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Look, you're not going to change the fact that I enjoy and laugh at such things.

Not at all, it was the logical fallacy that amused me, more than anything.

My work here is done. *ascends to heaven*

I'll be watching this on iPlayer later. I do love a bit of Stewart Lee, and find slightly over-burning jokes far funnier than cramming as many into a short space as possible, à la Tim Vine, whom I find infuriatingly relentlessly unfunny.

I can definitely understand the complaints of anyone who doesn't like Lee. But he still really makes me laugh.

The bar is set fairly low these days, isn't it?

I can appreciate both ends, the long drawn out jokes ala Stewart Lee, and the 500 jokes a minute one liners of Tim Vine. And stuff inbetween too.

I just like funny

Malc

So the Doc can get a round in.

It is when the intellectual midgets require a drink.

H4H4!

Stop being me. I hate Tim Vine with a passion.

See how I descend to ad hominem to prove my point. That should amuse you.

Fuck.

Guys, help.

It's like you've just been vomited on by a Boomer. You know it was your own fault for not spotting it sooner, but yet it tastes so good.

He's awful. The only time I saw him live he was bottled off stage. Was in Birmingham, mind.

I ate so much the other day I started making vomiting noises to annoy Miss Malabar. Without thinking, she shouted 'BOOMER!' and punched me in the stomach. Cunt.

I thought you loved puns?

Malc

he never should have stopped doing Newnight.

I do. Just not an endless stream of one-liners with no observational humour or preamble.

If I were you, I'd steer clear of the bits and bobs thread...

Malc

I already do.

Puns are the thing that I do when I'm on here or in the pub with my mates. I couldn't imagine going up on stage and doing it solidly for an hour—it'd be rubbish!

Malc is right. Stewart Lee and Tim Vine are both excellent. It was marvellous to see Stew back on TV.

Tim Vine is the rubbishest of the rubbish. And putting him and Lee Mack on a tv show together is someone's idea of a pisstake. That or the result of a drunken bet.

30 seconds? Fucking luxury!

Hang on I'll shotgun him off you.

I got around to watching this last night. I didn't really laugh a lot, which is a shame as I usually love Lee's work. Hopefully it'll pick up. I'm not sure I like it being so short, though. With Lee's style, short time-slots just don't work.

This sums up how I felt about it pretty well (I don't love Lee, but do enjoy his stuff). I do look forward to seeing the others - especially as Lave said he felt the books one was one of the weaker.

Ali thinks you're rubbish in the pub too.

Watched the second episode last night, and it was definitely an improvement on the first. I laughed a fair bit more, but Lee failed to have me in stitches like a lot of his older material did.

On the parts I didn't find funny, his repetition stood out like a sore thumb and really began to grate on me. I can completely understand how non-fans find him annoying now.

I will keep watching, though. It did give me a few decent laughs.

I laughed a lot harder during the first episode than the second.

I've enjoyed it so far. However I can only assume that he's a lot better live, otherwise I'm really struggling to understand all the hype around him.

I'm really not keen at all having made it through one and a half episodes now.

He really does come across as a completely smug twat whereas for some reason I don't find Richard Herring blethering on about his tour constantly and talking over Andrew Collins as annoying - even though it should be.

A lot of it's clever, but that doesn't mean it's funny. Al Murray last week was fucking brilliant and covertly clever, The TMWRNJ tour that I saw live years ago was painful because I laughed that much.

Maybe I'm expecting too much but like many things - he's not as as good as he used to be.

At times during the programme I saw I had the feeling that the material would work better in an article rather than as a spoken performance. There were some good ideas there, but they just weren't funny

I'd about agree with this. I tittered more at this than the previous one for sure.

I feel exactly the same, only the exact opposite. I've really enjoyed both episodes of SLCV so far, but find the Collings and Herrin podcast completely unbearable.

How come this doesn't play properly on iPlayer, but everything else does? That's the second week I've tried at different times of the day to get it to play.

A: Because the BBC hates anything good.

Have you tried using the download option on iPlayer? Both the first two episodes worked fine for me that way.

Yeah, I haven't watched it yet for that reason.

I had to reload the page and click on the video several times to play it on my iPhone. I'm a tenacious bastard, me.

I've seen Lee twice live and this show gives me the same vibe, it isn't gut-burstingly funny, but it is written to within an inch of its life. Not a dropped comma, a wrongly placed word or pause.

So it comes down to whether you can get into that vibe instead of the usual "BANG! CRASH! PUNCHLINE!". Personally, I take it or leave it, and have to be in the mood for something as considered as his stuff but when he hits, he really does hit.

Just had an email from Go Faster Stripe. 3CD set of Stew's What Would Judas Do? show coming soon! SQUEEE!

Really rather liked the Religion episode. Best one of the series.

I laughed out loud quite a lot. It was good.

Me too. Also, where can I go and see Jerry Sadowitz?

Stew is the guest on Genius tonight at 10pm on Beeb2. I may break my self imposed rule and watch the otherwise fucking shit programme.

In other Stew news, I received my copy of What Would Judas Do this morning. I'm looking forward to a good old listen of that.

Ooh, let us know what the sound quality's like. I almost insta-purchased but heard the sound was a bit 'lo-fi'

I'm seeing Mark Thomas tonight. I'm hoping it's more gags and a little less politics. I saw him do stand up like 15 years ago and he was amazing.

Will do Mr Markh.

I listened to the delightful Rob Newman radio broadcast on iPlayer the other night. Very good it were too.

since its the most up-to-date tv thread, whats decent on the uk tv at the moment since stew and newswipe has finished. be honest if its not on iplayer i probably wont watch it, convience and that.