Probably my favourite Stewart Lee moment, and possibly my favourite piece of stand-up ever. From the DVD Stewart Lee - Stand-Up Comedian. If you like this clip, I highly recommend a purchase: www.amazon.co.u... stewartlee.co.uk/
@@adzy166 9/11 or 11/9 - doesnt really matter though does it? as both retard nations use the gregorian calendar because you're both vassal states owned by the vatican - - - london city = washington dc....so dont pretend to be better when you're all just gormless slaves
"What she would've wanted would've been to have not been killed." Possibly the most complex yet accurately grammatical killer line that I have ever heard.
Agreed, this is the best stand-up bit I've ever seen. Though you can see him performing this same bit when he was younger and not really having it down. It lacked all the long pauses and character-building he does here. This time it's methodical and intentionally drawn-out to make you forget where the joke started. Took him a few years to master it to get it just right. It still makes me laugh even though I know it almost verbatim.
It's at it's best when he simulates Richard Little-John in a Graveyard chiselling out Working girl replacing it with Prostitute. It was so drawn out, but it really added to the sketches charm. Been watching him since Fists of Fun, don't think there's anything he's been in that I haven't liked. After Rik Mayall, he's one of the only few living icons in British Comedy left to me.
On the day of Diana's funeral, a guy had wrote to the local paper where I live, that he had gone for his newspaper that morning, and was disgusted to see some local businesses open. I laughed my socks off. Where did he get the paper from???. Oh the irony.😅
'Grief thief' is a term that has come to perfectly encapsulate the shallow, self absorbed, reactionary behaviors of those that attach themselves to somebody else s loss and pain and ultimately,hysterically and rather crassly, make it about them. Princess Diana's death is a great example. At the expense of their own feelings, those nearest to her were expected to , very publicly, express their grief so as the general public could be appeased. Not dragging her two (now motherless) children through the streets behind her coffin, heads bowed ,would have been detrimental to the general public's need to see she was being respected appropriately ,allowing those ( who had never met her and really knew nothing about her) to express their feelings of 'loss' and 'grief'. A 'scene' that spoke volumes to me was one where her 2 (very young) sons, dignified and composed, braced themselves as the hearse stopped at the gates of her final resting place - whilst several members of the public threw themselves to the floor, weeping and wailing uncontrollably, to the point of hysterics. Very touching. I can imagine those two children, who had lost their mother so suddenly, in such a tragic manner, must have been so comforted by that scene. I hope that a similar scene is played out at the funeral of one of their loved ones, so that they can 'appreciate' the loss a complete stranger feels on their behalf, putting their own feelings into some perspective.
The irony is that Diana was the biggest 'grief thief' going, when during her divorce she adopted all manner of good causes to burnish her image, only to drop them when she received her fat multi-million pound settlement. That's why people laugh at this 'Queen of Hearts' , 'England's Rose' nonsense, because they know that she was a manipulative phony. So don't complain if other idiots emulated her at her funeral.
I worked in a hotel when she died. In the morning, a stack of about 50 newspapers was dropped off for guests to take from the front counter. At about 6 am, some man came from outside (not a guest) and took the stack. He was convinced someday, he'd get rich selling the Toronto Star newspaper edition that featured the death of Diana. That man, has really let himself go.
Stewart Lee is a comedic legend who is undervalued and underrated in this country (England) I mean no disrespect but I would say he is our version of Bill Hicks, a very intelligent comedian who isn't afraid to use controversial issues to mock the insanity that is modern society.
except hicks tackled issues like tobacco companies and big business etc and lee tackles high end subjects like zippy from rainbow and ooh betty jokes about graham norton...
Perfect stand up routine for multiple reasons. Genious material and superb delivery. Superbly done in such a small venue with punters feet away watching your every move. Cheers Stewart.
His latest TV outing was the best comedy I have seen on the BBC for a long time. Not all comedy has to be joke after joke, hit and miss. This is brilliant
he's on such an intellectual yet simple level. so he's not bouncing round the stage or doing funny voices. the man is funny on soooo many levels. recently properly exposed to his stand up , Lee herring was always my favourite out of that double act but also the he definitely defined the grumpy man act after ben elton, before jack dee before anyone else started copying the format in British stand up humour and he's an outstanding story teller to boot. cos let's be honest....Slate him as you like bet you watched till the end of the clip😂
what's clever about this sketch is that it manages to be funny, scathing of the over the top reaction of people who did not know Lady Di, and yet never disrespectful of her.
OMG that is so good, the first part of setting up the joke is even an ironic jab at the media perception was out of proportion with that of the common man. And all of that gets you asking question then suddenly pops back to E.T. that you had forgotten about by that point. Such good comic timing, amazing
carried away on a river of infants tears! Stewart Lee is one of the only comedians who actually still does meaningful stand up, its funny because its true and he knows how to poke fun at modern society, looking forward to seeing him in Camden later this year!
It was awful when she died, the death of the personification of meaningless vacuity and distraction from ourselves hit us hard. How could we go on? We all rushed down to Kensington Palace just to try and fill our empty hearts with the lingering spirit of her superficial media image. Still her airheaded legacy lives on in all its insubstantial vacuousness in 2016. Queen of talentless media driven celebrity, Gawd bless 'er!!
The point of the length of the joke is to heighten the impact of the punchline because the original set-up is forgoten. Stewart Lee is one of the great stand-up's comics ... uniquely delivered, highly intelligent humour. Not everyone will like the style, but for me he is up there with Hicks.
i have just discovered stewart lee on bbc2 and he is brilliant. at last an intelligent comedian. what i like even more is i have looked him up on you tube and there are poeple out there who do not get his style of comedy and it pisses them off so much that they leave nasty comments. you either get his comedy or you dont. i along with many others do get it. IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THE HUMOUR ALL YOU DO IS CLICK YOUR MOUSE AND ITS GONE. ITS SO EASY.
+TaskforceGandalf if you watch the whole show there is quiet a bit of preamble about the American verses English dating method leading up to this bit. The 'reclaiming' of the calendar, and so this 9th of November thread ran through to this segment. As is stewart Lee's way, he continued to reiterate the 'correct' English method of dating MANY times over. Hence the lack of reaction to it at this point. I hope that helps :-). It's worth watching the whole show- it's very good.
I remember the morning well my dad (who was addicted to sky news and slept on the couch in order to maximise his viewing and who hated the royal family... but who was clearly a tiny bit sad!) came into mine and my sisters bedroom, stood at the window and looked out solemnly and said: Diana's dead,... Dodi's Dead..............................................................DoDos
For me his greatest 14 minutes was the top gear rant, I don't even think it was comedy, more a statement of disgust, probably the most powerful 14 mins I've ever watched, Stewart Lee has a brilliant mind.
I visited the Hollywood star of Michael Jackson right after he died, there was a half eaten sandwich, a gallon of milk and a coupon for Taco Bell among other things placed in tribute on top of his star.
I remember seeing cellophane. I also saw more cellophane. Oh, and there were flowers. Richer florists and possibly empty Dutch flower warehouses. Very funny sketch...
". . . and as I stood there for the 40 or 50 minutes staring at the ET/ALF enigma. . . . . I could hear the mellifluous tones of what could have only been a heavenly host of . . . . . two or three cherubim . . . . .which later I recognised as the song . . . . 'Barbie Girl' by Aqua - an actual number one hit of that particular week.
