My scouse friend told me of a time when his mate was at a fete that Tom O'Connor was opening. He called to him and said he had a joke for him.. .Tom O'Connor called him up and said tell the joke. 'What's brown, lives up trees and tells jokes'.. Tom says 'go'ead lah, tell us'... Tom O'Conkor.
My friend wanted to take me to see Stewart Lee at the Edinburgh Fringe. I said “is he funny?” , he said “no he isn’t, but you will agree the fuck with it”. We didn’t go in the end.
So basically Stewart Lee, a stand up comedian (and I use that term advisedly), has stolen this joke about sardines from Tom O'Connor, and tried to pass it off as his own, despite not having even the most rudimentary fish canning machinery at home.
The twist in this somewhat fishy-tale is that the man was actually from Cornwall, therefore making him a Pilchard! "Sardine" and "Pilchard" are common names that refer to various small, oily forage fish in the Herring family so Richard gets his oar in as well!
@@raindog7733 well, I'm from Chile and I've watched this a few times trying to explain my friends how hilarious this is with no success. Must be that they're not English or they're not saying it cos these days if you say it you get arrested and thrown in jail
I could kill some sardines on toast right now, but not in oil, in tomato sauce. Tom o Connors joke might not have been quite as funny if the man said he was in tomato sauce .
Well there would have been a pause, they would have said "they usually come in oil don't they? Oh, but they do come in tomato sauce as well! Aaah, I should never have doubted Tom O Conner!!"
By a coincidence I had sardines on toast tonight, but they were in salt water, not oil. Brine, rather than oil. There was no oil apart from from the fish itself. it wasn't oil that had been added. The bread toasted was white, as it happened, to soak up the oil from the fish, but not any added oil.
You know how as your parents age, they tend to repeat the same things over and over again, like old stories, opinions, or experiences they had? I feel like Stew was subjected to this by his mum with the Tom O Connor bit and he got so frustrated after a while that this washed up guy was held in higher regard than the deconstructivist arthouse comedy of his, that he decided to stretch the joke so that he could tell it in his own style, and therefore, gain the approval of his mum.
Some of the audience look as if they thought they were coming to see a different comedian...as dissapointed as my ex wife was when I took her to see a play in London starring Warren Mitchell...she was expecting Warren Beatty..she thought he'd let himself go....Im off to buy Sardines in mustard sauce...
This is Stewart taking a dig not only at cheap predictable "audience interaction" bits, but also at his *own* crappy stand-up from the late 90s / early 2000s, where he basically just made sarky comments about banal things.
@@mrbenoit5018apparently you can't daub racist slogans in your own excrement on your neighbours windows because a gypsy might be offended ⚡ it's political correctness gone mad stew 😜
Stewart Lee is a genius and so are we for liking him
He gave it to us straight, like pear cider made with 100% pears.
Love that the camera kept panning back to that couple that were not finding this amusing at all
Those were Stewart’s parents
They’d just been released from custody having been arrested for saying they’re English these days.
he was saying the same thing too many times. he should've given it to them straight, like pear cider that's made of 100% pears
Stewart Lee is like the dark souls of comedy
I love the random shots of certain audience members clearly not laughing
I think their friends gave them the tickets....
how do you know they were random?
@@sambucca98 yep...like it's real life.
They're Michael McIntyre fans.
Tom o Conner fans "say what you see"
The BBC has let Stewart Lee go
Stewart Lee has let himself go!
My scouse friend told me of a time when his mate was at a fete that Tom O'Connor was opening. He called to him and said he had a joke for him.. .Tom O'Connor called him up and said tell the joke. 'What's brown, lives up trees and tells jokes'.. Tom says 'go'ead lah, tell us'... Tom O'Conkor.
My friend wanted to take me to see Stewart Lee at the Edinburgh Fringe. I said “is he funny?” , he said “no he isn’t, but you will agree the fuck with it”. We didn’t go in the end.
the exhaustive variations he gets out of this and the tempo if the delivery are simply genius
Lee is a really clever and talented comedian. To repeat a bad joke over and over again and make it funny is an art
…but to keep at it so it becomes irritating before it becomes even funnier is pure craft.
Yes you are Stewart, no need to rub it in.
Letterman was a master of this craft too.
It's a good joke though
@@bustedfenderIt was a trip to Shilbottle that prompted this development in his career.
Tom O'Connor has really let himself go on cruises
I have a similar question but it is, "Are you an oil?"
It only really works if I meet someone called Olive.
You’ve seen em. On top of the pops.
The rappers?
The people that aren't laughing makes it even funnier.
they look like the kind of people that would enjoy a cruise holiday
So basically Stewart Lee, a stand up comedian (and I use that term advisedly), has stolen this joke about sardines from Tom O'Connor, and tried to pass it off as his own, despite not having even the most rudimentary fish canning machinery at home.
we are not worthy
Or even the rudimentary tools to write it down.
Haha. Get out of my garden
Yes but he delivered it like lightning.. out of a gun
@@pushthetempo2out of a hole
Bungle from _Rainbow_ has seriously let himself go.
The twist in this somewhat fishy-tale is that the man was actually from Cornwall, therefore making him a Pilchard! "Sardine" and "Pilchard" are common names that refer to various small, oily forage fish in the Herring family so Richard gets his oar in as well!
Tom O'Connor has let himself go, but glad that he's continuing to do the traditional fish-based, scouse comedy for which he is famous.
I'm used to seeing Stew's audience spread out on separate tables, they're all crammed in like sardines.
This is jazz!
Like Miles Davis has entered the room?
3:47 lol people bringing friends again...when will they learn?!
If you're here watching this for a 2nd time or more, you're a potential psycho
Oh fuck!
I'm here for the fourth time and I'm just back from burying 4 Michael McIntyre fans on top of a big hill, it's what they would've wanted.
@@raindog7733 well, I'm from Chile and I've watched this a few times trying to explain my friends how hilarious this is with no success. Must be that they're not English or they're not saying it cos these days if you say it you get arrested and thrown in jail
He came out stew like a wolf, oh he was quick stew...tom O'connor
I've lost count...
I like how he fucked the joke up at the start.
Seen that 😂
He did that on purpose for comic effect ⚡ SL
Because he's pretending to be his mum quoting the joke
Sardine lol
Personally, I think Its canned laughter. BOOM BOOM TISH.
that’s the key to it really.. 🙄
I could kill some sardines on toast right now, but not in oil, in tomato sauce. Tom o Connors joke might not have been quite as funny if the man said he was in tomato sauce .
And he said "Are you a chip?"
Well there would have been a pause, they would have said "they usually come in oil don't they? Oh, but they do come in tomato sauce as well! Aaah, I should never have doubted Tom O Conner!!"
Are you a baked bean? Surely 😂
LIKE ZEPHERUS THE WIND
liked Bill Hicks line about being a comedian and a poet so that if you dont laugh it was probably a poem
Orson Wells has let himself go.
Harry Hill’s grandfather has let himself go, with an Eskimo face from the 90’s.
At 3:46 is thinking "how much longer? please be over soon'
Ant and or Dec have really let themselves go.
By a coincidence I had sardines on toast tonight, but they were in salt water, not oil. Brine, rather than oil. There was no oil apart from from the fish itself. it wasn't oil that had been added. The bread toasted was white, as it happened, to soak up the oil from the fish, but not any added oil.
I found your comments to be inspirational.
Brilliant 😂
That Tom O’Connor was fast.
3:47 that woman is having the time of her tiny life.
You know how as your parents age, they tend to repeat the same things over and over again, like old stories, opinions, or experiences they had? I feel like Stew was subjected to this by his mum with the Tom O Connor bit and he got so frustrated after a while that this washed up guy was held in higher regard than the deconstructivist arthouse comedy of his, that he decided to stretch the joke so that he could tell it in his own style, and therefore, gain the approval of his mum.
Something about catching sardines and letting them go
What did that guy do for a living again?
The witty reply from Tom O'Connor, ironically, was funnier than this whole routine.
If you’d seen the whole routine you’d know it wasn’t Tom OConnor
I've always wondered if any individual I happened to meet was a sardine, but I've never had the requisite nervous disposition to ask.
I wish Tom O. Conner had went to Sardinia 😁
Some of the audience look as if they thought they were coming to see a different comedian...as dissapointed as my ex wife was when I took her to see a play in London starring Warren Mitchell...she was expecting Warren Beatty..she thought he'd let himself go....Im off to buy Sardines in mustard sauce...
Claire Balding has let herself go.
The ladies in the first row need to catch up quick, I believe this is supposed to be the funny bit, the rest is hard going…
Great use of an English degree.
Can you give an example of what an English degree should be used for?
So he just repeats a variation of the same sentence?
he came out
The nerve of him to just steal material from Tom O'Connor and charge people money for it.
Turns out it wasn’t Tom OConnor
This is Stewart taking a dig not only at cheap predictable "audience interaction" bits, but also at his *own* crappy stand-up from the late 90s / early 2000s, where he basically just made sarky comments about banal things.
There’s canned laughter on this. Why?
its for the sardine !
Cos it's in oil
2:42 "If he's said to him 'you're a man', it just would've been an observation of fact."
That's bigotry in the current year.
Go away
AHAHAAHAHAAAAA YOU'RE SO FUCKING FUNNY AND NOT A WORTHLESS PERSON AT ALLLLLL
It’s the woke brigade, Stew, theyre saying you can’t have chriprodists broth anymore, in case a transgender person sees it
@@mrbenoit5018apparently you can't daub racist slogans in your own excrement on your neighbours windows because a gypsy might be offended ⚡ it's political correctness gone mad stew 😜
Well, it's now the following year and what you've said there is still nauseatingly uneducated and stupifyingly daft.
Not a sardine. Or funny.
That sardine joke could have actually been really funny if it was well timed and said properly
Point missed.
His whole act is a cover for his inability to deliver a joke
@@Healden1 point missed...again.
Weren't you paying attention? He was quick, it was hilarious
F his politics but he is otherwise funny 😀