Stewart Lee Meets Ted Chippington

Taken from "The Culture Show" (3rd Feb 2007).

Category:

Comedy

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• Stewart
• Lee
• Ted
• Chippington
• Richard
• Herring
• Robin
• Ince
• Phill
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[vecuccio]

A bad comedian is a bad comedian regardless of whether flavour of the month Stewart Lee says otherwise. In fact it's rather cruel of this pseudo-intellectual to patronize this man's abject failure as being something 'special' that only 'special people' can understand and appreciate.

[imjackcooper]

@vecuccio I think you're way off the mark there, on so many levels.

[ejames3000]

James Brown isn't fit to tell Ted the way to the railway station

[BdR76]

@TenWhoWereTaken totally agree

[MyBallsAreSquared]

7:10 ..your last chance now to join in.

Hahhaha

[gmcaveety93]

@BelatedCommiseration Well said. Ted's jokes are humourless, it's an interesting social experiment don't get me wrong - but he's by not any means a real comedian. I respect the guy going up on stage and talking shite, he's either very brave or a little retarded

[gmcaveety93]

Ted is a bizarre chap, an oddity, who wants to annoy people. That alone is why he's funny

[Bigchimpin87]

Morrisseys let himself go

[TenWhoWereTaken]

@gorgobar No, I just re-watched TMWRNJ because someone had uploaded the episodes onto YouTube. There's nothing wrong with criticising someone on the basis of an earlier period of work.

Anyway, my main point was that Herring's recent stand up gigs are similar to Stewart's in both style and content, but he has more of a relaxed approach to life and for that reason I prefer him.

[gorgobar]

@TenWhoWereTaken You are stuck in the nineties if you are still rating Stewart Lee on the basis of his collaboration with Herring.

[BottomBoosh]

@comanchio1976 Me too, Im a fan of Kaufman, but he's to be a fan of which is strange

[TenWhoWereTaken]

I like Stewart Lee's comedy, but the man's head is so far up his arse it's unbelievable.

Even fans have to admit that he plays up to some highbrow, intellectualised concept of the comedian, but then you watch something like TMWRNJ and it's just silly (albeit very funny); the kind of thing that he usually dismisses as 'warm diarrhoea'.

Herring is definitely my favourite person in the duo. His style of stand up is very similar to Stew's, he likes to repeat inane jokes too, but more laid back.