Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
- TV stand-up / sketch show
- BBC Two
- 2009 - 2016
- 24 episodes (4 series)
Stand-up comedy show, punctuated with sketches. Stewart Lee tackle a different topic each week in his own inimitable fashion. Also features Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Peter Serafinowicz, Paul Putner, Kevin Eldon and more.
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Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - Political Correctness
Further details
Stewart asks whether political correctness really has gone mad, or whether it is just something people say because they don't really understand what it means. Stewart thinks he knows what it means - though the tale of how his attempts to lose weight were ruined by the PC minefield makes him not so sure... not to mention the story of how a lost ballet shoe caused a national scandal.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 30th March 2009
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Stewart Lee | Host / Presenter |
| Peter Serafinowicz | Voice Over (Voice) |
| Paul Putner | Ensemble Actor |
| Kevin Eldon | Ensemble Actor |
| Tara Flynn | Ensemble Actor |
| Cathryn Bradshaw | Ensemble Actor |
| Stephen K Amos | Ensemble Actor |
| Sarah Thom | Ensemble Actor |
| Stewart Lee | Writer |
| Chris Morris | Script Editor |
| Tim Kirkby | Director |
| Richard Webb | Producer |
| Armando Iannucci | Executive Producer |
| Anthony Boys (as Ant 'Pants' Boys) | Editor |
| Simon Rogers | Production Designer |
Video
Lee and Iannucci - Political Correctness
Stewart and Armando talk about political correctness.
Featuring: Armando Iannucci & Stewart Lee.
Press
The urbane Lee continues to do his bit to redress the shortage of stand-up comedy on TV. We're overrun with panel shows in which comics slice and dice their stand-up ideas into witty chunks but we get fewer full-length routines.
What Lee shows over the course of a half-hour programme is how a longer time frame lets him toy with an idea, stretch it to breaking point, and play on preconceptions so that by the end you almost feel part of an unusually witty sociology seminar.
Having said all that, tonight's edition isn't as thick with laugh-out-loud moments as it might be. Some of the better jokes are in the sketches: look out for the spoof Hitler speeches ("And you can't even hit your kids any more!" he rants in German) and Stephen K Amos lifting an otherwise daft joke about Kofi Annan.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 30th March 2009Stewart Lee's amusing stand-up show, with accompanying (and, unfortunately, less amusing) sketches, continues tonight with a concerted examination of political correctness. Well, concerted in as much as it gives Lee an excuse to wave a child's ballet shoe over the audience and make jokes about the Finsbury Park branch of Weight Watchers.
Pete Naughton, The Telegraph, 30th March 2009Lee's wonderfully witty weekly barrage against the stupidities of modern life has left us asking one question - why has it taken 10 years for a TV channel to recognise his formidable talent? And, while we're at it, why isn't his former double-act partner, Richard Herring, on the telly screen, either? Regardless, political correctness - or what people assume to be political correctness - is on Stewart's radar tonight. Incoming!
What's On TV, 30th March 2009