Talking Books - Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - BBC Two

[reagansmash9000]

@ValuedComment my sentiments exactly thank you, :-)

[Jamesssgull]

i love stewart lee but i did like russell brand's autobiography, oh well

[RobertPageFilm]

@ValuedComment bit of a snobbish outlook. Little Britain's very funny, I find Stewart Lee much funnier. Almost as though those commissioning shows at the BBC would like to cater to different audiences...

[youknowsit45]

Great!

[GenericInsect1979]

Stewart Lee is just a pretentious petty cunt who is jealous that Dan Brown has become a rich success whilst he is in his twilight years rotting away in dank shithole comedy clubs. The guy needs to grow the fuck up and stop trying to indoctrinate people into his way of thinking just because he has nowhere near the talent or imagination of Dan Brown.

PS The Lost Symbol is awesome

[TheDensley7]

@GenericInsect1979 It's called comedy, you petty fucking cunt. Success doesn't stop Brown's work from being absolute fucking bilge. Dan Brown is the worst writer in print, if you can't see that, then you're probably a fan of him.

[GenericInsect1979]

@TheDensley7 You're so stupid you have to use my own insults against me as you're unable to think up you're own. You're not worth arguing with.

[TheDensley7]

@GenericInsect1979 Oh, so it was you who invented the phrase " petty fucking cunt" ? You are obviously retarded, you fucker.

[GenericInsect1979]

@TheDensley7 lol u mad

[ryansilvatapsyouout]

@GenericInsect1979 Ironically, Stuart's show could be described as an hilarious comeback. "lol u mad" couldn't...

[dochalliday08]

i think the fact that stewart lee has learned to harness his intelligence and smugness and turn it against people who boast of their intelligence and try to hold it over people as a weapon is a certain kind of genius that you rarely see nowadays. go stewart.

[zebras54]

Stewart Lee is brilliant because he is very articulate, intelligent and spot on, plus he's likeable.

[Danazawa]

Stewart Lee is a pompous, condescending bore, and he isn't remotely funny.

Oh yes, he also wrote a pretentious novel called `The Perfect Fool' - you wont have heard of it because nobody bought it and it brought him no acclaim whatsoever.

If smugness could be harnessed as a form of energy this man could help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

[chalkus]

@Danazawa <- is a retarded, backward fool who is frustrated that he/she doesn't get stewart lee and therefore doesn't builds an irrational dislike for him. Danazawa is intimidated by intelligence great than their own and hates it for that reason.

With regards to his novel, read it? probably not. with regards to your comment that it bought no acclaim, you are simply lying here (deliberately or not, it doesn't matter) but your inability to google before making statements is embarrassing

[Danazawa]

@chalkus Stewart Lee may be witless and obnoxious but he would abhor your use of the words `retarded', and `backward'. He sneers at `low' literature and claims to have read the entire works of William Blake - he obviously completely missed one of the great themes of Blake: a love and respect for all humanity.

[chalkus]

@Danazawa just because one reads, does not mean one agrees.

well now you're speaking for a man that you are intimidated by.... interesting concept. you seem to respect the man more than you think.

I suggest that what you perceive you dislike in Stewart Lee are, in fact, the frailties in your own character.

anyway, read the novel??

[Danazawa]

@chalkus No, I dont respect him at all, I would have thought that was clear. And I'm not intimidated? - just irritated. I have not read the book all the way through - as I said it is pretentious, badly written, bollocks - just a chapter or two - if you dont believe me buy a copy, but be quick it will be going out of print very soon.

If you want to read some other rotten novels by comedians who fancy themselves intellectual David Baddiel and Rob Newman have written some dreadful books too.

[chalkus]

@Danazawa I have read the book and I like it. you find him pretentious because he holds values that you wish you could. shame for you.

You respond in cliches and no substance

[adamtzsch]

@Danazawa Ha ha ha...fuck off.

[Danazawa]

Stewart Lee is a pompous, condescending bore, and he isn't remotely funny.

Oh yeah, he also wrote a pretentious novel called `The Perfect Fool' - nobody bought it and it brought him no acclaim whatsoever.

[milenko1234567]

does anyone know the name of the song at the end of stuart lee comedy vehicle in the credits

[iamborodave]

"Tom Hark" by The Piranas

[thelisterinegame]

the version used for this show is the original by elias and his zig-zag jive flutes

[ambientend]

I hope to buggery it gets another series (or ten). I would pay my TV license just for more of this.

[HAETMUNGOR]

0:54

[Reverence8642]

What, because he doesn't run around shouting and stuff, or go mocking the disabled, in a cloak of faux-post-modern-irony type obnoxious plagiarism way, like Ricky please-call-me-a-cunt Gervais?

[asubjectiveopinion]

That was just gibberish and gibberish with inappropriate capitalisation, at that.

[pieaficionado]

As good as this show is it will probably be cancelled because not enough people have tuned in to watch it.

Because he doesn't repeat catchphrases over and over again he won't be seen as 'funny'.

The last time the BBC did anything funny was Monkey Dust.The BBC can come up the goods when they want to.

[GroundskeeperRonnie]

I thought that too after the first couple of shows but I apparently it's been watched again and again on I player so hopefully It will get another series (or ten). The show about political correctness was my fave. One of the best things on tv right now.

[asubjectiveopinion]

You've hit the nail on the head.

The BBC commissions so many comedy programmes that start promisingly and then just descend into the same repetitive catch-phrase based set-up.

Far too many shows just try to develop an existing Edinburgh show into a TV programme by slightly tweaking the same gag six times so that they can have a series out of it without having to write new material.

What's needed is some originality...get Simon Munnery back on the telly!

[BelvisTheFirst]

by the end of its run it was the second most watched series on the bbciplayer

I shit you not.

[Lp2407]

u just dont understand his subtle comedy

[youngian67]

Shamefully I'd forgotten how good Stewart Lee was.

He has joined my very short must see on TV list with Paxman, Tina Fey and Vic Mackey.

I'm even tempted to pick up a Dan Brown book for its comic potential- minutes of fun, two hours of agony

[Jez32uk]

I was actually lambasted for dismissing The Da Vinci Code as unreadable, by people who actually had degrees and lauded them over me as if i was less of a person than them for not having one... i showed them my protractor but they were having none of it.

[ValuedComment]

Stweart Lee's an intelligent, articulate, funny man. Imagine how little this programme cost compared to the piece of crap that Horne & Corden are trying to class as a 'comedy show'.

I'll take a wild guess here, but I'd say that 99% of the negative comments here are coming from people who have never heard of Bill Hicks, but think that saying "I want that one!" makes them look like a comedy legend.

They're probably thumbing through their Little Britain DVD collection as we speak...

[SuperYellafella]

NCFC

[EnglishCanary]

OTBC!

[djdetox84]

COYY!!

[SuperYellafella]

OTBC!

[BrokenBaculum]

@ValuedComment I agree with every single point you've made. 

[YoureAbsolutelyRight]

Where is the rest of this, that was on television?

cheers.

[deepfriedsquirrel]

how much must they pay the audience?

[GreenORK09]

Russell Brand is shit.

[kentrel2]

Wow, this hack has some balls ripping into Russell Brand - a far sharper and more original comedian than he is

[asubjectiveopinion]

Is Russell Brand meant to be a comedian? I thought he was just a presenter?

Do you have proof for this assertion?

[BezoomnyBratchny]

He's done quite a bit of standup. He has a couple of DVD's out (Shame and Doing Life) and another one being released somewhere around christmas.

[BeetzartMusic]

Russel Brand can't make any joke that isn't related to his penis.

[thomzas]

It's grumpy old men, the live show!!

Kevin Eldon is great, though.

[scrumpled]

Does anyone know who that man is (with the wife) from 1:12 onwards? I've seen him before!

[BrianBlessedO]

Gary Putner, from Look Around You and various other things. He and Kevin Eldon, who appears later in one of the other sketch inserts, have had a lot of parts in Lee and Herring stuff.

[halogen123]

I'm quite sure it's Little Britain, in that scene with the fat fighters.

[sanjuro4]

Thank god some decent comedy on the BBC again.

[waylander1978]

Stewart Lee is quite amusing. But his rant against Dan Brown does sound a bit like sour grapes to me.

[djorcks95]

Not exactly the funniest man in the world but good. An intellectual man.

[Pims1eur]

i suppose i will get thumbs down for my opinion but for a man that comes across as intellectually as he does his material suffers because of it, when he goes on for five minutes milking the "you know, the rappers from the top of the pops and they do a little rap" you know he is an intelligent man but that hole gag only works if you didn't know he was an intellectual man and trying to come across as a cool dad doesn't work... that is just my opinion so don't burn me for it!

[chris12dec]

Even as a fan of Lee, I agree that that particular piece of material was weak. The 'old man not knowing about rap music' joke is very dated and he used his old repetition technique to bump up the humour level, but to be honest it wasn't very creative.

I will add though, I thought the whole concept of the show was very original, him talking to the camera occasionally and the sketches to compliment the material.

I will say though that I don't like the set they used. It should be a wine bar!

[Pims1eur]

i do enjoy stand up with sketches they offer something more than just watching a man on stage, i want to like him but personally i found that episode to be more of a "look how stupid this person is and look how intelligent i am" without that though he has some good and intelligent jokes that i can appreciate! don't burn me on my opinion! (and ty for the comment rather than just a thumbs down!)

[chris12dec]

Why do you give a fuck if someone gives you a thumbs down?

I tell you something though... nothing can even touch what was on before Stewart Lee for being as funny as a death in the family: Mitchell and Webb. It's shocking to believe that that was a 15 minute highlight package of a previous show. What must the other 15 minutes have been like? If Webb hadn't have been pulling Micheal Jackson moves to Flashdance a few weeks earlier, they would have consigned that series to the shit heap.

[BRIGSTOCK]

great to have someone intelligent and well read on prime time TV- don't let morons persudae the TV executives to fill up British TV with Cilla Black and pop idol. We don't want to end up like the USA

[IGotBannedAgainFTM]

Agreed, before this show I has only seen one clip of Stewart Lee. But I watched it and he is very funny, and intelligent. Good show.

[rhys21kipling]

i watched this last night it was not even funny

[sozzers]

"i watched this last night it was not even funny "

lolz he didn't make one joke about football or anything lolz

[willstokes123]

stewart lee is fucking amazing, im so glad he has a TV series, legend

[dakingcool]

yes in ur moms room

[zzxzqwq]

My mum is not gay. She does not even know you. I am in bed with your mum. It was fun.

[zzxzqwq]

Why is someone gay above you. are you in bed?