My scouse friend told me of a time when his mate was at a fete that Tom O'Connor was opening. He called to him and said he had a joke for him.. .Tom O'Connor called him up and said tell the joke. 'What's brown, lives up trees and tells jokes'.. Tom says 'go'ead lah, tell us'... Tom O'Conkor.
So basically Stewart Lee, a stand up comedian (and I use that term advisedly), has stolen this joke about sardines from Tom O'Connor, and tried to pass it off as his own, despite not having even the most rudimentary fish canning machinery at home.
@@raindog7733 well, I'm from Chile and I've watched this a few times trying to explain my friends how hilarious this is with no success. Must be that they're not English or they're not saying it cos these days if you say it you get arrested and thrown in jail
The twist in this somewhat fishy-tale is that the man was actually from Cornwall, therefore making him a Pilchard! "Sardine" and "Pilchard" are common names that refer to various small, oily forage fish in the Herring family so Richard gets his oar in as well!
I could kill some sardines on toast right now, but not in oil, in tomato sauce. Tom o Connors joke might not have been quite as funny if the man said he was in tomato sauce .
Well there would have been a pause, they would have said "they usually come in oil don't they? Oh, but they do come in tomato sauce as well! Aaah, I should never have doubted Tom O Conner!!"
By a coincidence I had sardines on toast tonight, but they were in salt water, not oil. Brine, rather than oil. There was no oil apart from from the fish itself. it wasn't oil that had been added. The bread toasted was white, as it happened, to soak up the oil from the fish, but not any added oil.
You know how as your parents age, they tend to repeat the same things over and over again, like old stories, opinions, or experiences they had? I feel like Stew was subjected to this by his mum with the Tom O Connor bit and he got so frustrated after a while that this washed up guy was held in higher regard than the deconstructivist arthouse comedy of his, that he decided to stretch the joke so that he could tell it in his own style, and therefore, gain the approval of his mum.
Some of the audience look as if they thought they were coming to see a different comedian...as dissapointed as my ex wife was when I took her to see a play in London starring Warren Mitchell...she was expecting Warren Beatty..she thought he'd let himself go....Im off to buy Sardines in mustard sauce...
This is Stewart taking a dig not only at cheap predictable "audience interaction" bits, but also at his *own* crappy stand-up from the late 90s / early 2000s, where he basically just made sarky comments about banal things.
@@mrbenoit5018apparently you can't daub racist slogans in your own excrement on your neighbours windows because a gypsy might be offended ⚡ it's political correctness gone mad stew 😜
