really take courage and strength to speak truth. But the sign of a true speaker is how effortless they make it seem. Boy what a master class of perfection.
“really take courage and strength”
...Hmm, it’s a little difficult to discern “courage and strength” in promulgating safe, obsequiously right-on opinions hardly likely to precipitate the end of one’s career, but still. ;)
Were you listening to The Dude's story? Were you listening to The Dude's story?
@@makara80 Or it's just his opinion? Looks like you're obsequious to the damn thesaurus you threw at the wall with that comment...
@@makara80 eh?
@@fluorosco Parroting the safest of safe assertions and/or satirical observations requires neither “courage” nor “strength”. ;)
On a tangentially related note my favourite Stewart Lee moment remains him throwing a righteous tantrum over _Ricky Gervais_ telling a few home truths at the Golden Globes a couple of years back. Ever the towering intellect and sagacious, maverick wit, Lee got so worked up that at one point he even wished Gervais’ _death_ in his foam flecked screed. ;)
Courage and strength…
Fully armed and fuelled attack helicopter has let himself go...
Uncle Albert has let himself go
Mr. Lee has the most insight into an audience of any entertainer I have seen. He uses it with precision.
"You get the shows you deserve!" - genius.
I see his beard is doing tribute to Richard Herring, his old performance partner, by having the silhouette of a toothbrush moustache as the rest goes grey.
Louise Woodward, Britain's very own au pair, has still got it.
Very interesting to listen to the real Stuart Lee talking sensibly about the real issues that his stand up persona purvey in an amplified, dramatic and satirical style. I like the man in the mask and the man behind it. Cool!
Professor Noel Sharkey has let himslef go.
Love the whole thing, and have to sample the positive bit at 27:21 where he talks about a hopeful boom in post-covid creativity. Things seem like they're getting better...
Stewart Lee's great , a one off and King Rocker is a great movie.
Go off, king.
Stewart Lee, so woke he doesn't know it.
None of them do. Oblivious.
ruclips.net/video/gHSVjmO4iJY/видео.html
@@freddyrobins3524 Its almost like it isn't a real problem...
Stewart Lee seems to be pretty sharp for a bloke that mainly reports about sharks falling from the sky.
Don't bother reading the comments it is all peoples ego's expressing the same joke and meh.
The comments section has let itself go.
bothering to read has let itself go
Nadia Bear has let himself go
@@ommk9650 I prefer the pronouns she/her as a cis woman.
@@TheNadiabear I guessed as much from your username but didn't want to deviate from the format of the joke 🤷♂️
You only have to read E.P. Thompson's 'Making of the English Working Class.' or the voices that Mayhew transcribed.
It’s particularly amusingly appropriate, given the subject matter and style of his comedy, that many people commenting favourably about him haven’t managed to spell his name correctly.
At least they aren’t confusing him with Terry Christian or Ratko Maldic so a small win there for him👍😂
This was so refreshing - the brilliant Stewart Lee. So clever 😊
That cheap microwave has let itself go.
Benny from Crossroads has let himself go.
Thank you for interviewing Father Christmas, he seems like a really interesting guy.
but unfortunately, he *has* let himself go
The act of cunnilingus has let himself go
Fascinating interview about a really interesting project. Proved to be a perfect accompaniment to my having the Test cricket from India on in the background this morning. Thanks.
Our media which is mainly owned by types who want to keep the British economy closely linked to USA banks, encouraging people to live in greed and debt, manages to get people to chant the word lefty as an insult, so they support USA capitalism and blame lefties for what USA capitalism causes. Then they keep voting for political parties who cause what they say they dislike, such as melting pot societies and trans children. It's only the USA that has a TV show for the child trans Jazz Jennings, only a USA magazine that made Caitlyn Jenner woman of the year, and now Dylan for the USA sports brand Nike.
While the USA promotes diversity and melting pot societies to left wing countries, and all actual left wing countries such as most in north Europe and Scandinavia promote, are free health care, not being in debt with credit cards, houses are homes than for a few greedy people to buy up to make money off others and child environmental activists.
He really lost me when he started saying something creative or positive or politically useful was going to happen in the future. I don't know why anyone would think that.
So, to not say that is to give in to nihilism. On the other hand, after reading Graeber and Wengrow's book The Dawn of Everything--especially that little bit about the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan that tore down its temples and built luxury apartments for all of its citizens--I realized how imaginative homo sapiens are; we may be trapped in a dead end narrative at the moment but if history offers us any hope it is that we won't be stuck forever, so dream big even if it comes to nothing. What do you have to lose (other than your useless cynicism)?
@@mjamesharding My point of view isn't a fashion statement or a comfort blanket. It's what I think is true.
@@richwilliams1863 Well, you're in good company then. But you are lacking imagination, no?
@@mjamesharding I don't think I am
The comments on here have really let themselves go.
Really enjoyed this interview. Not really like what I expect from Stewart as there wasn't a single marine predator falling from the sky, but nonetheless it was a good watch.
This was an interesting interview, and I'm looking forward to watching the documentary. This comments section, as is the case under any Stewart Lee video, is an embarrassment. I have no idea what people get out of this lame repetition.
@Danny Dreadnought fuck, that cracked me right up!
@Danny Dreadnought 🤣🤣🤣😂
Stewart Lee has an uncanny ability to sound like he is rambling incoherently while actually choosing his words very precisely.
Letting go has let itself go.
Noam Chomsky has really let himself go.
Great conversation.
How embarrassing for us all that Brexit was a class-defined victory for the working class.
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what?
Tell me which members of the ERG are working class.
You've been conned and I would say "haha", except the consequences also affect me.
What a load of old bollocks.
Tell that to all those working class fishermen.
Great point about the BBC from Lee. It used to be incredibly diverse and fabulous for the arts. Arena, Late Night Review, on every week night btw, Omnibus, play for Today and so on. I've lost all interest in it, and yet still love it like an old friend I used to love drinking with because the conversation was interesting, and fun.
I just want him to be my mate
I said “He’s been in groups for (gravelly voice) 45 years.”
He said “45 years?”
I said (gravelly voice) “45 years, roughly speaking.”
That Scottish border terrier has let itself go
The Dulux Sheepdog has let itself go.
Saw SL last night in Darlington
Brilliant
I thank you
😊🏴☠️
Has he intentionally dyed his tache? Hitler-Claus has let himself go.
He tried to pull a Richard Herring, but didn't want to go all in.
@@gregh378 😂 niice!...
"We're all Thatcher's children now".
After 50 years, we are now onto our third generation, raised explicitly in that political environment. Everybody is now well informed that the easiest way to climb the ladder is to step on others, then burn the ladders. People who represent "woke culture" are as right wing as they come, they just know that the right wing hates them, so they consider voting left, but mostly they vote green.
But the left has always been about collectivism, and minorities are more than welcome to join the collective. But when you put minorities ahead of the collective, you simply give the right ammunition.
It is weird seeing Stewart Lee wearing Richard Herring's Hitler moustache. He's so great in casual interviews like this.
The ewoks were the best example of anthropomorphic socialism. I can see what he's done here. I like it.
My mate Paul has really got his act together
Oh dear Gary Bushell has let himself go.
What he says about the West Midlands, from 13:00 to about 15:00 is good.
Even Steward's moustache is developing a satirical colour scheme.
Attempts to write something funny about this have Brecht themselves go....
You’ll only alienate yourself with comments like that.
Yeah, like the inflatable comedian....I’ve let Stewart down, I’ve let you down...and I’ve let myself down.
Made me think of the film 'Anvil', which was on a similar subject and a film I absolutely loved.
Without giving spoilers away do they all end up ok at the end of that? I had to stop watching about half way through as it made me too sad.
🗣 *Tremendous!* 💯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Wonderful interview, thank you.
Whoever the geezer is doing the interview. How leftist can I get. Please tell me you are from Brighton or Bristol.
Richard Griffiths has let himself go
Having seen Stewart Lee in his last stage appearance in Canterbury it will be good to see him live again rather than through the kaleidoscope of RUclips clutter.
Under-rated comment!! :-)
I warn you; he's let himself go a bit.
Ernest Hemingway's let himself go
It’s actually when a comedian never challenges the dominant cultural status quo. Never takes risks. Stewart Lee takes a pop at “the Tories” and assorted white men. His comedy is good but increasingly safe in its subject matter, if not its delivery.
Woke comedy def exists just look at the comedians in America that pile on other comedians trying to get them cancelled for jokes and things they said years ago.
@@williamdew7143 listen to comedy podcasts near every single one I regularly listen to brings it up and when they have guest comedians on they bring it up sometimes also.
@@andegallagher6645 You’re being gaslit. Of course it’s a thing. You either know it or pretend that you don’t.
@@williamdew7143 Explain to me how the comedy of Rosie Jones has made it to the mainstream? Your use of 'right wing scare tactic' makes you sound unhinged
@@williamdew7143 😂. Are you being serious? Firstly, she didnt 'make it', that would imply that she honed her craft through years of touring working mens clubs and the like, like actual comedians do. We both know this is not the case. I dont want to be unkind, but she cant string a coherent sentence together 😕. Stand up comedians are, by definition, supposed to be good talkers. She does not have the requried tools for the job. Her attemps at comedy are absolutley excruciating, and to suggest otherwise is an outrageous lie
@@williamdew7143 Yes I am 👊🐬. What has this got to do with racism? I am talking about someone who is woefully incompetent at the task they are trying to perform. I dont need to google cerebal palsy, i know what it is. Maybe you should google stand up comedy..
He's looking well
This is most excellent. There’s a reason we’re not taught politics in school, the Tories wouldn’t be able to control the masses and get away with their corrupt ways.
You should try to seperate your ideology from life. I (for example) went to an All Boy's Catholic Grammar school and we were taught politics. Myself and three other lads from those classes have gone on to work for Labour party, or Labour administrations
Any dogmatic-obsessive is wrong. I do not agree with much of Tory policy and ideology but I don't spew left wing vitriol either.
If corruption is so "Tory" why is every senior politician in Liverpool arrested for corruption?
@@liamr194 what and where were you taught, from what age and how long ago?
What is your job in the Labour Party?
Your last point doesn’t make sense.
@@realitychecks2920 firstly, that information is none of your business and you hold no authority to compel me to share anything. It doesn't affect what I said
Secondly, it does. Liverpool has been a firmly Labour city without a Conservative Counsellor or MP for generations. It has, by contrast, the highest proportion on politicians charged with corruption offences. As we speak the Mayor and his senior advisors are subject to investigation for corruption in property and development contracts. This is the fifth City adminstration in Liverpool investigated for corruption. Hatton, revered Labour gangster and "Big Joe" are renowned for brown envelope jobs on the scene in the city. Festival Park being the most obvious example of Labour corruption. Second only to The Docklands. Steve is doing a great job to clean up the corrupt "Labour" members within the city and the legacy of 80's corruption.
Corruption is a political and societal issue, not an ideological one.
@@liamr194 other than asking what your job is ( and you wouldn’t need to be specific) why can’t you answer some simple questions on the teaching of a subject?
Politics is widely taught in schools across Britain. If you took 30 seconds to Google the major exam boards, AQA and Edexcel you can see for yourself.
Politics is also widely touched on at GCSE. I'm a history teacher and regularly teach aspects of Politics when teaching about the Cold War and Weimar/Nazi Germany.
Basically, you're talking nonsense.