Stewart Lee - "Stereotypes" Discussion on BBC's "This Week"

17th November 2005, the comedian Stewart Lee takes part on a debate on the role of stereotypes in comedy on the BBC show, "This Week".

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Comedy

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• BBC
• Stereotypes
• Discussion
• This
• Week
• Stewart
• Lee

[3gmatt1]

How can Diane Abbott be against stereotypes when she keeps doing that shit impression of an upper class white woman.

[MrSkinnycrab]

I think Stewart Lee supports political correctness because it helped to get rid of nasty racism and sexism in general opinion.

I think whether something is genuinely politically incorrect has something to do with how much discrimination has been seen in the past or present...

[blackorblue92]

Stewart Lee's laugh is fantastic.

[MrFrostedtips]

Borat was a brilliant comedy character that exposed OTHER people's prejudices and made the assumption that all great comedians do, like Lee, that their audience is smart enough to realize that, sadly it's rarely the case. Little Britain was original in its first series, maybe the second at a push but after that it was extremely lazy and repetitive. Can't recall much stereotyping though merely portraying individuals within British society that do exist but we'd rather not talk about them.

[johnny207]

Ratko Mladic has let himself go.

[astroboirap]

@23Stork when you say slaves do you mean dogs? and when you say shoot do you mean penetration/beastiality?

[23Stork]

@astroboirap

I don't want to divide and rule, I already have far too many slaves, I've started to just shoot them for fun now.

[astroboirap]

@23Stork u must be white, quite trying to divide us... and rule over us

[patterjak]

@muiroford1 Agree, she just comes across as such a twat

[muiroford1]

Dianne Abbot is a steriotypical lesbo lefty.