Stewart Lee - The Rap Singers

Stewart Lee describes Rappers

• Category

  Comedy

[Darren Gregory]

I've watched this about 10 times and it actually gets funnier each time.

[ToolManDan82]

It's not random, it's specifically written so that the humour builds out of the recognition of a gradually more absurd parody of the sort of conversation one can have with somebody who is not part of a subculture and doesn't understand it, which ends on the punchline, underlining the point :)

[Cass Collins]

I think you do have to be English to get this Normster. It's the kind of conversation I would have had with my granddad if I'd asked him what a rapper is. He'd have a vague idea, but would get it all muddled up with skateboarders etc like Stewart Lee does here. I think he's a kind of acquired taste, some of his stuff works really well (Princess Diana one is worth checking out), but some of it doesn't translate well to other nationalities.

[matatmat]

ah right cheers for the response

[OMGitsLadyTangerine]

second time watching. i love this

[ouncy]

Cultural references. You don't know the culture.

[normster1000]

Please, for god sake, in all of the Common Wealth,can someone tell me that this English audience is getting paid to laugh! This guy is complete shit ! Help me understand,please, i beg of you. What the hell are they laughing at ????? Maybe i am the dumb,uncultured American in this case. Is it a predisposition under the right cultural conditions that makes this guy funny in England ? Genetics maybe? Maybe a tendency to laugh at all that is English? Wtf man???? Please help?

[Dripfed]

Essentially. If you ever see a comedian ranting at high speed about things from back in the past that they remember...Whilst an audience of simpletons fall about laughing...This is the exact opposite. A slow rambling mockery of a comic convention.

[ToolManDan82]

Such genius delivery, the way he builds humour is fantastic

[AlmostYearly]

Gervais? Oh dear.

Maybe this could be an in for you: v=UP39lZ1nxw4

[brrrrrrraseed]

paradigm shift, maaaan.