I preferred it to last week's. The Del Boy section made me laugh a lot.
Keep forgetting the red button.
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - Series 1 Page 12
I laughed out loud a few times during the first half of the show, but the abysmal Del Boy routine made me forget that I had done so.
Bit disappointed by this week's offering. Lee came over more as an intellectual bully then a considered critic of contemporary culture.
Some of his targets were weak - Adrian Chiles, Ant and Dec, Andrew Lloyd Webber - all of whom have been ridiculed with astonishing accuracy and greater aplomb by funnier, wittier and more astute observers.
Not only was Stewart Lee biting the hand that feeds him by attacking the very people who watch his show, but the blatant, irony free hypocrisy of slating a pratfall from Only Fools And Horses as being entertainment for idle minded simpletons and then contrasting this by repeatedly showing liquid poo flying from the telly is beyond comprehension.
Charlie Brooker has nothing to worry about.
P.S. When they showed the actual clip of Del Boy falling through the bar, I did laugh.
Quote: zooo @ March 23 2009, 10:52 PM GMTI preferred it to last week's. The Del Boy section made me laugh a lot.
Keep forgetting the red button.
Just press it now and go to the Comedy section, the interview is just on a loop. 
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 23 2009, 10:57 PM GMTthe blatant, irony free hypocrisy of slating a pratfall from Only Fools And Horses as being entertainment for idle minded simpletons and then contrasting this by repeatedly showing liquid poo flying from the telly is beyond comprehension.
Very, very true.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 23 2009, 10:57 PM GMTSome of his targets were weak - Adrian Chiles, Ant and Dec, Andrew Lloyd Webber - all of whom have been ridiculed with astonishing accuracy and greater aplomb by funnier, wittier and more astute observers.
Yep, the targets were a bit obvious.
Not only was Stewart Lee biting the hand that feeds him by attacking the very people who watch his show, but the blatant, irony free hypocrisy of slating a pratfall from Only Fools And Horses as being entertainment for idle minded simpletons and then contrasting this by repeatedly showing liquid poo flying from the telly is beyond comprehension.
Surely that was the point though, same shit over and over again kind of thing?
I thiiiink Lee says he doesn't really watch other comics much. (I might be totally wrong about that, I may be thinking of someone else) and that may be the side effect of that. The bad side to it being you won't know who the common targets are.
Living in the countryside, may I just say that the Delboy festival was very, very believable.
I would have thought that common sense would allow one to know who the common targets are? Either way, someone having been attacked before doesn't mean that they shouldn't be attacked again, IMO. Just wasn't done very well in this case, which highlighted it.
Quote: zooo @ March 23 2009, 11:07 PM GMTI thiiiink Lee says he doesn't really watch other comics much. (I might be totally wrong about that, I may be thinking of someone else) and that may be the side effect of that. The bad side to it being you won't know who the common targets are.
Isn't Lee a big fan of the Boosh and Josie Long and other shitty comedians like those?
Then I'm probably thinking of someone else!
I also thought some of the targets were a bit obvious. Especially the tobyjug/Chiles reference. But then he did make it his own by adding the full of hot piss comment.
(And I like Chiles, might I add.)
Quote: zooo @ March 23 2009, 11:10 PM GMTEspecially the tobyjug/Chiles reference.
That's one of the bits I laughed at.
Quote: zooo @ March 23 2009, 11:10 PM GMTBut then he did make it his own by adding the full of hot piss comment.
That's one of the bits I sniggered lightly at.
Quote: zooo @ March 23 2009, 11:10 PM GMT(And I like Chiles, might I add.)
Also - although I don't know why.
I did like the March of the Mallards bit a lot.
I'm quite enjoying this, but he does seem to do one of my pet peeves with stand-ups. The thing where he just keeps going on and on and on about the same thing for about 5 minutes with no new joke. Just repeating the same damn thing. Ross Noble is a swine for it.
Apart from that I like it though.
The Del Boy routine was interminable. His approach to gag telling seems to be that because he is so much more insightful than his audience that is just going to bloody well keep going until even the most retarded of them has got the joke.
It's kind of one of Lee's trademarks now. It is usually about something that in itself is repetitive so he repeats it to make a point. It works great live, it doesn't seem to work quite as well on TV, although I did really enjoy the Delboy routine.