Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle

two things about this week's episode

1. stewart lee began ranting about jack dee and his copying of curb your enthusiasm/moody humour - me and my mates pointed out from episode one lee is clearly doing a jack dee impression in this show, he's dressed in a dee-like way, moans about stuff, even the beginning sequence reminds me of jack dee's happy hour. so as much as i love stewart lee, fucking hell pot kettle black hypocrite.

2. he needs to either stop getting drunk during the show or stop being self-pityingly depressed in a mid-life crisis, watching the old, past-it, fat, grey presenter of a comedy show vocally wishing for death isn't that funny

i miss fresh-faced 90s lee

  melotronic said:

me and my mates pointed out from episode one lee is clearly doing a jack dee impression in this show, he's dressed in a dee-like way, moans about stuff, even the beginning sequence reminds me of jack dee's happy hour. so as much as i love stewart lee, fucking hell pot kettle black hypocrite.

Balls. Although they both share some of the dry wit in delivery, their styles and content of their stand up are utterly different. Whereas Dee generally covers day-to-day moanings about why everything is all so gloomy, Lee (fuck - Dee and Lee what's that all about !) tends to cover much wider (and usually much darker) topics and critiques the absurdities of the topics in quite a literary fashion.

'I got the individually wrapped biscuits, and I chewed them up in my mouth, until they were a paste; like a wasp would do'

  mcbpete said:

  melotronic said:

me and my mates pointed out from episode one lee is clearly doing a jack dee impression in this show, he's dressed in a dee-like way, moans about stuff, even the beginning sequence reminds me of jack dee's happy hour. so as much as i love stewart lee, fucking hell pot kettle black hypocrite.

Balls. Although they both share some of the dry wit in delivery, their styles and content of their stand up are utterly different. Whereas Dee generally covers day-to-day moanings about why everything is all so gloomy, Lee (fuck - Dee and Lee what's that all about !) tends to cover much wider (and usually much darker) topics and critiques the absurdities of the topics in quite a literary fashion.

oh yeah, no i agree, all i meant was it struck us as odd how, in the point of his career where he shares the most superficial similarities with dee, lee (tut, too much assonance, you're right) begins drawing attention to it by publically berating dee jack dee. when to be frank, stewart lee isn't quite on career best. although i agree he is better

"The show received a negative review in Time Out, which described Lee as "fat" and his performance as "positively Neanderthal, suggesting a jungle-dwelling pygmy, struggling to coax notes out of a clarinet that has fallen from a passing aircraft", however, this in fact was a satirical "self-review" by Lee himself."

wow, wasn't expecting a stewart lee thread on the watmms

great stuff, i think the extra red button content is my favourite stuff though. really funny

no one else here knows who he is though...so i dont get to talk about him much

coffee and a nan

halfway through but does the fat beardo get up and swing for him?

also lee looks like terry christian/sam allardyce

i watched two and a half hours of lee on the youtube last night. you know, the youtube, you see it on the telly. it on, y'know the computers as well, i had... an error the other day - had to install the latest version of adobe flash.

anyway; i saw stewart lee on my computer using the youtube. like justin lee collins has on that show on sky, you see it on the telly. y'know the computers as well, i had... an error the other day - had to install the latest version of adobe flash.

i had... an error the other day - had to install the latest version of adobe flash. it fixed the problem, and then i watched two and a half hours of lee on the youtube last night. you know, the youtube, you see it on the telly. it on, y'know the computers as well, i had... an error the other day - had to install the latest version of adobe flash.

second season started on BBC2 last night, 11.20pm.

gaaaaah, i missed it.

No way. Never heard anything about it. Ill have to give it a look.

  On 4/28/2011 at 4:03 PM, kaini said:

second season started on BBC2 last night, 11.20pm.

gaaaaah, i missed it.

Really? I thought it started on May 4th

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01129hk/episodes/upcoming

i'm going by this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/27/royal-wedding-secret-kate-wills

  On 4/28/2011 at 5:27 PM, kaini said:

i'm going by this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/27/royal-wedding-secret-kate-wills

I think that must have been a mistake/misprint. The BBC website has it listed as May 4th, and it's not in any listing magazines that I've seen. Also, it's not on iplayer. They probably meant to say 'next Wednesday'.

sweet, that means i haven't missed it. reeeeallly looking forward to this.

bump so people don't forget

oh yeah nice one, i did forget.

off to check iplayer now

edit: ahh it's not been broadcast yet. shall have to wait

on in just under an hour

  On 5/4/2011 at 11:31 PM, kaini said:

on in just under an hour

i don't have a TV, so i'll just watch it on iPlayer later on tonight (if it's put up that soon)

Not bad, enjoyed the mock inability to deliver a stupid gag.

Holy tits, I didn't know this was back yet and now I'm mega ultra going to watch it

after loving his stand up dvd.. i felt letdown, i even told various ppl to tune in as well. and i think they wernt totally entertained first time.

  On 5/5/2011 at 1:02 AM, jim said:

Not bad, enjoyed the mock inability to deliver a stupid gag.

too much meta-comedy in this episode imo. still the best comedian going though.

  On 5/5/2011 at 1:09 AM, kaini said:

  On 5/5/2011 at 1:02 AM, jim said:

Not bad, enjoyed the mock inability to deliver a stupid gag.

 

too much meta-comedy in this episode imo. still the best comedian going though.

Yeah I agree. I think he was using the first episode to comment on the critical reception of the last series so hopefully he'll move on to something else with the next episode.