Saw him recently doing Tornado/Snowflake. 2.5 hours of the best stand up I have ever seen. I get that he is an acquired taste but for me there is no better comedian.
If there weren't already enough reasons to despise living in America, the high unlikelihood of ever getting to see Stew live really puts the icing on the fudge abortion clinic.
He fucked up my comedic taste. I wrote a short routine similar in style to Lee's approach just to fuck with the audience and get used to silence without getting stressed the fuck out... They laughed...
That's true. I do find Ricky Gervais funny I'll admit that, but it's not funny on the same level as Stewart Lee. Ricky Gervais is funny because he is brazen and has no fear, Stewart Lee is funny because he's thoughtful and has no fear. I prefer Stewart Lee over any comedian, but I still find other people funny.
I was at this recording, at some scuffed-armchair working men's club in Stoke Newington. Queued for hours, but the room was full, so we could only get into the ballroom upstairs (where Stewart Lee wasn't). We watched him streaming (no pun intended) from a big projector screen. Basically I watched this RUclips video live, only I was 20 feet from the screen and had to pay £5.20 a pint (in 2015!) for the privilege. Still, I wasn't upset. It didn't affect me in the slightest. I wish there were an idiom for such a situation.
I fell into this comment so much so that I tuned out of the video playing above it. You have earned the right to create the aforementioned idiom. Work at it, you owe me, because this comment has caused me to reflect on the cost of beers from New Jersey to San Francisco and fifteen dollars is too much and a bottle is not a pint and I’m listening to urine-themed comedy now. Some of us need the idiom.
@@Lauren-Algonquin $15 bloody dollars ! fm that's extortion ! Ah well, urine themed is but one of the many lesser trod comedic pathways Mr Lee guides us down, with rare aplomb. Reflect upon that my friend and take heart.
I keep coming back to all of Stewart's routines but I must say this one really is a banger. I think it really shows how he can abuse and belittle a crowd and lose his shit and we still love him and think he is as funny as Fk. Also how well he crafts his sets to perfection. His theatrics and his ability to emote. The way he can elicit a reaction from the crowd and then respond as if it is all spontaneous and he hasn't steered the audience into reaction in the first place. Until I found Stewart, I really didn't realise how much crafting can go into a comedy routine. This man is a genius at it. A lot of other comedians have eventually bored me. In that, I either no longer re-watch a routine because I no longer laugh or I just lose interest in watching their new work at all. This man makes me laugh hard no matter how often I watch his routines. Even the stuff he scolds the audience for laughing at. I really love how he says, "Dog." in a high pitched voice. Truly my favourite comedian.
I do have the sense that this comment section is too cool to just admit that is so much fun. It's a journey that improves with every there and back again. Like a walk to the local chippy.
What is interesting about this show is that by the 4th series, Lee had won awards for this series, which had a big impact on his life. So the front rows were likely filled with 'liggers', i.e. people who got front row seats from people they knew at the BBC, maybe some BBC execs. And many of them (About 6 or 7 of 12 - mostly middle-aged, middle class men) barely laughed and never clapped during this entire show. I think Lee called them out as he knew this was his last series for the BBC. I suspect he planned this from series 3, where he was much more unhinged and extreme, and as a result I think he didn't get renewed for a season 5. I know he got a two season deal after the huge success of season 2 because he talked about it in interviews. But clearly season 5 didn't happen. Why? Perhaps due to the unrealistic demands of the BBC. So he seemed to run out of good material for season 3 due to endless touring (Carpet Remnant World) which made series 3 weird as he couldn't re-use all of that material - some of it comes up in S2 and S3. But S3 seemed rushed and almost improvised, even if there were great moments. Because the BBC demanded he meet their deadlines, I reckon. Big mistake. After parting ways with the BBC for this series, his subsequent show was sarcastically called Content Provider, a parody of comedians having to work for corporations like the BBC proving. He was proving he is a hardcore comedian. Even if it wasn't great material like Carpet Remnant World, he held his ground. Few know that prior to Content Provider, Lee had toured a show that totally bombed after this season. He has removed all YT recordings of it, can't remember the name of the show, but it did well because of S4 of Stand Up being good. But I heard an audio recording of it, and it was awful (I love 90% of everything Lee has done), all new, probably rushed, material. It was really abstract, more like prose and stories, barely any laughs. Like he followed through on his promise from Carpet World to get rid of his mainstream audience. Crazy if true, but bands have done similar things. Then two years later he makes Content Provider, and it's new + recycled old material - getting him a one off BBC special. No-one mentions the failed tour and abandoned material in-between. This goes to show how difficult comedy is as an art form. Lee isn't a machine of genius. It takes time, rehearasal. Somtimes it just doesn't work. But he's not given up. And I love that he's allowed these videos from being taken down. Most comedians don't as it costs them on their DVD sales. The BBC just claims any ad rev rather than copyright striking. That might be due to Lee. Is so, fucking bravo. But he's got a new show, postponed due to Covid - by over a year. I bet it's totally different to how he started writing it. Can't wait. Still got my ticket for the 1.5 year postponed tour.
Thanks for taking the time to give that insightful critique. This show wasn't easy to watch, but then again, it's also great to see Stewart Lee fail occasionally, as he does it with such great aplomb.
Totally agree, I was going to write basically the same comment. So instead I wrote a little true story of being at a gig of his a couple of years ago. P E A C E : )
Enjoying the fact that we few enthusiasts are still as smug at recognising his deconstructing mainstream and laughing at us…is a bit weird….. One day his art will be recognised…I hope we have all dropped him by then, just to make him happy….
I’m worried that he will do a Dylan, go electric and never do Scooby do, Pirates, and Top Gear again….perhaps a Live at the Apollo, no false indignation , just trying to please really….. Oh it’s all so hopeless….
Yeah - really exemplifies his approach, most comics start on their second best joke and end on their best joke. Stew tells one joke, and thats the routine.
He makes an aside at the start about how it's not going to be all about urine. His fans know that it couldn't be - it's just the jumpoff. Then he does a set that has urine as its central premise.
fuck maaaaaaaan i didn know this guy existed before today when i saw the clip of him slagging off james corden! this shit hits me so hard, like he is the PERFECT example of what ive been desperately reaching for in dark comedy. his own lived experience, not shitting on vulnerable people. its exactly what i wanted. such good fortune i havent offed myself before finding him ❤
i know he’s very different but louis ck’s standup is solid too. you might enjoy tom segura too. he also has a great podcast. early tim jeffries standup was great too.
23:34 and the following 'to camera' monologue is wonderfully dark and sardonic... and then the abrupt cut back to 'Live at the Apollo' patter... Just fantastic
Watching Fist of Fun back in the early 90s, I NEVER in a million years would have thought Stewart Lee would turn out to be this funny or clever (I only watched FOF for Kevin Eldon).
@@-xirx- : he’s evoking both pathos and bathos in equal measure to leave you as an emotional wreck. I really will have to go to a Stuart Lee gig one day.
I walk onto the stage every night through a forest of ghosts....a great example of comedy turning to poetry in the face of a horrible audience. They deserve it.
The best line in this is "A piece of wedding cake. A sample of their urine". He doesn't deliver it for a laugh but it's objectively the funniest thing in it.
"This is this" part with Morris is paraphrase from Deer Hunter with Robert DeNiro, about only one bullet that does the thing, the one that you have and the one that will kill you.
i keep on hearing comedians bring up montreal, which is much closer than toronto, but so far ive only traveled to toronto twice to see comedy outside ottawa. i gotta get out there! james acaster & daniel sloss. saw some very rough amateur stuff in ottawa too HEHE. im very picky, i cant lie.
He's making a joke about the phrase "like a child's urine off an old man's face". Mark Watson is livid. It's an old Welsh saying that he'd heard as a child used by his family. It's a folksy turn of phrase they'd use all the time. But now he can't use it because Stuart Lee stole it to prop up his flailing comedy act! He'd hoped to teach his sons that phrase!
It's a vintage reference now. Did you see the Richard Herring interview? Watson dug himself a hole and filled it with one of every flavour of moral rationalisation. Herring eventually took pity and made some wank jokes to change the topic, but wow it was brutal
I was there for the filming, sitting at the back just behind a few cackling sycophants. He was in fact very rude to the audience; it sounded more like an aggressive lecture. You wouldn't know 'cause some of the worst bits have been cut for TV. But I didn't really mind, he was just giving it to us straight, like a pear cider that is made from 100% pears.
Two things are guaranteed when I watch a Stewart Lee video on here: (1) no jokes that I can properly belly laugh at, (2) the comments section full of giggling sycophants, and (3) lame variations on the theme of 100% pear cider has let itself go.
@@eridgeboy Well, I remember something? I think, wether or not it was metaphysical or real or both is at this stage hard to tell but I do remember remembering something to do with Vics vapour rub bobbing about in a little chef in a carpet world.
i cant lie, i did my weird little mentally ill laugh at the suicide jokes. i wouldve been so obnoxious in that audience! Nobody laughing, just me going "EEEH HEEE HEEE"
Saw him recently doing Tornado/Snowflake. 2.5 hours of the best stand up I have ever seen. I get that he is an acquired taste but for me there is no better comedian.
If there weren't already enough reasons to despise living in America, the high unlikelihood of ever getting to see Stew live really puts the icing on the fudge abortion clinic.
I saw him in edinburgh. He looked fat and depressed
I have to agree with you sir. I think tornado/snowflake is his best work so far.
He fucked up my comedic taste. I wrote a short routine similar in style to Lee's approach just to fuck with the audience and get used to silence without getting stressed the fuck out... They laughed...
@@jeremymusk л
"A cackling sycophant would have loved that seat"! 😆
Of all his shows, this is the one I keep coming back to. Sheer genius it really is.
Is that it?
Stewart Lee is the comedian that Ricky Gervais wants to be.
Ricky Gervais is too sure of himself. He really believes he has answers to help the world. Stewart Lee projects more doubt. “Let doubt prevail!”
Is that weird sycophantic laugh Kevin Eldon?
That's true. I do find Ricky Gervais funny I'll admit that, but it's not funny on the same level as Stewart Lee. Ricky Gervais is funny because he is brazen and has no fear, Stewart Lee is funny because he's thoughtful and has no fear. I prefer Stewart Lee over any comedian, but I still find other people funny.
Literally 😂
They have two completely different styles of comedy.
Chris Morris making Stew cry with laughter is the icing on the cake.
Urinal cake?
@@zeeox Just a little bit then
Chris Morris shaking with laughter is pretty good too
I was at this recording, at some scuffed-armchair working men's club in Stoke Newington. Queued for hours, but the room was full, so we could only get into the ballroom upstairs (where Stewart Lee wasn't). We watched him streaming (no pun intended) from a big projector screen.
Basically I watched this RUclips video live, only I was 20 feet from the screen and had to pay £5.20 a pint (in 2015!) for the privilege.
Still, I wasn't upset. It didn't affect me in the slightest. I wish there were an idiom for such a situation.
I appreciate you giving it to us straight
I fell into this comment so much so that I tuned out of the video playing above it. You have earned the right to create the aforementioned idiom. Work at it, you owe me, because this comment has caused me to reflect on the cost of beers from New Jersey to San Francisco and fifteen dollars is too much and a bottle is not a pint and I’m listening to urine-themed comedy now. Some of us need the idiom.
5 young queens for a pint? It's a robbery in daylight.
@@Lauren-Algonquin $15 bloody dollars ! fm that's extortion ! Ah well, urine themed is but one of the many lesser trod comedic pathways Mr Lee guides us down, with rare aplomb. Reflect upon that my friend and take heart.
@@andrewt836 ...like Pear Cider that's made from 100% Pears.
I keep coming back to all of Stewart's routines but I must say this one really is a banger. I think it really shows how he can abuse and belittle a crowd and lose his shit and we still love him and think he is as funny as Fk. Also how well he crafts his sets to perfection. His theatrics and his ability to emote. The way he can elicit a reaction from the crowd and then respond as if it is all spontaneous and he hasn't steered the audience into reaction in the first place. Until I found Stewart, I really didn't realise how much crafting can go into a comedy routine. This man is a genius at it. A lot of other comedians have eventually bored me. In that, I either no longer re-watch a routine because I no longer laugh or I just lose interest in watching their new work at all. This man makes me laugh hard no matter how often I watch his routines. Even the stuff he scolds the audience for laughing at. I really love how he says, "Dog." in a high pitched voice. Truly my favourite comedian.
This guy is the best. The pinnacle of what stand-up should be. Absolute genius.
Wanker...
I’ve seen this several times and I still enjoy it immensely. He’s timeless
The funniest comedy routine I have ever seen. Absolute genius Stewart 👏
His ability to switch and shift topic and seemingly improvise from the audience reaction is something to behold.
He very rarely improvises. That's his skill. He manipulates the audience, so it seems off the cuff, but it's all planned.
"a cackling sycophant would have loved that seat" hahahahaha
There are levels to the craft of stand up. Stewart Lee simply let’s us discover more of them. Just brilliant.
This episode is legendary
Been quoting some of these lines with friends for years
Like a pear cider
You mean to a mirror, the same as Travis Bickle?
No, with friends
I do have the sense that this comment section is too cool to just admit that is so much fun. It's a journey that improves with every there and back again. Like a walk to the local chippy.
What is interesting about this show is that by the 4th series, Lee had won awards for this series, which had a big impact on his life. So the front rows were likely filled with 'liggers', i.e. people who got front row seats from people they knew at the BBC, maybe some BBC execs. And many of them (About 6 or 7 of 12 - mostly middle-aged, middle class men) barely laughed and never clapped during this entire show. I think Lee called them out as he knew this was his last series for the BBC.
I suspect he planned this from series 3, where he was much more unhinged and extreme, and as a result I think he didn't get renewed for a season 5. I know he got a two season deal after the huge success of season 2 because he talked about it in interviews. But clearly season 5 didn't happen. Why?
Perhaps due to the unrealistic demands of the BBC. So he seemed to run out of good material for season 3 due to endless touring (Carpet Remnant World) which made series 3 weird as he couldn't re-use all of that material - some of it comes up in S2 and S3. But S3 seemed rushed and almost improvised, even if there were great moments. Because the BBC demanded he meet their deadlines, I reckon. Big mistake.
After parting ways with the BBC for this series, his subsequent show was sarcastically called Content Provider, a parody of comedians having to work for corporations like the BBC proving. He was proving he is a hardcore comedian. Even if it wasn't great material like Carpet Remnant World, he held his ground.
Few know that prior to Content Provider, Lee had toured a show that totally bombed after this season. He has removed all YT recordings of it, can't remember the name of the show, but it did well because of S4 of Stand Up being good. But I heard an audio recording of it, and it was awful (I love 90% of everything Lee has done), all new, probably rushed, material. It was really abstract, more like prose and stories, barely any laughs. Like he followed through on his promise from Carpet World to get rid of his mainstream audience. Crazy if true, but bands have done similar things.
Then two years later he makes Content Provider, and it's new + recycled old material - getting him a one off BBC special. No-one mentions the failed tour and abandoned material in-between. This goes to show how difficult comedy is as an art form. Lee isn't a machine of genius. It takes time, rehearasal. Somtimes it just doesn't work. But he's not given up. And I love that he's allowed these videos from being taken down. Most comedians don't as it costs them on their DVD sales. The BBC just claims any ad rev rather than copyright striking. That might be due to Lee. Is so, fucking bravo.
But he's got a new show, postponed due to Covid - by over a year. I bet it's totally different to how he started writing it. Can't wait. Still got my ticket for the 1.5 year postponed tour.
Thanks for taking the time to give that insightful critique. This show wasn't easy to watch, but then again, it's also great to see Stewart Lee fail occasionally, as he does it with such great aplomb.
@@gigmcsweeney8566 You do realise this was all on purpose, right? His "failing" is literally part of the gig.
Erm, yeah this was all an act and planned routine… I think it’s gone wayyyyy over your head mate
I kind of died of boredom before I got to the end of that.
But he always does jokes about people who have turned up by mistake. I also went to the work in progress shows where he tried out this material.
"Sometimes it's just all about what chair you are sitting in when the music stops." - that line is absolutely brutal.
😙👌
He’s a comedic genius. That routine is just brilliant.
He’s good…….
But he’s no Tom O’Connor
Rob, you've obviously never seen Joe Pasquale he's like the Kanye West of Stand Up Comedy 🤟
Totally agree, I was going to write basically the same comment. So instead I wrote a little true story of being at a gig of his a couple of years ago.
P E A C E : )
@@Torahboy1 'are you a sardine?' he came out stu...
@@jaydubzonward
I’m in oil
I don't know how this went from < 100 views in six years to over 3k in less than a week. But it pleases me.
The algorithms have raised their game.
Just popped up for me after watching Limmy talking about James Cordon on his stream.
Im guessing the criticisms both men have overlap.
glad to see people appreciating his level of comedy
Enjoying the fact that we few enthusiasts are still as smug at recognising his deconstructing mainstream and laughing at us…is a bit weird…..
One day his art will be recognised…I hope we have all dropped him by then, just to make him happy….
I’m worried that he will do a Dylan, go electric and never do Scooby do, Pirates, and Top Gear again….perhaps a Live at the Apollo, no false indignation , just trying to please really…..
Oh it’s all so hopeless….
“… I was 28 years old” is the same as “…then I got off the bus”
He just needs to be 100% straight up with us. Like pear cider made from 100% pears
"Then I got off the bus..ahhhhhhhh" No not Aahhhh. lol
100% pear.
Not to quibble, but it's the singular
😊
@@SerendipityChild
What? One HUGE pear?
@@Torahboy1 quite a thing to contemplate .. a singular pear.
:) just a little homophonic pun
That? Still? You're still typing that?
I used to like standup comedy, but now I like only Stewart Lee. He’s as good as killing the audience comedians.
i think this is genuinely one of the best pieces of stand-up i've ever seen
This is possibly his finest routine...and that's saying something. Genius.
Yeah - really exemplifies his approach, most comics start on their second best joke and end on their best joke. Stew tells one joke, and thats the routine.
The "walking through a forest of ghosts to see...you" line is a line one can savor for a long time. Like a piece of gum that doesn't lose its flavor.
It really is. It's even funny that it's not ironic that his best work doesn't get as many laughs as many of his other sets.
There's a better delivered version, i think it's from one of his recorded tours rather than Comedy Vehicle.
He makes an aside at the start about how it's not going to be all about urine. His fans know that it couldn't be - it's just the jumpoff. Then he does a set that has urine as its central premise.
Chris morris is a gem. Love his bits in this.
So funny watching him and Chris Morris cracking up at the end lol
I love intelligent comedy! Only very recently started to watch (hear) or even become aware of Stewart Lee. I really like this :)
fuck maaaaaaaan i didn know this guy existed before today when i saw the clip of him slagging off james corden! this shit hits me so hard, like he is the PERFECT example of what ive been desperately reaching for in dark comedy. his own lived experience, not shitting on vulnerable people. its exactly what i wanted. such good fortune i havent offed myself before finding him ❤
Mate he's the best, alternative indie comedy. Sometimes gets so weird and crazy but it's also genius
He’s let himself go, though, no?
i know he’s very different but louis ck’s standup is solid too. you might enjoy tom segura too. he also has a great podcast.
early tim jeffries standup was great too.
@@feralmode good ol' Tim Jeffries, the kiwi guy right? Arch nemesis of Jim Jeffries?
@@Dob_Ogurt that’ll be the one. his alter ego and a far superior comic if the truth be told.
The comment section has said it numerous times but let me reiterate ,Stewart Lee is a comedy genius
Never seen a comedian alienate themselves so gracefully, truly one of a kind
That Robin Williams line is f*cking incredible 😂
He would have liked it!
23:34 and the following 'to camera' monologue is wonderfully dark and sardonic... and then the abrupt cut back to 'Live at the Apollo' patter... Just fantastic
"Forest of ghosts" is the pinnacle.of this episode.
"Join us, join us, join us...."
I watched this a week ago and it's still getting recommended to me every time I open this app. RUclips loves this video suddenly...
He's definitely the 41st best stand up. By miles 😅
Watched it twice in one day and still laughed. Genius!
I'd love to say this was piss poor , but he simply is one of the funniest guys on the planet.
So it's piss delightful then?
A masterclass in crowd control
This is the closest I've ever seen Chris Morris come to genuinely laughing on camera
He didn't like it but he had to go along with it
Ha! Where is the scene where they're both laughing at 'something happened...'
Stu loves all the comedians,that bloke from Leicester
Watching Fist of Fun back in the early 90s, I NEVER in a million years would have thought Stewart Lee would turn out to be this funny or clever (I only watched FOF for Kevin Eldon).
Are you referring to the actor Kevin Eldon?
Always come back to this. A powerful routine.
This is this.
Love that *this* kicks off with Chris Morris, another who turned reality inside out to make us laugh.
He’s right, you know. This is this. I’ve looked at everything else and it isn’t any of that.
It's not really a comedy routine it's a confession, beautiful in many ways
Watched again and again and it just gets better.
Just like pear cider
I’ve watched this routine like 5 times, for some reason I just can’t get enough.
this is hilarious and depressing at the same time i'm not sure how that's possible
Can't decide if it's hilariously depressing, or depressingly hilarious.
@@-xirx- : he’s evoking both pathos and bathos in equal measure to leave you as an emotional wreck. I really will have to go to a Stuart Lee gig one day.
It's like pear cider
Sad comedy?
@@-xirx- It's delariously hipressing.
I walk onto the stage every night through a forest of ghosts....a great example of comedy turning to poetry in the face of a horrible audience. They deserve it.
Only Stewart Lee can make people not getting his comedy and deriding those who do get it funny, is brilliant.
There a cackling sycophants who would love that seat!
Ko,s😅
he is the greatest comic, storyteller the world, ever.
I love music and art, but I think Stewart Lee is the greatest artist of all time.
Stewart lee is just too good.
Like pear cider
My favourite comedian with a pulse
@22:16 - ‘THIS IS BEING FILMED!’ makes me laugh SO much.
😂😂😂😂
Saw him live last week, brilliant as ever :))
The morrissey of comedy ( both brilliant) 👏
Sat here alone worrying that I might be being cheated on as my partner is on a night out, Stewart Lee’s urine story cheered me right up; thanks!
same
Hope everything's OK.
Split up. You can't be wasting your time worrying like that
It doesn’t get much better than this.
Mitch Hedberg RIP
"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too...'
It really does
@Wee Red Fox No it doesn't.
why did you randomly name another comic?
@@garymct6860 it’s not random - listen to Stew
Mentioning Lenny Bruce a coupl’a times, then channeling him …
Lovely piece of set-up and Timing.
ThanX fo posting this Will’ … you Ham :D
My favorite comedians make me laugh at things lkke "sometimes its what chair youre sitting in when the music stops".
Traffic wardens in Mel Square, the Digbeth flyover. This is a nostalgic glance back at a Birmingham of yore.
The best line in this is "A piece of wedding cake. A sample of their urine". He doesn't deliver it for a laugh but it's objectively the funniest thing in it.
Had me crying man! This is timeless, what a genius!
"This is this" part with Morris is paraphrase from Deer Hunter with Robert DeNiro, about only one bullet that does the thing, the one that you have and the one that will kill you.
One shot.
Nah
i keep on hearing comedians bring up montreal, which is much closer than toronto, but so far ive only traveled to toronto twice to see comedy outside ottawa. i gotta get out there! james acaster & daniel sloss. saw some very rough amateur stuff in ottawa too HEHE. im very picky, i cant lie.
This fella can - truly - make you laugh at anything.. and I mean ANYTHING!!
"you like that? the scraping?"
90s eskimo face…..has let himself go
A duplex lego man, that has been occasionally melted using a blowtorch for several seconds at a time...... has let himself go
A vision of Frankenstein's monster succumbed by the ravages of age as imagined by a drunken child, has let himself go
He's making a joke about the phrase "like a child's urine off an old man's face". Mark Watson is livid. It's an old Welsh saying that he'd heard as a child used by his family. It's a folksy turn of phrase they'd use all the time. But now he can't use it because Stuart Lee stole it to prop up his flailing comedy act! He'd hoped to teach his sons that phrase!
Like pear cider made of 100% pears.
I wonder how many get the reference.
@@GuusJanssen 90% of the comments under Stuart Lee's videos reference his standup. He's a human meme.
@@GuusJanssen Whenever I see Mark Watson, I think "John Oliver has really let himself go."
It's a vintage reference now.
Did you see the Richard Herring interview? Watson dug himself a hole and filled it with one of every flavour of moral rationalisation. Herring eventually took pity and made some wank jokes to change the topic, but wow it was brutal
Meh..its just boring family in joke
20:00 the little hop when he says hands! is perfect
Oh god he’s a genius and so am I because I like him.
more urinal jokes from stewart Lee,not the 9/11 urinal joke or the chino's urinal joke,but the bullied in a urinal joke,hes let himself go urinal joke
He is just absolutely brilliant!
I was there for the filming, sitting at the back just behind a few cackling sycophants. He was in fact very rude to the audience; it sounded more like an aggressive lecture. You wouldn't know 'cause some of the worst bits have been cut for TV. But I didn't really mind, he was just giving it to us straight, like a pear cider that is made from 100% pears.
He wasn't rude. It's an act.
Seculariranian, maybe you shouldn't have gone if you don't realise it's all an act, the abuse everything.
This is one of his finest sets.
This is pure genius at work on its finest craft
just brilliant, GOAT
Two things are guaranteed when I watch a Stewart Lee video on here: (1) no jokes that I can properly belly laugh at, (2) the comments section full of giggling sycophants, and (3) lame variations on the theme of 100% pear cider has let itself go.
But did you agree the fuck out of it, at least?
@@jeremymusk Yes, but in a smug condescending metropolitan liberal elite sense, that evaporated on contact with life north of Edmonton!
@@WinstonSmith-mu7ku Oh, you're no fun anymore.
We wouldn't have it any other way. That's how we know we're really really clever
"toxic to weasels" kills me.
And "visible otters" from earlier...
Yup.
Stewart Lee is brilliant 👍
Rest In Peace Robin Williams xx
I can relate to this more since the installation in garage toilets of the Dyson Air-Blade hand dryer.
Vic and Bob were the first to comment on comedians remembering stuff in their spoof of Masterchef.
You just wouldn't let it lie
Do you member vic n bob membering things?
@@eridgeboy Well, I remember something? I think, wether or not it was metaphysical or real or both is at this stage hard to tell but I do remember remembering something to do with Vics vapour rub bobbing about in a little chef in a carpet world.
Absolutely fantastic.
The blokes fucking fearless. I don't know another stand up who can do what he does, and that includes Frankie Boyle.
Wow that was absolutely amazing
I love how what you think is not the joke actually is the joke. He’s like Ronnie Corbett on mushrooms.
Pushes the envelope. Then takes a flamethrower to it. Then pole-vaults over the rest.
stewart lee is the closest most will get to a rich old uncle 🙆🏻♂️
I didnt even know Robbie Williams was dead. RIP.
Might get "this is this" as a tattoo
i cant lie, i did my weird little mentally ill laugh at the suicide jokes. i wouldve been so obnoxious in that audience! Nobody laughing, just me going "EEEH HEEE HEEE"
This is genius. This is this
I just clicked the little "i" in the corner that offers more information...... there's a link to a michael mcintyre show.
Observational comedy
No sharks falling out of clouds????
Of looking for Chapelle ... cuz I knows what I likes
Tornado and Snowflake. Just seen them. Great. Had forgotten about Stewart Lee but NOT NOW
look at that it isnt that
I was just thinking that
Get to Sheffield, it's got the biggest outdoor urinal in England
A master of his craft.
If he’d been a few years older. He would have been the lead singer . Of a groundbreaking death metal band.
Do you mean something like Napalm Death?
He's actually too funny
A sort of (more) intelligent Jack Dee. Magic!