One of the few comedians who can not only live with awkward silence but thrive on it. Standing doing that one noise over and over again in front of an audience which is expecting you to make them laugh would kill most comedians after 10 seconds. He does it for 2 whole minutes.
Class act! There is no one who comes even close except perhaps Eddie Izzard but he comes from his comedy from a different angle! Nowt wrong with that. It takes all sorts! Both broke out the mould that was "alternative" comedy back in the 80s . Long may it continue, who knows who is coming up next!
@@markboon341who does...Tom O'connor...oh he was quick stew, like a wolf or lightning in a dish...he came out Stew and he said to the man are you a sardine...no he wasn't a sardine he was a man 🍺🍻
20 minutes I thought I'd never get back the first time I watched it. 20 minutes I've relived possibly 20 times over the past 10 years and it still wrecks me 🤣
The same shtick with every routine, repeat until tedious then until it gets laughs. Boring unless your a teenager that has just been introduced to marijuana.
I'm AA Gill and I shot something and smeared it's blood on my face. I'm Jeremy Clarkson and driving slightly too fast over a speed bump. I'm Geert Wildes and I'm not in this bit.
I’m Rod Liddle and I’m absolutely …..Oh I’ve got some soup on my cuff and gravy down my front. Suet on my collar fish paste on my jacket and trousers…..Where the fuck did this nut come from !??!?
Thanks for sharing this in its entirety. I’m in that audience, to the left of stew. There was such a tense atmosphere in the room during this routine, it just made the bit all the more funnier - in front of stew was this parade of annoyed faces - it just got funnier and funnier - the sheer nerve of it. Afterwards my whole chest hurt from constant laughter. Brilliant night.
@@Paul-eb4jp And Joe Pasquale He does a great joke about being in people’s gardens It goes, “sometimes when I’m in someone’s garden they shout at me to get out” No that’s not it Stu He comes out, Joe Pasquale, and he says, “guess what people say to me when I’m in their garden? They say GET OUT OF MY GARDEN!!” Only he’s quick, Stu. Not like you. He’s quick, like lightning out of a gun. He comes out, Stu. Joe Pasquale. And he says. Yes. That’s it. He says…..
Rod Liddle, "you can't make this up" "it's like the lights are on, but nobody is at home" and don't forget "it's just political correctness gone mad" ...
This is what I would consider the height of standup comedy. So layered and nuanced, truly genius! Incomparable. You either get it or you don’t. I know I didn’t for the longest time and only really “got it” at like 31. Stewart Lee to comedy is what jazz is to music, pure spontaneous improv, a bit like Pat Metheny.
I had the privilege of seeing the great Stewart Lee in Pompey earlier this year, not often anyone can redeem the name Stewart but he did it in spades and I have the greater privilege of securing a ticket for his 2025 show.
Brexit fried his brain. He just stopped being funny. I think he, like most leftist comedians, is too caught up in the "punching up/punching down" nonsense. Much of his material involves mocking the working-class, and their culture, which is fine, everything is open to ridicule; but in the sanitized comedy world he inhabits, that's surely punching down.
I saw him twice on this tour. The poppadom skit literally drove a small handful of people to leave. Idiots. They obviously don't understand comic genius when they see it. Bet Michael Mcintyre couldn't pull off a ten min poppadom routine. 😂
Lee often mocks his own audience. They're often portrayed as pretending to understand a joke that in fact has no meaning. I wonder if this bit is about seeing how far he can push a ridiculous idea on them. As always, the repetition wins the day. I love this bit.
personally, i find that this joke really does have meaning. he criticized two journalists for having little substance beyond hatred to their writing and the then for rod liddl he has so little respect for his writing and its content that he'd rather talk about 'it's just food on a man'.
A brilliant post-modern de- construction of the very unfathomable vapid and worthless idea behind the word joke with nods to Beckett and Camus. GENIUS . PS. Ollie Watkins rules.
For someone that regularly writes for the Guardian, the list of food stuffs on Liddle’s apparel is incredibly British. We see you, Lee. We see you. If he’d had any sense of inclusivity, there’d at least have been some baklava down his front.
I'm late to this one, but if you're going to take down a bad revewier, clockwork orange people into thinking you have angel delight dust on your neck and a nut on a hand whenever they hear your name. fucking genius
He's intentionally subverting, rather than deconstructing his work with thinly veiled ad hominems about his appearance. He's thinly veiling the critique by increasingly and petty banal personal comment
The true mark of a comedy genius is when he or she subverts their act but persuades the audience they are actually deconstructing their own narrative. Stewie is well versed in this approach in the way Charlie Chaplin and Benny Hill persuaded Hollywood, TV bosses and audiences that dancing in a factory or chasing semi clad women was actually supporting women's lib (or at least the model created by Mary Woolstone craft and the wave theory), That most of the audience didnt know who Rod Liddle was (begging the question is the actor the subject or vice versa?) was a perfect starting point for Stewie. The more he mentioned the name and food products the more the audience laughed, a similar momentum to the standing ovations Stalin received when outlining his various 5 year plans. The point being that the performance here is indeed truly 'Epic' as the title mandates. What else could it be?
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob you are easily upset. you've literally repeated your statements down this thread as much as Lee repeated rod riddle ... you find him very influential, I see.
Not sure frightening Rod Liddle was the main thrust of this bit. If it was then I agree wholeheartedly Michael, Lee has probably not succeeded. Why don't you ask him?
@@Torahboy1 Absolutely. I saw him do the food-on-a-man thing in one of the work in progress gigs he did before he filmed this series. He was like a conductor orchestrating the audience. To experience the hilarity of the initial concept, then the confusion as it continued, and then the building hysteria as he just went on and on, was amazing. As incredibly funny as it was, though, I think it worked far better as a 10-15min bit in a live performance that went on for a couple of hours, rather than as a 15min bit in a 25min TV programme.
@@Torahboy1 I've seen audience members get up and leave during his long unfunny bits, adding to the pre-punchline tension, and making the reward for staying even more satisfying.
The Bengal Lancer in Kentish Town must be one of the most famous restaurants around, seeing as it is also featured heavily in the writing of Mark Billingham
![Stewart Lee - [1/2] Give It To Me Straight, Like Pear Cider That's Made From 100% Pears](/img/1.gif)
I'm laying down with my laptop on my chest going:
"Oh Oh Oh, Ha, Ha, Ha, He's a genius"
I'm a genius too because I like him
He is a genius even though he's let himself go.
When I saw Stuart 30 years ago he was much younger than he is now.
Now he's about 3 decades older.
Aye, he's definitely let himself go. Anyone can see that, unfortunately.
@@benjysshed1883
He looks fat and depressed
And fat
He still must have had at least a bit of gravy on his sleeve 😂
Stewart🤷♀️
I used to see him when it was all just jokes.
I had completely forgotten the existence of Rod Liddle until I came across this... so thanks a bunch Stew.
One of the few comedians who can not only live with awkward silence but thrive on it. Standing doing that one noise over and over again in front of an audience which is expecting you to make them laugh would kill most comedians after 10 seconds. He does it for 2 whole minutes.
Class act! There is no one who comes even close except perhaps Eddie Izzard but he comes from his comedy from a different angle! Nowt wrong with that. It takes all sorts! Both broke out the mould that was "alternative" comedy back in the 80s . Long may it continue, who knows who is coming up next!
To be fair, he's the only comedian i've seen who can squeeze 10 minutes of material into 2 hours.
Fair point tho I dont totally agree.
He just makes me laugh and Im no socialist at al all@peterobbo7512
He comes out Stu, he comes out and.....
@@markboon341who does...Tom O'connor...oh he was quick stew, like a wolf or lightning in a dish...he came out Stew and he said to the man are you a sardine...no he wasn't a sardine he was a man 🍺🍻
Rod is, however, slightly less sophisticated than this generous portrayal.
Rod Liddle is now an associate editor of The Spectator. Has egg all over his face - but I'm not in the zone.
Rod Liddle has let himself go.
On the contrary - I think he looks quite well all things considered
Rod Liddle has really let his lunch go.
You can get all that food in Lidl.
@@WinstonSmith19847
Or get it all ON Liddle
Apparently the managing director of Lidl is actually called Rod.
Genius Lidl Comment
A Lidl known fact
The bit at the end about the watch was absolute pure genius. Superb 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂😂😂
@@christinavuyk2026 I agree 💯
"I'm clever. I watch a middle aged man say things"
That's you. ☝️
20 minutes I thought I'd never get back the first time I watched it.
20 minutes I've relived possibly 20 times over the past 10 years and it still wrecks me 🤣
The same shtick with every routine, repeat until tedious then until it gets laughs. Boring unless your a teenager that has just been introduced to marijuana.
@@dineen7 give it to us straight, like pear cider that's made from 100% pears
@@jaimemurphy2208 Whoah, it's so clever because he's TRYING to be unfunny.
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob The good thing about comedy is that when it's going well people laugh. You don't. It's not your type of comedy.
I'm Rod Liddle, and I approved this message.
I'm AA Gill and I shot something and smeared it's blood on my face.
I'm Jeremy Clarkson and driving slightly too fast over a speed bump.
I'm Geert Wildes and I'm not in this bit.
@@sabre22b
I’m Will Self and I’m upset not to be in this routine
I’m Rod Liddle and I’m absolutely …..Oh I’ve got some soup on my cuff and gravy down my front. Suet on my collar fish paste on my jacket and trousers…..Where the fuck did this nut come from !??!?
I'm Rod Liddle and so's my wife.
@@Xombigod
I didn’t get where I am today by being Rod Liddle
Neither Mrs C J nor I are Rod Liddle
Just found out he came to Kalgoorlie of all places in 2005. Would’ve loved to see him. Never knew the Fine Young Cannibals had even toured WA
i had to look up Rod Liddle and i couldn't stop laughing
Liddle is a twat. And an unkempt one at that.
Same here. Definitely worth it 😅
Thanks for sharing this in its entirety. I’m in that audience, to the left of stew. There was such a tense atmosphere in the room during this routine, it just made the bit all the more funnier - in front of stew was this parade of annoyed faces - it just got funnier and funnier - the sheer nerve of it. Afterwards my whole chest hurt from constant laughter. Brilliant night.
@johngalantini6910 I'm envious! The recordings from there are so iconic. I've seen him in London and Cardiff a few times.
Have you tried rubbing some pork pie jelly on your sore chest?
@billbutler6872 If I did, someone would smash a glass! I don't believe for one second that was staged, and Stew's riff on it was magnificent
Was the stew also on Rod Liddle?
Funny that. I was there in the exact seat you said you were. One of us is lying.
Rod Liddle, giving it to us straight.
@@bobadams7654
He is, after all, 100% pear(s)
@Torahboy1 your pear comment makes me SO angly
@@bobadams7654
No time to argue with you atm
I have a dentist appointment @2.30
The receptionist didn’t need to write it down for me……
@Torahboy1 nice one Stewart
Haha like apple cider made from some apples. I remember that one.
"It's just a list of food on a man.."
How rip-roaringly funny, when delivered with a socialist sneer!
@@redlester
It needs to go on a LOT longer
@@Torahboy1with much more detail too 😊
@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob You can still get some Jim Davidson stuff on here.
@@Paul-eb4jp
And Joe Pasquale
He does a great joke about being in people’s gardens
It goes, “sometimes when I’m in someone’s garden they shout at me to get out”
No that’s not it Stu
He comes out, Joe Pasquale, and he says, “guess what people say to me when I’m in their garden? They say GET OUT OF MY GARDEN!!”
Only he’s quick, Stu. Not like you. He’s quick, like lightning out of a gun.
He comes out, Stu. Joe Pasquale. And he says. Yes. That’s it. He says…..
Rod Liddle, "you can't make this up" "it's like the lights are on, but nobody is at home" and don't forget "it's just political correctness gone mad" ...
No, actually.
@@ricardolorrio8228 maybe you're thinking of Richard Littlejohn.
@@JimboPrague maybe you are right...
@@JimboPrague Either way, they're both going to hell in a Handcart.
it was the clavicle that held it all together ...well done you!
Stewart Lee is a sublime stand up comedian. He manages to combine taking the piss out of everyone whilst taking the piss out of himself!
@@RichardBrook-kq8dm Absolutely 💯
He's never been funny, ever. He's taking the piss out of people who paid.
@@oscardoodles So you don't share his sense of humour? So what? Who is asking you to?
@@RichardBrook-kq8dm I'm questioning if he actually has a sense of humour.
@@oscardoodles Of course he does, just not one you share!
This is what I would consider the height of standup comedy. So layered and nuanced, truly genius! Incomparable. You either get it or you don’t. I know I didn’t for the longest time and only really “got it” at like 31. Stewart Lee to comedy is what jazz is to music, pure spontaneous improv, a bit like Pat Metheny.
Like Miles Davis
Been looking for this one for ages
I had the privilege of seeing the great Stewart Lee in Pompey earlier this year, not often anyone can redeem the name Stewart but he did it in spades and I have the greater privilege of securing a ticket for his 2025 show.
The continuous applause he got that evening from us was truly a happy moment, I didn't think so many people would welcome him down there :)
It's taken me a few tentative forays into SL's stand-up to work out just how good it is, but it was worth it.
Same for me, Jan. Finally, it's sunk in
The BBC has let Stewart Lee go……
Brexit fried his brain. He just stopped being funny. I think he, like most leftist comedians, is too caught up in the "punching up/punching down" nonsense. Much of his material involves mocking the working-class, and their culture, which is fine, everything is open to ridicule; but in the sanitized comedy world he inhabits, that's surely punching down.
These days, if you say you're English, you'll be arrested and thrown into jail
@@Chilli_Tea
My wife is a gay man
@@AndrewWilliams-ry6tbSo is it nonsense, or is it the reason you don't like him? You're incoherent. Is this a bit?
@@Chilli_Teaand cretinous you will be the subject of his next tour 😂
"the vegetable stigmata" gets me every time xD
Outstanding metaphors for someone who doesn’t deserve a proper joke
Ricky from Eastenders has let himself go
@@jeremywyatt4981
Don’t you mean Mark Fowler ????
Eddie Large has let himself go
12:00 I'd consider "marmalade" rather than "honey" was better suited given the context but then again, wtf would i know about food on a man
It wasn’t on him. It was the memory of the honey……😂
"int dat papadam dry, Rod?" killed me!
I saw him twice on this tour. The poppadom skit literally drove a small handful of people to leave. Idiots. They obviously don't understand comic genius when they see it. Bet Michael Mcintyre couldn't pull off a ten min poppadom routine. 😂
The poppadom runs out of steam pretty quickly, tedious.
Rod Liddle - not so much dressed as basted.
@@vultan2000
A basted bastard?
‘Vegetable stigmata’
The Batgirlcycle from the third season of _Batman 1966_ has let itself go.
The founder of the yuan dynasty has let himself go
Angel delight powder - lost it there...
TWENTY FRIGGIN' MINUTES??? I'm sure the person who bought that pile of bricks at the Tate feels less short changed.
What's a 'noun' ? And who is Rod Liddle? Otherwise, cutting to the edge of beauty.
Liddle is a f**king leftovers haystack but without the rural charm of a real haystack.
I'M ROD LIDDLE! I AM! I AM HIM!
I was eating a poppadom watching this
@@amaj7313
Are you a sardine?
@@Torahboy1 I'm a cod head
@@amaj7313
Isn’t that what they call people from Hartlepool ??
My cat was lapping up milk.
Lee often mocks his own audience. They're often portrayed as pretending to understand a joke that in fact has no meaning. I wonder if this bit is about seeing how far he can push a ridiculous idea on them. As always, the repetition wins the day. I love this bit.
just about rob sorry rod no rob little luddlle liddle you know
personally, i find that this joke really does have meaning. he criticized two journalists for having little substance beyond hatred to their writing and the then for rod liddl he has so little respect for his writing and its content that he'd rather talk about 'it's just food on a man'.
They do,you don't
Repetition takes us to a different place😂
A brilliant post-modern de- construction of the very unfathomable vapid and worthless idea behind the word joke with nods to Beckett and Camus. GENIUS . PS. Ollie Watkins rules.
Absolutely brilliant. This is Stewart Lee making us all scream with laughter 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Who needs a standard punchline?
I love this bit and totally get it we had a teacher at school like Rod liddel with all soup down him
All hail Stewart, numero uno.
For someone that regularly writes for the Guardian, the list of food stuffs on Liddle’s apparel is incredibly British. We see you, Lee. We see you. If he’d had any sense of inclusivity, there’d at least have been some baklava down his front.
Rod Liddle wouldn't eat foreign foods
But you see the problem with that is. Tats not really rod liddle-"ish"... Is it?
You see if you'd been in the zone you'd have known that
Claire Baldwin has let herself go.
Garden peas on his eyebrow
Absolute genius.
TBH there’s a stone in my garden who could embarrass Rodney liddle brain !
You sound like someone who's got a bit of Foster's down his shirt
Not the meat or the crust, just the jelly.
@@TrumptonMayor Someone smashed a glass there....
It was not 'red soup'. It was Tikka Masala Sauce.
Rupert Grint has let himself go
Rupert Grint was never in shape to begin with.
Rod Liddle; he’s the one who left his wife for a young one!
A young papadom
Mr Tumble has let himself go
Let’s not forget Ben fogul and his dragon,
Rod Liddle rhymes with 'Fiddle' and 'Diddle'... if you know what i mean... allegedly.
He really paints a picture for you
Could listen to a recording of Rod eating poppadums aldi
Would they have to be Aldi’s poppadoms?
@@Alexander-of7ny nah, Lidls obv
@@pseudonayme7717 idiotz
I'm reading this with a Geordie accent.
He’s the one who left his wife for a young one
Is that you Eamon?
@@Parallelwurlds😂
...who he then assaulted
Well, I always found Nigel Planer kind of hot, too.
@Harrier_DuBois he assaulted Rosie Holt?
Thank you, Paul!
What rhymes with Venus?
@@stuartdoig15 LOL. Good morning, Stuart. Intravenous. Have a good week :)
I'll never see background noise the same again, Rhubarb's gone for a walk...
The ever expanding comedian.
I never used to know why I disliked Rod Liddle so much but thanks to this routine I'm fully aware. 😂
I love this but...my favourite take down of Rod Liddle was by Irish Journalist Eamonn Dunphy..live on TV...its gold.
Link please....
@@richardichard4237 It's literally less than a minute with google.
@@richardichard423719:47 19:47
Sinbad Brookside has let himself go
Hes trying not to laugh himself😂
'Three different types of butt plug' ... Brilliant!
I spoiled my ballot paper once with a similar statement
What does Rod Liddle call his banana . Rod Liddle
Great stuff
Pure. Comedy. Commitment.
@@MatthewXLY it’s like a fine pear cider
Kim Jong Un has lost a bit of weight.
14:55 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Rod Liddle in the middle of LIDL
So funny how he's bang on point with the way I picture Rod Liddle in my mind 😂
@martin-mi3cg That's exactly how he looks on TV. All gravy down im!
You can cook poppadums in the microwave. They are still very good.
I saw him do this live in York,absolutely amazing.
I'm late to this one, but if you're going to take down a bad revewier, clockwork orange people into thinking you have angel delight dust on your neck and a nut on a hand whenever they hear your name. fucking genius
Rod Liddle, He's the fella that ran away and left his wife for a young one.
Ah Eamon come on now, that’s out of order!
He's intentionally subverting, rather than deconstructing his work with thinly veiled ad hominems about his appearance.
He's thinly veiling the critique by increasingly and petty banal personal comment
Is he that funny though?
@@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb depends on your tastes, if he's not to yours, you've probably clicked on this by mistake
The true mark of a comedy genius is when he or she subverts their act but persuades the audience they are actually deconstructing their own narrative. Stewie is well versed in this approach in the way Charlie Chaplin and Benny Hill persuaded Hollywood, TV bosses and audiences that dancing in a factory or chasing semi clad women was actually supporting women's lib (or at least the model created by Mary Woolstone craft and the wave theory), That most of the audience didnt know who Rod Liddle was (begging the question is the actor the subject or vice versa?) was a perfect starting point for Stewie. The more he mentioned the name and food products the more the audience laughed, a similar momentum to the standing ovations Stalin received when outlining his various 5 year plans. The point being that the performance here is indeed truly 'Epic' as the title mandates. What else could it be?
I'm disappointed he didn't mention custard on Rod Liddle.
Angel delight...snob.
@@mauricedear5809 Ooh Lah - de - dah - we had Instant Whip !
@@GaryHutchins whoosh.l never realised Telegraph readers had a sense of humour...must adjust my sense of timing.
@@mauricedear5809 'Telegraph readers' ? 🤔
@@GaryHutchins ...not waving...just drowning....
GET ON WITH IT!
I wonder if the tape bit was in any way a nod to Krapp’s last tape by Samuel Beckett because Stewart Lee is the kind of person who would do that
@@mrbenoit5018 That's a great observation!
Not so much a take down as a compliment that Rod would probably approve of
Pie jelly haha = aspic
Imitating the sound of rod Liddle masticating stretches the limits of comedy
To breaking point?
@@plebjames for some I presume.
I found it vaguely arousing, that sound of a very arid poppadum being nibbled by Rod from Lidl
@Lagrangeify rod Liddle and the word arousing should not be in the same sentence 😄
I wonder what kind of influence Stewart got from Andy Kaufman.
Stewart's so much better than that other geezer, what's his name, DIck Gervais
Can't compare the two.
@@simonwarren1209well true, only one is a stand-up comedian
A jocular pineapple has let itself go.
Genius.
@@juliangilbert5465 I agree
You are easily pleased.
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob you are easily upset. you've literally repeated your statements down this thread as much as Lee repeated rod riddle ... you find him very influential, I see.
Rod would be impressed by the nuances!
It's funny, there no cc for that stuff at the end! How is it spelled in the script?
Srewart Lee is the Steve Reich of comedy
That was great, have you thought about putting more adverts in though? I’m not sure 4 is enough..!
@aphelanofficial I didn't know that they could be limited
Rod Liddle is great. He's *almost* good enough for me to want to buy the Spectator.
Performance. Occupy the space between yourself and the individual in the audience. Timing counts. The rest is going nowhere until the end.
That certainly put Liddle in his place. He must live in fear of your comic genius.
Rod Liddle is actually funny. Lee is pathetic.
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob Yeah it's funny when he beats up women and foams about immigrants.
I know it feels like you’re in a conversation with Stuart but this clip isn’t live.
Not sure frightening Rod Liddle was the main thrust of this bit. If it was then I agree wholeheartedly Michael, Lee has probably not succeeded. Why don't you ask him?
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob Rod "Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography?" Liddle is funny? Rather telling of you as a person really.
He's a genius! So am I cos I like him.
Jesus Lee really strings out a bit to the death, at times unfunny, and then right at the end he nails the landing. Genius.
He always does a bit that goes on waaaaay too long. It starts off funny. Then it gets boring. THEN it gets funny again.
Genius indeed
@@Torahboy1 Absolutely. I saw him do the food-on-a-man thing in one of the work in progress gigs he did before he filmed this series. He was like a conductor orchestrating the audience. To experience the hilarity of the initial concept, then the confusion as it continued, and then the building hysteria as he just went on and on, was amazing.
As incredibly funny as it was, though, I think it worked far better as a 10-15min bit in a live performance that went on for a couple of hours, rather than as a 15min bit in a 25min TV programme.
@@Torahboy1 I've seen audience members get up and leave during his long unfunny bits, adding to the pre-punchline tension, and making the reward for staying even more satisfying.
@@rjbradburn
His Rod Liddle eating a popadom is the ultimate. And the aside to the guy looking at his watch is genius
Crab paste
One of the greatest.
The Bengal Lancer in Kentish Town must be one of the most famous restaurants around, seeing as it is also featured heavily in the writing of Mark Billingham
Fun fact, Lee employs someone to go around the crowd with a prodding stick to stop them falling asleep, and drowning in their soup.
@@joeyjoejoesI’m doing an awkward silence like your messiah. Quick, get the prod…..