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!
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 !??!?
@@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…..
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. 😂
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.
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.
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" ...
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.
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.
I think Stewart Lee is brilliant and I can't help feeling that a lot of the audience is laughing and are laughing the way they are laughing because they daren't not laugh for fear of being exposed as not knowing if and why he is funny. I think Stewart Lee knows this.
I originally thought this was based on Liddle sounding like ladle (ladel?) but maybe he is just the kind of guy that always looks like he has some food down 'im.
@@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.
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.
I meant to add Kevin Bishop to my list below of "always funny"- Star Stories was pure genius. And while I think of it, the Anglo-Iranian behind Fonejacker. FANTASTICALLY funny.
Richard doesn’t drink any more, unfortunately. But I agree he’d be a much more entertaining person to hang out with. Lee’s cynical arrogance - no matter how ironic - is kind of just exhausting. I know his stuff is clever, but the cleverness itself just isn’t funny enough to justify how long you have to wait for the payoff.
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?
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.
Rod is, however, slightly less sophisticated than this generous portrayal.
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!
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
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
"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 has let himself go.
Rod Liddle is now an associate editor of The Spectator. Has egg all over his face - but I'm not in the zone.
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
@@HorridOnlineTroll
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?
@@HorridOnlineTrolland cretinous you will be the subject of his next tour 😂
Been looking for this one for ages
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 💯
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. 😂
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
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.
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……
All hail Stewart, numero uno.
That’s some punchline. The audacity of the man.
i had to look up Rod Liddle and i couldn't stop laughing
Liddle is a twat. And an unkempt one at that.
"the vegetable stigmata" gets me every time xD
I saw him do this live in York,absolutely amazing.
it was the clavicle that held it all together ...well done you!
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...
Rod Liddle - not so much dressed as basted.
@@vultan2000
A basted bastard?
Kim Jong Un has lost a bit of weight.
‘Vegetable stigmata’
The Batgirlcycle from the third season of _Batman 1966_ has let itself go.
Sinbad Brookside has let himself go
I'M ROD LIDDLE! I AM! I AM HIM!
It's funny, there no cc for that stuff at the end! How is it spelled in the script?
Terry Christian is a mess now !
Prince's fish paste
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
Well that's a wasted 20 minutes I won't get back.
Outstanding metaphors for someone who doesn’t deserve a proper joke
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
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
What's a 'noun' ? And who is Rod Liddle? Otherwise, cutting to the edge of beauty.
Thank you, Paul!
What rhymes with Venus?
@@stuartdoig15 LOL. Good morning, Stuart. Intravenous. Have a good week :)
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!
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……😂
What kind of batteries were in that tape deck?
Ricky from Eastenders has let himself go
@@jeremywyatt4981
Don’t you mean Mark Fowler ????
Eddie Large has let himself go
I'll never see background noise the same again, Rhubarb's gone for a walk...
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.
Liddle is a f**king leftovers haystack but without the rural charm of a real haystack.
The irony is Rod liddle would actually love this
Garden peas on his eyebrow
I suspect that he thinks Rod Liddle is a prick…
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
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.
Absolute genius.
I'm Rod Hull I mean Lidl.
I think Stewart Lee is brilliant and I can't help feeling that a lot of the audience is laughing and are laughing the way they are laughing because they daren't not laugh for fear of being exposed as not knowing if and why he is funny. I think Stewart Lee knows this.
Pie jelly haha = aspic
The ever expanding comedian.
I originally thought this was based on Liddle sounding like ladle (ladel?) but maybe he is just the kind of guy that always looks like he has some food down 'im.
Maybe
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
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....
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 😄
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
Rod Liddle; he’s the one who left his wife for a young one!
A young papadom
I really wanted to know if it ended the relationship
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.
Yeah, Rod's Little.
The glass smash Hectler, lol let's investigate
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
Pure. Comedy. Commitment.
@@MatthewXLY it’s like a fine pear cider
Angel delight powder - lost it there...
'Three different types of butt plug' ... Brilliant!
I spoiled my ballot paper once with a similar statement
Rod Liddle is great. He's *almost* good enough for me to want to buy the Spectator.
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?
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.
It's like a version of Sonic Youth's - The Diamond Sea;
Why use 5 minutes, when you can use nearly 26 minutes
Painful. I would have walked out and demanded a refund.
Rod Liddle rhymes with 'Fiddle' and 'Diddle'... if you know what i mean... allegedly.
Who’s Rod Liddle?
A man.
Rod Liddle stood for election in my ward in the General Election. Lost his deposit.
He rhymes with 'Fiddle' and 'Diddle'!
Performance. Occupy the space between yourself and the individual in the audience. Timing counts. The rest is going nowhere until the end.
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?
I meant to add Kevin Bishop to my list below of "always funny"- Star Stories was pure genius. And while I think of it, the Anglo-Iranian behind Fonejacker. FANTASTICALLY funny.
Kayvan Novak. He was in Four Lions also. I don't know why he's not on more stuff he's hilarious
@@pushthetempo2 He was excellent in Phone Shop too. More recently he was vamping it up as Nandor in the superb What We Do In The Shadows tv series.
I like Rod and I’m right wing but I love Stews comedy
Angel dust in his neck lines
Angel Delight wasn't it?
I’d rather have a pint or two with Herring.
Neither want a pint with you though... 😂😂😂
Richard doesn’t drink any more, unfortunately. But I agree he’d be a much more entertaining person to hang out with. Lee’s cynical arrogance - no matter how ironic - is kind of just exhausting. I know his stuff is clever, but the cleverness itself just isn’t funny enough to justify how long you have to wait for the payoff.
@@MrOtistetrax You know that's the character that Lee is playing, right? That characters personality isn't Stuarts.
"Let me tell you, you're laughing because it's not funny" would have been a big zinger.
Is this simple or complete genius?
@@laughatfootball For me, complete genius
@@MahlerHolic1860 agreed, he really is at the top of the pile.
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 be a crime to look at child pornography?" Liddle is funny? Rather telling of you as a person really.
Anyone who attempts a descriptive commentary on a stuart lee sketch is a brave amd reckless soul indeed.🙈
That bit went on for too long. And what I like about that comment...
The Daily Mail has the effrontery to describe this man and his little wifey and children, as “Your average champagne communist family.”
That's pretty funny tbf.
@@MartinHiggins1972 I know 🤣🎯
Ayup! 😁🤿
I love Stewart Lee but I've never got this bit
It's a riff on how dishevelled Rod Liddle is. That's my view anyway!
I have no clue who Rod Liddle is, and yet this is one of the greatest stand-up routines I’ve ever seen.
@@ronbock8291He was a mainstream journalist in the 2000s who went down the conspiracy theory/uber conservative pipeline.
@@kristofermccormack6 I sorta gathered that, but thank you for the confirmation.
Sloppy journalism
Souper!
Crisps.
sps.
Rod Liddle likes all the different flavours of crisps.
Plain...
Rod Liddle is a guy who ran away and left his wife for a young wan
Souptaker
What do Rod Liddle and Shinji from Evangelion have in common? 5:54
Arms
I never used to know why I disliked Rod Liddle so much but thanks to this routine I'm fully aware. 😂
I like papadoms
@@garyc9908
It’s popadoms
Are you thinking of Papa John’s ??
@@Torahboy1 no condoms
James Cordens let himself go....
everyone knows a slightly overweight middle aged scruffy bloke that's why this is so funny
If you say so...
scruffy? ok...
@@Harrier_DuBois you guys don't get it
observational comedy, yeah
@@ukbloke28 yeah he observed that
Chet Baker has really let himself go.....so sad.
Ed Balls has let himself go