Stewart Lee - All Things Bright & Beautiful

[heatbucspies55]

That was hilarious.

[rmcc86]

KD Lang's let himself go.

[SingYAYfourEd]

what gay hair

funny man though

[stupidjunk978]

Stewart Lee gets very tiresome, he comes up with one funny riff and then completely overplays it by going on for an extra 10 minutes on the same theme. About half of this clip was completely unnecessary and just ruined the original joke

[Tedaus5]

@stupidjunk978 That's the point. Notice how he made the joke (set A) then went on to explain the joke about specifics (set B) and then explained a specific joke about set B (set C). So next time you see a Stewart Lee joke, just bring along one of those diagrams and say "it's this, can we go home now?"

[bingdiddley]

@stupidjunk978 I would go so far as to say he needlessly overcomplicates a very simple idea.

[TheSpeshulShark]

@stupidjunk978 Yeah, all the later jokes were just subjokes of the first joke.

[guitarreilly]

@stupidjunk978 hes actually alot better now he does drag stuff out but it really works especially in stewart lees comedy veichle series 2

[hockinm1]

I'd like to know if Venn diagrams were around in comedy before this sketch, or was he the pioneer. There are whole comedy books about them now.

Small point: wings is not a sole sub-set of birds, there are mammals, insects and even fish with wings. I'm sure Stewart has since realised and regretted this deeply ever since then.

[hockinm1]

@hockinm1 and panty-liners

[shakensparco]

@hockinm1 But it doesn't matter if wings apply to other groups because if God made birds, then he must have made at least some wings as well. Other creatures have wings but so do birds, so we can safely assume that if God made the bird's wings, he made other wings as well.

[domnal]

Should that not be Shittiest . You know adjective- shitty , comparative - shittier

superlative -shittiest . Shit is a noun you can't have shitest !! Oxford Graduate in English - well really !!

[CROMERCRABO1]

DRAGONS

[NisforNeville]

the little hair flip at 2:17 is adorable!

[david552]

Stewart Lee is brilliant, but needs a microphone, then he wouldn't need to SHOUT!

[mrmcbutterpants1]

Set C: Non-existent birds.

[fritspas]

@mrmcbutterpants1

Set D: God

[Cloudlesssoul]

Listening to Lee ripping the shit out of that dreadful crap they forced us to sing at school is very cathartic. :)

[MARKETMAN6789]

stewert lee,im sorry i dont find you funny,but someones got to tell you,its no good the few people who come to see you telling you,you wont believe them ,especially if most of them are your family and your friends,i suggest you wear a funny hat and a funny red nose on a spring,and forget writeing on the paper till you can find something funny to write,ps dont take this personell

[zeushighscore]

@MARKETMAN6789 We all get it, you don't like Stewart Lee... Perhaps it's time to move on with your life now. I'm sure that you must have better things to do than to endlessly slag off something you don't like.

[Wickerbasket]

@zeushighscore You may be sure, but I am not.

[MARKETMAN6789]

@zeushighscore ,at least i dont swear at him like the people who dont like jedward do,im a nice heckler,and i wash my hands every time i go to the toilet.and pull the toilet seat down ,when its got one

[EbsNhexz]

@MARKETMAN6789 I find your implication that some toilets do not have seats to be racist against northern comedy clubs. And don't wash your hands before you pull the seat down..you'll get shit on your hands.

[meucunt1]

@MARKETMAN6789 Shouldn't really be critiquing this guys writing with grammar and spelling like that dude.

[MARKETMAN6789]

i think he writes on a piece of paper like that for the audience ,because the audience he gets are them who cant converse properly,you know the type ,them that say a is for apple ,b is for boy,c is for cat etc

[CHANNELOMD]

I see god isnt taking the rap for cancer or child abuse , not his department

[fiftyquidbloke]

Glad to see this again. However, his diagram is mathematically incorrect, as "all things" should be represented by the universal set.

[sirdannyg]

He has alot of publicity despite the fact that he deliberately doesn't seek it. That's one of the reasons he is the best at what he does. Ross Noble??! Large chunks of his routines are totally unfunny. He's like the slightly amusing mate you find down the pub, not a stand up genius.

[MARKETMAN6789]

a beautifull hymnn my fav ,i dont think youll ever be my fav comedien

[Bazlovesmusic]

@MARKETMAN6789 Just because you like the hymn why does that mean you can't find this joke funny as well? I will never understand people liek you who get annoyed and don't like it when comedians make jokes about something they like. Even when comedians make jokes about things I ilke I invariably still find it funny. Because believe it or not it is possible to like both, it's only a JOKE after all.

[MARKETMAN6789]

@Bazlovesmusic ,i didnt swear or abuse the man ,i just thought he wasnt funny at all,if you like it im pleased ,and im not annoyed its you is annoyed,,i just think hes just a middle of the road very poor comedian ,who doesnt want to give his day job up

[MARKETMAN6789]

@Bazlovesmusic ps ive only judged him on this video,if hes a begginer good luck to him ,ill tell you one thing he wont ever appear at the palladium

[DJJamesG]

@MARKETMAN6789 - He is the 12th best stand up of all time: 1 BILLY CONNOLLY 2 RICHARD PRYOR 3 RICKY GERVAIS 4 BILL HICKS 5 EDDIE IZZARD 6 PETER KAY 7 BILL BAILEY 8 CHRIS ROCK 9 MICHAEL MCINTYRE 10 VICTORIA WOOD 11 ROSS NOBLE 12 STEWART LEE 13 JIMMY CARR 14 DYLAN MORAN 15 WOODY ALLEN He doesn't want to give up his day job? Haha. Aren't you stupid.

[KevinMcAlligator]

@DJJamesG According to whoever it is that measures these things, under the false assumption that comedy is some kind of competition like darts, snooker or snap, in which there is a finite winner, rather than a form entertainment designed to provoke laughter, and in some cases thought, the succes or failure of which is, by its very nature, subjective.

[DJJamesG]

@KevinMcAlligator I agree. However, if someone is voted 12th best in the world at anything by the public, they must be good at it.

[MARKETMAN6789]

@Bazlovesmusic , where did you get that list from ,the beano,if you think hes funny thats ok with me,but you want to get out more ,a list with no ken dodd in ,,and your trying to compare him with woody allen,are you aving a laff,does he do impersonations,because if he does ask him to do the invisable man,isuppose i will hear from you again ,ive got a better list than that ,when i go for my mams shopping at asda

[araregoodguy]

leftie nobhead hates god big surprise!

[ourben]

@araregoodguy Psychopath.

[Bazlovesmusic]

@araregoodguy Why does he hate God? He hates the hymn, God didn't write the hymn. Besides just because you make a joke out of something it doesn't mean you hate it. If a comedian makes a joke about something I believe/like it doesn't bother me; I usually find it funny.

[natmanprime]

But the hymn didn't say God made all things

Just all things great wonderful bright beautiful wise and small

So further examples were required.

God making 'them all' only refers to those things mentioned in the first 3 lines of the hymn.

Hence "THEM all" not "ALL THINGS".

Just pointing that out because I have no life. Thank you

[1978deus]

@natmanprime It's all bollocks anyway. How do you even define what is and isn't bright, beautiful, great, small, wise and wonderful? Especially since these all differ according to each individual's personal preference. A perfectly formed dog turd, for example, could be described with all those adjectives. Also, is it right for god to claim ownership of the by-products of that which he created? i.e. Did god create the turd as well or just the dog itself?

[natmanprime]

@1978deus Robert Anton Wilson asks "who is the master that makes the grass green?"

;)

[1978deus]

@natmanprime No one does. It's just green.

[natmanprime]

@1978deus Type the question and check out RAWilson on YT...

[Iainnn]

So glad this was uploaded, I've been a fan ever since this was first broadcast. Stand up was the only thing Channel 5 was good for back then (I'm pretty sure it was Channel 5 anyway...)

[marckthepar]

@lilmct Ahhh! But I do realise that the lyrics to the Hymn refer to *their* tiny wings and as such means the tiny wings owned by the aforementioned birds. However, you'll notice that I wasn't talking about the lyrics to the Hymn; I was talking about Poofart Wee's interpretation of said Hymn and in particular to his incorrect labelling of Set C as "Wings" and not , as you rightly point out, the correct title in the context of the Hymn which would be "the tiny wings of birds".

[marckthepar]

Set C is not a subset of Set B because wings are not exclusive to birds - tiny wings even less so.

Richard Herring would never make such a fundamental error, and anyone who says he definitely would is lying.

[lilmct]

@marckthepar ah, but you have also made a fundamental error, for the line says "he made THEIR (the birds) tiny wings" and therefore THEIR (the birds) tiny wings are mutually exclusive to birds

you have been out-pedanted good sir, if pedanted is even a word. which it isn't. so...take that

[ficklefiend]

So many funerals have this song. I hate it.

[JapeUK]

I'm a would-be comic and all my stuff is basically stream of conciousness. I'd love to have Lee's disection skills. He can find a thousand jokes in a single thing. Genius.

[maxwellmaxwell]

he's actually wrong. the lord god did not make all creatures, just the great, small, bright, beautiful, wise and wonderful ones. pretty subjective stuff; specific examples are warranted.

[Riddemz]

"all creatures great and small"

great in this case might not mean grandiose, but great in size

and so great(big) and small would mean that god created the tiniest creature to the largest of creatures which would mean that he is in fact correct

[stu99sjw]

Given that the Lord God made all things and that by subsequent definition and inferred from the hymn they could be classified as "wonderful" surely your subsets "ugly" and "thick as two short planks" are a subset of wonderful and therefore fall into Set A: All things.

Specific examples are therefore not warranted.

[natmanprime]

@maxwellmaxwell so the devil made all that ugly shit daaaamn

( : o

[JesterPkmn]

he is my favorite comedian, along with Ross Noble.

[MrErisian]

@JesterPkmn He is also my favourite comedian, along with Jim Davidson and Joe Pasquale.

[EnglishSmoker2]

@MrErisian lmao

[bareakon]

@MrErisian i do hope you're referring to one of stu's hilarious routines, rather than stating a fact about yourself

[carlosizz89]

Stewart Lee is so great, I just discovered him 10 mins. ago and he's a comedic genius. He really needs to get more publicity

[helmetboy123456]

@carlosizz89 you smell

[wobjob]

@carlosizz89

Welcome to the club!

If you like Stu's neo-brechtian style, you may also like Zach Galifianakis.

Yes, yes, I know he starred in the awful "The Hangover", but trust me, his stand-up is clever, scary, vicious and strangely self-deprecating.

[hereticmagpie]

@carlosizz89 Make sure you get his new DVD out in a few months, "If you prefer a milder comedian pelase ask for one". Saw it in Feb and it was his best show yet :)

[AernoutMJC]

Ah, young simba doesn't understand... Well, maybe later, when you grow up, are able to leave your petty beliefs for what they are and willing to think for yourself... Maybe then you will be able to understand the joke.

[geffel]

wow, you cretin.

[connarish]

been looking for this for ages since it got removed, bloody hilarious

[CodeKitten]

A set is a collection

[Jhontibird]

Are Sets things?

[commodoreherring]

you can have a set whose members are other sets: set A, god wins.