Stewart Lee playing the room as it's dealt 

It's a shame Morrissey has been reduced to this, he was a great artist. And he's really let himself go

Saw him do this routine in Liverpool. He is so convincing. When you're right there in the room you almost start to believe it. Brilliant.

“I walk on to the stage…through a forest of ghosts”. Something about that line is just so perfect, so self-pitying, just enough to keep it going. Beautiful.

Watch this bit, and then remember that Joe Rogan calls himself a comic.

I don't think I've ever referred to a stand up routine as a masterpiece or beautiful, but this is genuinely both of those things.

"You as good as murdered Robin Williams." OMFG. Stewart Lee never disappoints.

The ambition of writing this, knowing that has ten straight minutes of rambling about suicide, and he has to work the audience up to being in on the joke, and keeping them there. For ten goddamn minutes with gutpunches instead of punchlines.

I love that stewart can craft a joke so precisely that he can actually manipulate the number of people in the audience who will laugh at it in order to set up an entire routine.

He just gave it to them straight; like a pear cider, that's made from 100% pears.

How he manages to not laugh during some of those quiet bits I'll never know. Genius!

He comes up with a half-decent joke but deliberately tells it in a way that won't get laughs, then makes you laugh at something totally inappropriate and blames you for the routine failing to go well.

This is fucking art. So much control, so much understanding of the crowd. Surreal

Just after halfway through this when he's talking about ghosts and you see him crack a slight smile but keep it together, I love seeing people enjoying their own work.

I saw him do this n Edinburgh 2yrs ago, it was something special to experience in person. Fukn genius Stewart.

Stewart lee is a master at deconstructing his routine. It's pure brilliance

Of all the bits I've seen Stewart Lee do live, this is the one that made the biggest impression. So good.

I am a grief counselor and that shit was therapy.

There’s something almost Basil Fawlty when he shouts “You should’ve been concentrating like that from the moment you walked in!”

A magnificent Rockstar of comedy. Dragging the joke around the room and shaking it in peoples faces.

"they're just in the clothes that they wore when I knew them"