My friend went to this gig. She had a huge crush on Stewart Lee. I remember it because afterwards she sent me this excited message: "... 11.40pm Just seen Stewart Lee coming out the stage door smoking a cigarette and getting into a cab. He looks thin and happy and thin..." I've probably still got the fax somewhere lying about....
I've lived overseas for many years and only discovered Stewart Lee in the past couple of months. This performance is pretty weak, but he develops into a phenomenal comedian. I'm a big fan.
In his 2019 show and recent shows hes been repeating the political corectness health and saftey bit and the jokes about boris johnson as if they were new material still worka 10 years on 🙂
Wow I'm posting this 2 days after seeing his latest standup show Basic Lee.. incredible how weak his material was 30 years ago. Had I watched that at the time I would have thought 'just another shit comedian' but now this guy is my favourite stand-up. For reference, around that time I would have been watching Alexei Sayle, Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Harry Enfield, French and Saunders et al (people of my age will remember Raw Sex who are the duo that introduce Lee here) .
The German 6th Army, advancing remorselessly towards the Caucasus in the early summer of 1942 in the face of desperate but ineffective opposition by the Red Army Of The Lower Don, has let itself go
Zing! Stewart Lee here, spitting out the fast jokes and the one liners, catch 'em before they're gone, that he's renowned for. That was 1991. Since then he let himself go.
The A. Twat phone book joke could work better if the person ringing up hadn't looked in the phone book. So when Stewart says "the jokes on you", the person says "what phone book?" Just a tip there, Stewart Lee of 23 years ago.
It's funny how -- although Stu's early routine of written jokes intentionally for laughs from the audience has changed over the years into his modern day genius improv (at the audience's expense) -- Stu's deep and abiding, innate snearing disdain for the stupidities of humanity have survived. Kinda shows that a comedian's basal shtick always remains the same.
@@edsmith2535 I wasn't meaning THIS CLIP was improv, but much of his more modern stuff is improv based around planned themes. He has said as much himself in interviews.
Depends - his filmed Content Provider set certainly isn't improvised (apart from certain moments during Southend's audience interactions). Maybe his more recent show is. l've seen him at Edinburgh many times and he has on occassion staged second low key show where he tries out material which I would say is semi-improvised, he'll bring a prop, item or idea on stage with a idea and kind of work-shop it.
a man who looks like this guy, but older, fatter and more depressed was in the carpark of World of Leather recently, phoning all the Russells to see what material would work these days? , now, I don't usually time things like this, but i'd say he was on the phone for a good four or five minutes?
It's a good thing he was a half decent scratch artist isn't it? Who wouldn't want to be pined over for the best part of a century by Kate Winslet? Almost makes it worth drowning in the icy waters of the Atlantic after the most famous ocean liner tragedy of all time.
This is fascinating. Despite the abundance of punchlines it's like they're missing the "Stewart Lee punchlines". That phone-book joke without its second part and the sick joke without the slow, exaggerated delivery (or more importantly the cat feet towel and Jesus)... they just don't work. Obviously they're serving entirely different purposes here.
lol first time i ever got drunk was on cheap red wine when i was 13. me and my mate sat in a little brick room that crates were stored in in a little warehouse park.
But the Sex Pistols did it really respectfully. And by theway Johnny Rotten you've got a disabled but lovely cousin, same name as you, living in rubbish accommodation in Finsbury Park.Why don;t you help him out or are you too establishment yourself now.
I do not get the people saying this isn’t good, or isn’t as good as his new stuff. I think it’s incredible- intelligent, bizarre, creative, just very very deadpan
I enjoy seeing how he’s still funny here but in a less polished way than he is now (I mean like obvs he would be but I enjoy seeing that he kept working on it)
Not entirely sure why he put out a barely half smoked cigarette before immediately lighting another one. Unless he wanted to give the illusion of chain smoking... 🤔 Not the kind of thing a young comedian could afford to accomplish these days....! 🤣
