Stewart V Armando: Religion - BBC Comedy Extra

[dantrizz]

I'm not sure if I understand the content I'm watching here. xXx

[AnthemsToTheWelkin]

"They're constructing an enormous red button at the bottom of the sea"

=D

[uhm18]

These two beat both Frost and Nixon to a pulp.

[ummmerrrrummm]

Stewart Lee's Brilliant. How long can you talk nonsense for? No wait, wait ... I haven't finished.... uhhh actually I have finished.

[fleamarket3000]

how about hatred and a dash of lies?

[RealityCheck6T9]

I like the comparison of this to the Frost/Nixon interview

[Barracuda007]

i'm hungry

[Tedaus5]

Why is this so quiet?



[alecbg919]

There is no sound historical evidence for Pythagoras. Though the Pythagoreans definitely existed with their crazy rules and numerology.

[smileyraw]

? what makes you say that?

[alecbg919]

@smileyraw History of maths professor at Cambridge told us in one of our lectures. Apparently the documents detailing Pythagoras were written by a writer of historical fiction.

On a slightly related note, there is evidence of Pythagoras' theorem in Babylonian texts that existed much before Pythagoras.

[smileyraw]

@alecbg919 That is really interesting, I'll look into that :D

[jimbob1969]

[Pythagoras] founded a religion on which the the main tenets were the transmigration of souls and the sinfulness of eating beans. His religion was embodied in a religious order, which, here and there, acquired rule of the state

[PeteLewis1917]

You can't beat Stewart Lee and Armando. Two of the most important people from the early 90s as far as British comedy goes. I urge everyone to listen to the episodes of Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive that are up on Stew's website (incidentally both with Mark 'give it to me straight like a pear cider that's made from 100% pear) Watson

[swilsh55]

"all i know is they are constructing an enormous red button at the bottom of the sea, and that's where it is all going to be placed"

genius

[RyanTL85]

Where does the content go? Youtube apparently.

[RyanTL85]

There may or may not be somewhere else..? I have found enlightenment!

[sollibop]

Dawkins has had a number of supernatural experiences involving ghosts and enchanted animals!!! Brilliant!

[iSOBigD]

Wow, his sarcasm is on a whole other level. :o

[qwertyuiopdan1]

if the content of the red button is on youtube where does the red button go

[ohdoshutit]

'i think there might be somewhere else. definately' lol

[FilimboUK]

it's amazing the amount of effort they've put into what is simply something on the red button

[dannymcc1]

haha the ending is amazing

[sausagedogmcgee]

"I think there's definitely somewhere else" cracked me up.

[Pastorius124]

4:30 is absolutely hilarious

"...an ether-"

"I think there might be a-"

"I haven't finished explaining what it is that I think you might think there might be something of. Another plane, anoth-actually I have finished."

Ianucci is amazing.

[DukeToast]

Woo Southend

[Epistemofo]

"Actually I have finished". Iannucci and Lee, what a treat.

[peterely88]

Ronnie Corbett stuff quite obviously recycled from "Lee and Herring", we're not fools Stew, ur pseudo-ironic musings are of no value

[jarzhinio]

@peterely88 but some of us are fools though. Fools have a right to content too don't they?

[peterely88]

Ronnie Corbett stuff quite obviously recycled from "Lee and Herring", we're not fools Stew, ur pseudo-ironic musings are of no value

[belisariusorb]

His expression of bleak despair at the end cracked me up

[Tiptup77]

Content must never become fact.

[Elcore]

Lee's a good laugh; Iannucci's a writing genius.

[retread01]

All these interviews are brilliant. I watched the whole series on iplayer and they didn't make any mention of it. Only found these yesterday by accident.

[adamthebaddun]

fucking genius

[inamorty]

That looks like it was such a fun conversation. Absolute nonsense!

[domrowland]

Lighten up folks. Stewart Lee not only satarises things in his show, he satarises himself and the medium in which he preforms. Satire by its nature takes an observation and takes it to a level of absurdity. What Lee is doing here is taking comedy to the next level which no other performer has done.

[14u42]

Just shut up you're embarassing yourself

[domrowland]

Not really. I simply commented on a video I like whilst watching it. Where as you not only wasted your time commenting on a video you didn't like. But then returned to argue with people who did. What an embarrassing waste of a life.

[fewleh]

He's obviously a dick. Your comments were bang on the money...He's probably too thick to actually understand the type of comedy, poor lad

[ghosterdude]

@domrowland i think in the last half of this vid he gets dead serious. he goes beyond comedy. he uses the metaphor of the red button and content to talk about some serious that concerns him and he doesn't make fun of them.

[DaddyCalls]

@domrowland i urge anyone who hasn't seen stand up comedian 2005 from glasgow to stop wasting their lives

[GinoZump]

I think Zach Galifianakis works in a similar way.

[9ballyoda]

@domrowland It's remarkable that you can spell satire and yet not satirise...

[kuntyfucstik]

@domrowland

get a room.

and read Aristophanes again.

[antichris78]

my life needs more content

[Isanion]

i think they rather lost it with the red button talk. It might have worked if it weren't for the fact that the whole interactive TV system is mind numbingly simple, and no one has the kind of confusion that they're feigning here.

[MastermindRX78NT1]

Also, the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number originated with Pythagoras.

I didn't finish watching.

[pirbird14]

Pythagorus forbade the eating of beans by his followers because he thought they resembled testicles. I don't know how many Pythagoreans there may be in this day and age.

[moralreef]

@pirbird14 he once drowned one of his students because he found a proof that some numbers cannot have an end. pythagorus was basically a shit

[acme181169]

@moralreef did he shout Eureka?

[moralreef]

@acme181169 wasn't that archimedes?

[acme181169]

@moralreef Oh yeah

[tommyLefroy]

@pirbird14 actually it was broad beans or fava beans that were prohibited by Pythagoras not your regular baked beans to which Stew refers

[amberience]

@zulmia 1 year ago I read this comment. 1 year ago I rated your mum.