Stewart Lee's Apple Shop Sketch

[thisisacunt]

i feel like this every day things are so hard now

[Aaran225]

What the hell is this piece of shit the best thing I've ever seen ever I hate Stewart Lee and his stupid hair he is amazing and the funniest stand up comedian in the world fatter than he was funnier too.

[gamerunknown]

This seems a bit gratuitous along broken window fallacy lines

[ThisVideoGetsMeMoist]

Thanks for the insight, I missed that bit.

[ThisVideoGetsMeMoist]

Self concious intellectualism? I must retreat and ponder this sketch.

[Hewasvertical]

This is really astonishing. The victim, driven mad by the inane 70s style, ends up destroying the set (whilst taunted by a comedy trombone) and in his despair, begins to disrobe (tears rolling down my face). Kevin Eldon has a huge range; playing a confident coffin gift-giver (in Jam) to a bewildered, yet wise in his own mind, farmer (in SLCR’s Del Boy Sketch). Paul Putner is equally brilliant, and was wasted in Little Britain: a non-self-aware apple shop sketch. Burn this into my retinas.

[ThisVideoGetsMeMoist]

@Hewasvertical 'The victim, driven mad by the inane 70s style, ends up destroying the set (whilst taunted by a comedy trombone'

Thankns for the insight. I missed that bit.

[jeaniebthe1]

That made me feel poorly

[BritishArrow]

Stewart Lee's stand up is incredible, I didn't like this sketch tho to be honest.

[markyboy27able]

this is shit! i was waiting for twist or ironic satire.. but its just complete shit.

[kidschwid]

@markyboy27able This is a sketch from Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. It's much better in the context of the episode.

[markyboy27able]

@kidschwid Mr. Lee should have made his episode 4mins 54 seconds shorter to retain his standards. 

[mrcuddles100]

The actor Kevin Eldon at his very best

[ShoeLube]

I wonder how much of the end was rehearsed or planned out

[zilbiol]

maximum overtroll xD

[afro10k]

This is the first time i've seen from this show on youtube, very nice. pythonesque into the twist into absurdity.

[Thunderwolf666]

It's a mockery of tawdry generic comedy which ends in utter absurdism. Very Spike Milligan-esque in delivery, and absolutely superb performance from all involved. Kevin Eldon needs more roles.

[CrazyEddi3]

1:47 is a total spoof of Two ronnies.

[iamlawrencebricher]

I took this sketch to be a mocking of the sort of people who say "it's bureaucracy gone mad", rather than a statement on the nature of bureaucracy itself but i suppose there's multiple layers

[Spectrophilia]

Keep pressing 5...

[fritspas]

It does need the context of his travellodge skit I think.

[IINesasta]

@Timeofflux

Admittedly it's not the best thing Stewart Lee has ever done... not saying it's bad, just he’s done better stuff.

But you should watch more of his stuff and maybe you'd understand it better.

Not everyone gets him the first time round I suppose.

[megamarsvin]

@IINesasta Felt more like a tribute than a parody to me ;)

His sketches aren't the best, but mostly because by comparison his standup is so brilliant I think ^^

[IINesasta]

@Timeofflux

Monty Python is British humour.

And It isn't trying to be that, It's taking the piss out of those types of sketches... it's parodying them if anything.

[IINesasta]

@Timeofflux

Thing is with our comedy. It's the most unpatronizing form of comedy, you have to wok it out by your self alot of the time.

And if you can't do that; just stick to the penis gags...

[Swarmking]

This is just marvellous. Why can't my place of work be like this? Driving customers to the point of absurd lunacy while a trombone player follows, playing the perfect backing music to the chaos!

[mrpranny]

wouldnt he prefer a CURIOUS ORANGE!

[akf2000]

honestly laughed until my face hurt, hyperbolic madness, taking it too far then further until it warps back around on itself.

[thisisacunt]

thhis is how i feel at the job centre

[Jadell]

THIS IS GENIUS!!! Has anyone shown this to Michael Palin? He'd bloody love it....!

[gailbrand]

many thanks Mr Creator. I'm on @gail_brand on Twitter if you care to keep up with my tedious life! Watch out for me on the red button feature Stewart Lee's current show in a couple of weeks time

[kirkfnw]

@gailbrand Hi Gail,

Did you get a chance to speak to Stewart Lee at any point during filming? What was it like working with Kevin and Paul? Thanks in advance.

[gailbrand]

@kirkfnw they are all lovely people, as you might expect, very funny and warm.

[ThisVideoGetsMeMoist]

@kirkfnw She even breathed the same air and shat on the same loo.

[ThisVideoGetsMeMoist]

@gailbrand Face me?

[Wickerbasket]

How they kept a straight face through this I have no idea.

[EnEyeKayy]

Rage quit!

[josefvickers]

Kevin fucking Eldon. So sublime, so perfect.

[danmcdaid]

@josefvickers I think you mean The Actor Kevin (fucking) Eldon. Or possibly "Monkey-Faced Man" :)

[dundee520]

hahahahaha great  - thanks 4 sharing

[dayglowjoe]

Aaaah hilarious!!!!

[massiveants]

what a waste of all those lovely apples.

[dfarmbrough]

YouTube has kindly suggested I watch Monty Python's Cheese Shop Sketch after this. I think they've missed the point!

[gailbrand]

thanks to Freddiesausage for your kind email !

Gail

[imjackcooper]

Who's the jazz comedian now?

[aewallace81]

Its political correctness gone mad stew.

[Jarren202]

I was not a big fan of the sketches on Comedy Vehicle, but this one really did excel.

Really captures the spirit of the 70's, like a perfect blend of Monty Python and the Two Ronnies.

Fantastic!

[graemebdj]

slightly ripped off the Monty Python cheese sketch

[whiteheartmovies]

Je suis un musition Français. J'adore les pommes.... Pas vraiment. Je suis de Sunderland et, i comme l'orange curieux!

[hools258]

It's like a deleted scene from platoon.

[Nopperabou]

Truly great sketch. Perfect parody of Python.

[dfarmbrough]

@Nopperabou and The Two Ronnies. Specifically, it's Cheese Shop but also things like bookshop from the Contractual Obligation Album or many more. John Cleese called them "thesaurus sketches" where he and Graham Chapman (but mainly Graham Chapman) wrote long lists of synonyms or types of things for the other character to react to.

[SASR]

Paul Putner is an absolute hero.

[lakshmimittal]

Deconstruction anyone?

[marckthepar]

Sur les pavés- la plage!

[Dopplershift]

Brilliant, I didn't think they made good TV anymore.

[utar88utar]

hehe, yeah, i feel like that sometimes :]

stupidy of human race is killing me...

[roryphelan]

the world is fucked. It has nowhere else to go.

[ImSteveAllen]

holy shit! amazing, cant watch that finale without laughing!

[fragglet]

The Curious Orange buying some apples there..

[FATSLATER1]

Whhaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Whhaaaaahhhhhh!!! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The comedy trumpet. like never seen before.

[gailbrand]

it's a trombone. and it's me playing it :>)

[FATSLATER1]

Sorry trombone I meant. Is it? Really you playing it? Its hilarious!!

[gailbrand]

sorry for delay, I hardly look at Youtube these days but just got curious about the sketch...yes, tis me on trombone & thank you :)

[kirkfnw]

@gailbrand Thanks so much for alerting us of your presence. Happy New Year!

[dfarmbrough]

@gailbrand Ever man's dream. A woman who can play the trombone, who's been in a comedy show :-)

[FreddieSausage]

@gailbrand Grachan Moncur III meets George Chisholm.

Lovely stuff, Gail x

[PurushaDesa]

@gailbrand

Well then allow me to debase my gender even further by telling you that nothing gets me off quicker than a bad trombonist, playing to the destruction of a studio set, whilst shitting all over Daily Mail readers. I'm incredibly aroused right now madam, so thank you.

[gailbrand]

@PurushaDesa absolutely no offence taken by being described as a bad trombonist. Thanks mate.

[PurushaDesa]

@gailbrand

LOL. What can I say? I'm sure if it was something deadly serious like an embittered brass band member in Midsomer Murders, or Michael Bay's remake of Brassed Off, you would've played beautifully, whilst remaining every bit as psychotic.

[Wickerbasket]

@gailbrand How many takes did this take?!

[gailbrand]

@Wickerbasket just the one, you can only smash up a BBC set the once!

[Wickerbasket]

@gailbrand I think I would have cracked under that pressure. Very impressive work!

[TehWinnerz]

@gailbrand ahh, I thought that was you Gail

[gailbrand]

@TehWinnerz hello....erm....who thought it was me...?

[destructorcreator]

@gailbrand You're awesome.

[gailbrand]

erm....thanks, I think! was that sarcastic or friendly? I can't tell!

HNY 2

[kirkfnw]

@gailbrand Friendly. I've been on teletext once, being on Stewart Lee's programs was once my ambition!

[AdamGillett]

@gailbrand Some excellent comedy tromboning there. Yes, the innocent kind of tromboning.

[squintyjohn]

i cann spell and i thought it was very funy

[annoianoid]

Anybody remember 'filthy rich and catflap'? they did exactly the same thing at the end of their last ever episode.

I'm not saying it's a rip off, only maybe this was mr lee's tribute...

[beartyincognito]

Why do you keep deleting your own comments?

[seppo2009]

this is not funny, you can delete my comments, but you can't delete the truth.

[asubjectiveopinion]

It's not 'truth', it's an issue of taste and, as such, a totally subjective value judgment.

Your problem, as with many truly thick twats, is that you confuse your opinions with objective fact and you seem, with a childlike egocentricity, to believe that your opinions are somehow 'special' and more worthy of note than those of anyone else.

I have to ask; have you ever killed and mutilated any small animals?

[beartyincognito]

Podcast? I didn't know I typed podcast. I meant to type "blog post". Anyway, if you look on his site in the latest news section you will see the following bit:

... I was supposed to find out if there was a 2nd series in June but Lucy Lumsden quit her BBC comedy job and everything went wonky. The answer is 'not no', apparently, and I will know in Jan.

[denonblade]

Genius.

[marckthepar]

Excellent news! I'll keep my fingers crossed!

[marckthepar]

This sketch is the greatest sketch ever. The fact that Horne and Corden get another series of bad "fat jokes" whereas SLCV got cancelled sums up what's wrong with the BBC's comedy commissioning process.

[beartyincognito]

It didn't get cancelled. According to SL's latest podcast they will know in January whether there is another series or not. The person who was supposed to make the decision this summer left the BBC before doing so.

[davyjames]

what podcast is this you speak of?

[davyjames]

It hasn't necessarily been cancelled, fingers crossed

[marckthepar]

yea I didn't know he did a podcast - he's kept it quiet if he does!

[beartyincognito]

Sorry, I meant to type "blog post" and it came out as "podcast" by mistake.

[FATSLATER1]

Thank the Lord you posted this my friend!! Satire of the gold standard! With our favorites Kevin Eldon and Paul Putner and Stewart Lee how could we go wrong?! Fucking hilarious!!!!

[MrHennessy30]

@FATSLATER1

That's The Actor Kevin Eldon to you..

[TheGaslightHorror]

The freakout finale is hilarious

[RedlineAngel]

If Scott Walker wrote comedy sketches, they would be not unlike this.

[elwsimon]

Remember watching this when it aired my mate and I were still laughing 5 minutes later, so so good

[JonnySegment]

This almost killed me the first time I saw it. Very funny.

[TheJj2009]

burrr rilliant!!!

[cosmovaldemarr]

What is the point of anything?

[asubjectiveopinion]

It's a parody of the formulaic nature of contemporary TV comedy sketch programmes....obviously!

[asubjectiveopinion]

Which is just a passive-aggressive way of saying "I don't like his comedy."

You do understand that all comedy is subjective, yes?

[seppo2009]

this is a tipical stewert lee fans responsss, 2 b smug and patronizing and ecsplain y the joke is funny. i think i will lis10 to chris moyles, wots the differNce? they're both self-satisfiyd arseholes but moyles is mor likly 2 raze a smile.

i can't spell, that's what it's come to? im sure your precious stew would point that out as well

[kirkfnw]

Well someone who can't be arsed to learn the fucking english language... I believe that says a LOT about you as a person.

You twat.

[asubjectiveopinion]

The reason why people mock your spelling is because it strongly implies that you are stupid, that's why learning to spell is so important.

What I don't understand is why ignorance has come to be a badge worn with such pride or why people are celebrating being thick.

I should point out that if your culture of anti-intellectualism achieves social dominance then you might want to go abroad for surgery.

I don't understand why you can't just use your spell-check?

[raaaak]

But this is more than a clever concept. Paul Putner and Kevin Eldon are just hilarious

[internetmale]

they're clever

[robinoi]

Let's not so much an astute observation as a peculiarly bitter - and illiterate - one.

[degrised]

You can't spell. You are stupid. Well done, you moron. Go listen to Chris Moyles.

[xxxJ0Exxx]

lllll - AVLEY

[anchorlove06]

Kevin Eldon is a great asset to the British comedy scene.

[vashtimay]

One of the most random sketches I've ever seen....

[kingcroak]

Peter linked to your vid? sweet!

[dreadmorayeel]

Absolute comedy genius!

Funnies thing ive seen in yearz

[jonahstevenson]

destined to become one of the all time classic sketches. if there is any justice in the world.

[sorayacita]

...that's what they contrived for.

[jonahstevenson]

ah i don't think so. obviously it's a pastiche of classic 1970s sketches, but it's the second half that really makes it.

[arnoldtoht]

The second half - when all laws break down to the faltering sounds of a dying trombone - was pure gold.

[B0BBYTHER00KIE]

reminds me of python, genius, thanks for uploading

[misterguanoman]

this is perhaps mankind's greatest achievement.

it's over people. we've peaked. it's all downhill from here on in.

[desmoog]

been waiting for this to come on you tube, saw it last week on telly and did laugh out loudly and for a while after, as now..

[ericshantz]

What the fuck just happened!?!

[ViolentRunning]

@ericshantz Now THAT is the most honest comment here, and I believe the exact response this sketch was made to provoke. I love it when people watch intelligent humour and they feel the need to reply like they ate a university.

[ThisVideoGetsMeMoist]

@ViolentRunning I think I just shit my pant.

[nanopunkstudios]

Fantastic send-up of the old style comedy sketches. Reminds me of the great Two Ronnies sketch, Water Water, where Barker plays a landlord who doesn't serve beer and reels off all the different types of the water he sells.

[PCFDD]

Or python's cheese shop sketch.