Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - BBC2 10pm from 16th March
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I didn't like the staging, music or plot. But I thought that the lines themselves were clever, as was the general setting and message.
maomao
普費斯
Which was very well written and performed by other people. Hence my comment about his delivery skill.
In last night's show I correctly predicted the next ten minutes of the routine once he was halfway through the bit about Woolworths. It was like, ok, he's laid out Woolworths, MFI, zavvi and he's going to repeat the routine for all 3. And he did, right up to the zavi bit. I'd prefer something a little more challenging. Maybe you're just not as clever as me.
Maybe not. Maybe my intelligence stock is just too damned low. Still, at least I got to enjoy the way in which he physically created the feeling of frustration that he has for the way in which commercial nostalgia has taken over from true intrinsic worth. So maybe it's worth not being as clever as you.
Oh, most definitely.
It works better live though, without a doubt. In person, in an enclosed space, there is almost a tangible, visceral pathos. In 42nd Best Stand-Up, he spent a good 5 minutes pretending to be Littlejohn changing the gravestone of a murdered sex-worker, tapping with his microphone until you almost wanted to scream with the futility of it. But you couldn't escape from it and the eventual denouement said more about the contempt that he holds for the likes of Littlejohn than any amount of wisecracks would.
He's a great follower of the work of the 1980's cult comedian Ted Chippington, who used to apparently hold his own audience in contempt, turning their approbation back on themselves. Personally, I never got Ted Chippington and still don't. But can see that there is clearly something there to be got.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
that routine had me in stitches
'I wonder just how far Richard Littlejohn would go in his quest for the accurate naming of dead women'
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
He seems to be a bit harsh on thick people at times, but I wonder whether thick people would want people of moderate intelligence being offended on their behalf.
He's harsh on the greedy, the venal and the corrupt too, but no one ever speaks up for them.
First they came for the estate agents . . .
He's harsh on the greedy, the venal and the corrupt too, but no one ever speaks up for them.
First they came for the estate agents . . .
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
this epise had better be an improvement on last weeks.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
I agree, tho i thought he may have had the balls to have a go at the lazy comedy of some US black stand ups and the "The black man drive down the street like this, whilst the white man drive down the street like that" that all of these so-called master stand ups seem to rely on when it was done perfectly by Pryor 30 years ago. He didn't go there, where it a subject ripe for analysing i think. Rant over.
clandestino
no llevar papel
i enjoyed this last episode the most of all of them i think.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
I do tend to agree with this - its oh so easy to have a go at popular low-common-denominator things in his sneery smug way, but he could at least be funny about it.
I think it was dear Stephen Fry who said its easy to slag everything off, but harder to talk about stuff you like and are passionate about, cos you'll be opening yourself up to smug nobheads like Lee disparaging about it.
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
Heh, I thought it was one the weakest.
And I know the sketches are always awful, but that apple one started off OK but went on for about 5 hours too long.
Surely they realised that the one called "Religion" went out on Easter Monday when they did the schedules, so maybe something more topical caused them to shift the last two around.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Funny how the two 40 year old men on this thread thought the episode about the comedian doing his "I'm a 40 year old man and I hate the Travelodge" routine was funny. 
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Yes.
<edit2add> The actor Kevin Eldon was excellent in the apple shop sketch at the end IMO.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
wicked pisstake of Bill Hicks - he needed taking down a peg or two
Winston Legthigh
Band
i have to confess I didn't get that bit atall. what was the actual joke? (other than, bill hicks only had one joke - and it was about mice
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Bill Hicks was a bit shit but gets fawned over cos he was ranty and died early.
Winston Legthigh
Band
i didn't really get that from the sketch, although i vaguely remember something about no-one liking the richard pryor character cos he got old, so i guess you're right
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