Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - Series 2 (UPDATE)

Mark X · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 2:49

Bluce_Ree wrote:

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.

A bit late to reply, because you've already seen him by now, but I do hope he has moved back towards "being good" as opposed to "boasting about how he's been smashing the system by annoying receptionists and desk sergeants". In the days of Channel Four's Saturday Zoo (which badly needs to be put on UKNova), Viva Cabaret (ditto) and the first series of Comedy Product, he was Very Good Indeed. Since then: at best, a largely uninspired Rob Newman tribute act.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2041

he wasn't great. it was lots of boasting about things he's done with some okay gags thrown in there. he kept putting on a post accent for effect and it got tiresome.

glad I saw him, not sure I'll bother again though.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 15:34

markh wrote:

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

Listening to it now, it's not too bad at all. It's not a soundboard recording, it's a mic in the crowd. Perfectly audible and the crowd buzz is very good.

Morte · **Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 16:57

Bluce_Ree wrote:

he wasn't great. it was lots of boasting about things he's done with some okay gags thrown in there. he kept putting on a post accent for effect and it got tiresome.

glad I saw him, not sure I'll bother again though.

That is a real shame. I've not seen Mark Thomas live since he began doing the TV shows (so about 10 years) but when he was doing the 'straight' stand up he was without doubt the best and most filthy (these two things may be connected) British comedian of his generation.

markh · **Joined:** 13th Oct, 2008 **Posts:** 903

Dimrill wrote:

markh wrote:

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

Listening to it now, it's not too bad at all. It's not a soundboard recording, it's a mic in the crowd. Perfectly audible and the crowd buzz is very good.

Excellent, thanks. Order coming up!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 17:01

It is very funny as well. Very very funny indeed.

Sledge · **Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 17:30

I thought I really rather liked Stewart Lee's shtick before this series aired but, the religion episode aside*, I've struggled with it. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but a recurring theme seems to be that literature is inherently more worthwhile than pulp and aren't we, the enlightened who understand such things, oh so superior. And while one can forgive a sixth-former his/her desperate need to maintain that point of view, for a forty (fifty?) year old man it's a bit... lame. Collins and Herring (I know) FTW!

*Because, I would say, criticising religion is a matter of rationalism (yaay!) rather than elitism (boo!), so that episode didn't jar like the ones I found irrationally elitist (triple boo!)

myp · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 13:39

Sledge wrote:

Collins and Herring FTW!

I concur, your excellency.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

On the basis of this thread I watched the religion episode last night on the YouTube and I have to say I was entirely underwhelmed. The video spots were unfunny to the last, and the stand-up was just a bit "meh". And I say this as a big SLee fan.

However, this thread has prompted me to check out Collins and Herring, which is brillopads. So on balance this thread is made of Win.

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Wed May 06, 2009 16:55

Mr Chris wrote:

However, this thread has prompted me to check out Collins and Herring, which is brillopads.

I'm really the only person who finds that podcast completely unbearable, then? Richard Herring's occasionally funny but you have to wade through a LOT of tedious dross to get to it while Andrew Collins, like his mum, is a fucking idiot.

Sledge · **Posted:** Wed May 06, 2009 22:38

Mr Chris wrote:

On the basis of this thread I watched the religion episode last night on the YouTube and I have to say I was entirely underwhelmed.

Sorry -- I feel a mite responsible for that. It occurred to me today that my view might've been spoiled by Fist Of Fun because I am, essentially, watching half an act as far as my brain is concerned.

Rodafowa wrote:

I'm really the only person who finds that podcast completely unbearable, then?

It did nearly go horribly wrong at one point -- there's a spate of episodes towards the start where they're basically just shouting at each other and it's all a bit much. It makes a nice change from some of the heavier poddies I listen to, though, which is quite handy as I listen to podcasts practically all day.

tossrStu · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1326

This returns tonight! BBC2, 11.20.

Also:

Pundabaya wrote:

I toyed with watching it, then realised that I'd spend the entire time thinking of how much I want to punch Stewart Lee in the face instead of laughing. He does have an incredibly punchable face, doesn't he? (I could just close my eyes, but fantasizing about punching Stewart Lee is still more fun than sitting in complete, stony silence.)

Of course, this wasn't helped by reading that article about his 'Del-boy falling through the bar' bit. How dare he take shots at one of the finest pieces of physical comedy seen on British television? Fucking smug-faced cunt. I mean, its no longer as funny as it once was, but if you take any piece of comedy and rip its screaming form from the womb of context and force it to repeat itself twelve million times... Well, little can survive that. See also most of Python's famous stuff.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6232/sleebeex.png

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Haha, brilliant!

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed May 04, 2011 20:26

I recognised the quote but still a genuine LOL reading the web address at the end of that

Good work. Not wrong either to be fair, no matter how much I love TMWRNJ / FOF (which is just out on DVD by the way).

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2011 10:37

Rodafowa wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

However, this thread has prompted me to check out Collins and Herring, which is brillopads.

I'm really the only person who finds that podcast completely unbearable, then? Richard Herring's occasionally funny but you have to wade through a LOT of tedious dross to get to it while Andrew Collins, like his mum, is a fucking idiot.

It took a while to warm up (about 13 episodes), but considering it's two blokes making stuff up as they go along, it's highly entertaining.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Quote:

I mean, its no longer as funny as it once was, but if you take any piece of comedy and rip its screaming form from the womb of context and force it to repeat itself twelve million times... Well, little can survive that.

Isn't that, like, the irony/point of Lee's entire bit on the subject? I'm concerned that I may have jumped into some sort of multi-layered irony-fest here, and may have missed the point of Pundabaya's point. Or something.

But anyway, I thought last night's episode was alright. Hoping it gets better.

Also, excellent work getting quoted on his site! I can't believe we haven't had an influx of new members as a result, though...

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2011 10:50

tossrStu wrote:

This returns tonight! BBC2, 11.20.

Also:

Pundabaya wrote:

I toyed with watching it, then realised that I'd spend the entire time thinking of how much I want to punch Stewart Lee in the face instead of laughing. He does have an incredibly punchable face, doesn't he? (I could just close my eyes, but fantasizing about punching Stewart Lee is still more fun than sitting in complete, stony silence.)

Of course, this wasn't helped by reading that article about his 'Del-boy falling through the bar' bit. How dare he take shots at one of the finest pieces of physical comedy seen on British television? Fucking smug-faced cunt. I mean, its no longer as funny as it once was, but if you take any piece of comedy and rip its screaming form from the womb of context and force it to repeat itself twelve million times... Well, little can survive that. See also most of Python's famous stuff.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6232/sleebeex.png

Fantastic

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Thanks to Dimrill, I saw this last night. I'd seen the material already, on his test run tour (albeit delayed until after he'd filmed the programme), but laughed more last night. Seeing his chubby little face helped, as did the excellent bits with Iannucci. I love Stewart Lee.

gravy · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6232/sleebeex.png

Just saw him live at the stand and he read that out with the aside "and that's from a site called be excellent to each other" <stewart lee quizical look>

Plissken · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 19:08

Free advertising!

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

kwollity

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

It's "Be excellent to each other" not "Be excellent to Stewart Lee".

I love you though, Stew. :luv:

Alarm · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 19:45

gravy wrote:

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6232/sleebeex.png

Just saw him live at the stand and he read that out with the aside "and that's from a site called be excellent to each other" <stewart lee quizical look>

Wow, Stewart Lee made me laugh! Sort of.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 22:19

Thought I'd bump this, as Stewart Lee's latest stand-up show, Carpet Remnant World, came out on DVD yesterday and (as we know) features our very own Pundabaya, with a reference to beexcellenttoeachother.com

So, best to bump this thread so that any newcomers visiting off the back of the DVD can find the right thread

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Where's my fucking royalties?!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 22:24

Speaking of which, Fist of Fun series 2's now available from Go Faster Stripe.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 22:26

Dimrill wrote:

Speaking of which, Fist of Fun series 2's now available from Go Faster Stripe.

Oooo. Cheers Dimmers.

The show on the DVD is better than the one I went to see, he must have switched bits around for the recorded version.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 22:26

Ooh, and the Lee & herring Gamesmaster is Right Here.

Malc · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 22:40

fist of fun has been cut by the bbc though

Quote:

the cuts are:

- Episode 3 - Lady Diana segment
- Episode 4 - Parents suing a theatre segment
- Episode 5 - Reference to the child in episode 4

We’ve also removed the obsolete bbc email, post and web addresses from the end of each episode and the address of the newsagent that Peter visits.

And from the video podcast:

- reference to drug taking TV executives
“Stand-up” Stew’s opinion of his poor treatment by the bbc
- bit where Rich said Stew would lose his audience if he had sex with a child
- section mentioning Alan Partridge rights
- the section where they talk about buying back Fist of Fun for 2/3rd what the bbc paid them to do it in the first place

Malc

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 22:43

Morris Mitchener's gone?! Lucky I still have the originally aired .avi then.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 22:48

Man, episode 3 must be ribbons then, as the show opens with the Diana bit.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Dimrill wrote:

Morris Mitchener's gone?! Lucky I still have the originally aired .avi then.

Crikey, that takes me back!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Nov 26, 2012 15:58

Go Faster Stripe are shipping Fist of Fun series 2 now. I got mine the morning. Nowt about the edits in the explainery text for each episode though.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 0:49

Oh man, the commentary tracks are awesome. And I don't use that word lightly.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 0:58

Bloody hell, Katy Brand's in the audience of episode one.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:43

Blinking flip... remember the teachers bit they did? Remember Stu's character's jailbait student obsession? That was Kelly Brooks.

:blown:

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:38

What's the picture quality like? Does it look like it's been recorded from an old VHS, or is it "DVD quality"?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:40

duhvduh qltuy./

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:46

Ta - that'll be a purchase then.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Still no royalties from smug-face. I'm waiting!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22387

We should all go to a show and ask him for them.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Dimrill wrote:

Bloody hell, Katy Brand's in the audience of episode one.

I know you don't mean this, but still.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 19:26

Plenty of Dye Ahn Are stuff in the production tapes. Strangely unexpunged the scamps.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

I quite fancy Katy Brand after googling her. She's a famous person, then?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 21:00

I also like Katy Brand. She's nicely built.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 21:00

throughsilver wrote:

I quite fancy Katy Brand after googling her.

Terrible comedienne.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

She's cute and could probably knack me in a fight. So yeah.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 21:10

She'd also crush you between her powerful thighs.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2022 13:15

Google sent more people to this thread last month than any other.

To the 91 people that got here expecting something useful - sorry

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38642

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