I'm AA Gill and I shot something and smeared it's blood on my face. I'm Jeremy Clarkson and driving slightly too fast over a speed bump. I'm Geert Wildes and I'm not in this bit.
Lee often mocks his own audience. They're often portrayed as pretending to understand a joke that in fact has no meaning. I wonder if this bit is about seeing how far he can push a ridiculous idea on them. As always, the repetition wins the day. I love this bit.
personally, i find that this joke really does have meaning. he criticized two journalists for having little substance beyond hatred to their writing and the then for rod liddl he has so little respect for his writing and its content that he'd rather talk about 'it's just food on a man'.
A brilliant post-modern de- construction of the very unfathomable vapid and worthless idea behind the word joke with nods to Beckett and Camus. GENIUS . PS. Ollie Watkins rules.
For someone that regularly writes for the Guardian, the list of food stuffs on Liddle’s apparel is incredibly British. We see you, Lee. We see you. If he’d had any sense of inclusivity, there’d at least have been some baklava down his front.
Rod Liddle, "you can't make this up" "it's like the lights are on, but nobody is at home" and don't forget "it's just political correctness gone mad" ...
20 minutes I thought I'd never get back the first time I watched it. 20 minutes I've relived possibly 20 times over the past 10 years and it still wrecks me 🤣
The same shtick with every routine, repeat until tedious then until it gets laughs. Boring unless your a teenager that has just been introduced to marijuana.
@@Torahboy1 Absolutely. I saw him do the food-on-a-man thing in one of the work in progress gigs he did before he filmed this series. He was like a conductor orchestrating the audience. To experience the hilarity of the initial concept, then the confusion as it continued, and then the building hysteria as he just went on and on, was amazing. As incredibly funny as it was, though, I think it worked far better as a 10-15min bit in a live performance that went on for a couple of hours, rather than as a 15min bit in a 25min TV programme.
I originally thought this was based on Liddle sounding like ladle (ladel?) but maybe he is just the kind of guy that always looks like he has some food down 'im.
He's intentionally subverting, rather than deconstructing his work with thinly veiled ad hominems about his appearance. He's thinly veiling the critique by increasingly and petty banal personal comment
I know you right wingers have hasd a terrible week and have been humiliated on a massive scale but there's no need to lamely suggest that the hapless Liddel is even remotely close to the mighty Lee. It just makes you look a bit daft. This routine is actually what poor old Liddel is famous for. The poor sod. And don't worry about not having a sense of humour. We won't hold it against you. 😅
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="720">12:00</a> I'd consider "marmalade" rather than "honey" was better suited given the context but then again, wtf would i know about food on a man
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob you are easily upset. you've literally repeated your statements down this thread as much as Lee repeated rod riddle ... you find him very influential, I see.
Richard doesn’t drink any more, unfortunately. But I agree he’d be a much more entertaining person to hang out with. Lee’s cynical arrogance - no matter how ironic - is kind of just exhausting. I know his stuff is clever, but the cleverness itself just isn’t funny enough to justify how long you have to wait for the payoff.
I meant to add Kevin Bishop to my list below of "always funny"- Star Stories was pure genius. And while I think of it, the Anglo-Iranian behind Fonejacker. FANTASTICALLY funny.
@@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob yeah that's right, we're all pretending. You got us. My cheeks where aching from an hour of constant pretending last month at his 'Basic Lee' show, makes you wonder why I bothered...
The audience is the joke.Laughing at the oh so clever Stewart Lee who has built a career of daring his audience to tell him he's not funny. A task they singularly fail to do.Extempore gibberish masquerading as cutting edge comedy.
He's smart but not funny- somehow he has made a career exploiting this paradox. I respect that. Context is everything: it's a comedy (?) club at night: the punters are drinking, many in couples, who will be going onto doing other more enjoyable things later; in short, the response is Pavlovian. Whelan's Law of Comedy: If it isn't funny in your living room at 9 on a Monday morning it was never funny. Laurel & Hardy, Sullivan's Travels, Withnail and I, , Not Going Out, Fawlty Towers, Rodney Dangerfield, Zero Mostel, MASH, Cheers, Family Ties, Episodes, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Katherine Ryan, Jackie Mason, Dave Chappelle and many others will always get laughs at any time of the day; Lee, the fat transvestite whose name escapes me (fluent in 5 languages but funny in none- you know who I mean), Daire O'Brian, Josh Widdicombe and 90% of "comics" now on the scene...no. This comes under the category of "the awful truth". Whelan's Law: pass it on!❤
Nothing is funny in my living room at 9am on a Monday. Lee has at times had me in deeper, more convulsive stitches than probably any other comic, or most of the people and shows you mention. There’s no accounting for taste.
@mikesmith1485 I think I was too vague with the point I was trying to make. To elaborate, I'm sure that there are great things that you are a fan of, that are not my cup of tea at all, too. That's fine. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean it's not great. When I said it's not for everyone, the best things in life usually aren't... I'm not only applying that to the things that I enjoy. There are lots of things that I, subjectively, strongly dislike but that doesn't mean they are not good or they are not deserving of the praise they receive from many other people. What I really mean is, the art and entertainment in the world that is pretty much universally praised is great, sure, hence why it's so well received, but it can only ever be a certain level of great because in order to appeal to such a wide demographic compromises are made. It's not a bad thing, just the way of the world. Alternatively, things that achieve even higher levels of greatness tend to by there very nature appeal to only segments of society. There are myriad examples of great things that hold no appeal to me personally whatsoever, and that's fine! I'm happy for the people that can appreciate them. Sorry for the essay 😅
@@speakatron5634 Bitter socialist mid-wit tries out a school bully routine on an absent Rod Liddle. No, not the best comedy in the world, really. Lee's one innovation is to be deliberately unfunny longer than all other comedians.
Its all achingly smug and self satisfied. The small tables, the lamps, the shrieking, self conscious laughter during the poppadom bit, the kind of person who does the same thing regularly during ‘Waiting for Godot’ and Shakespeare plays. These people are awful!
Its like someone set laughing gas off in the crowd ? Lee is alright but if this is rhe height of comedy in the UK its pretty poor . Rod Liddle is a mook though .
@@chriselliott726 yes of course. If you think stewart Lee is awful then by default you must like a racist from the 70s. Before my time unfortunately Chris.
@@richardnelson6172 No dear, I'm not saying you are a racist. Manning was all about simple structured jokes ..build up, punchline. Basic stuff, nothing too complicated. Something for the simple mind ..... with a smattering of racism, homophobia, misogyny etc thrown in for good measure. I'm not sure Manning was a cruel person, just too thick to understand why he was quite so repugnant. Lee is complex. Perfectly understandable that some people don't get it.
