The sketch at the end was part of the show. This clip is from his TV show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. He usually had one or two sketches per episode.
The weird bit at the end was Stewart Lee imagining a Saturday evening game show trying to cast the lead roles in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot
"That" was a documentary on the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett, famous in the 1950s for his dark, sparse and nihilistic representations of life in plays like Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape. Stewart Lee would certainly know of his work, so I was wondering if the two extracts were in fact connected in some way.
Thanks Thandi. I assumed that the bit at the end was follow on from what he'd said about: imagine if they'd been casting for Beckett's Waiting for Godot, instead of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Partly Lee claiming to be clever again I think ;)
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If they did a reality TV elimination show to cast a Samuel Beckett play, it would fully justify the BBC license-fee for pretentious tossers like me. As people pointed out below, the early Comedy Vehicle episodes had occasional sketches. Lee does the usual schtick of assuming the audience knows what he’s talking about, and if people don’t he berates them for being philistines. It’s a lovely comic device - look up a video called The Audience is the Problem, which explores Lee’s form of postmodern anti-comedy. Keep up your good work Thandi!
I am guessing you aren't familiar with the brilliant and somehow always haggard playwright Samuel Becket. It would be fun to see you react to one of his plays.
So, you haven't heard of either Andrew Lloyd Webber OR Samuel Beckett? No woder you were lost, lol. Andrew Lloyd Webber's arguably the most successful writer and producer of Stage Musicals of all-time. He's won endless awards and is responsible for such musicals as Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and The Phantom of the Opera. His work is extremely popular and commercially successful but he's something of a love/hate figure. Samuel Becket is widely regarded as on of the greatest playwrights of all-time. His work is highly cerebral. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Stewart was referring to a truly dreadful Saturday night talent show, where Andrew Lloyd Webber was looking for a lead to star in a new West End run of his musical, 'Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat'. Originally written as a children's musical and frequently performed in schools, it has also had major success in major theatres around the World. The final section was Sttewart imagining if the same gaudy talent show format had been used to cast people for Beckett's seminal work, "Waiting for Godot". :)
This was from the first series of Comedy Vehicle. Those silly sketches ruined it a bit for me. It's why I suggested skipping it. For the next series the BBC slashed the budget so it was just Stew doing his thing and was tons better IMO
The sketch at the end was part of the show. This clip is from his TV show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. He usually had one or two sketches per episode.
I love your reaction to the bit at the end!
Sound is way too quiet. Couldn't hear what was being said, even after turning it right up.
❤ girlfriend was shocked and upset when we saw the play 30 years ago. and it was her idea.
The weird bit at the end was Stewart Lee imagining a Saturday evening game show trying to cast the lead roles in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot
"That" was a documentary on the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett, famous in the 1950s for his dark, sparse and nihilistic representations of life in plays like Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape. Stewart Lee would certainly know of his work, so I was wondering if the two extracts were in fact connected in some way.
Thanks Thandi. I assumed that the bit at the end was follow on from what he'd said about: imagine if they'd been casting for Beckett's Waiting for Godot, instead of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Partly Lee claiming to be clever again I think ;)
Hi Thandi. Have you see Jim Jeffries’ “Gun Control”? He’s an Australian comedian talking to an American audience about guns!There are 2 parts, both are great. I think you might enjoy them
Good call 🤙
@@peterbulloch4611Thanks Peter!
If they did a reality TV elimination show to cast a Samuel Beckett play, it would fully justify the BBC license-fee for pretentious tossers like me. As people pointed out below, the early Comedy Vehicle episodes had occasional sketches. Lee does the usual schtick of assuming the audience knows what he’s talking about, and if people don’t he berates them for being philistines. It’s a lovely comic device - look up a video called The Audience is the Problem, which explores Lee’s form of postmodern anti-comedy. Keep up your good work Thandi!
I am guessing you aren't familiar with the brilliant and somehow always haggard playwright Samuel Becket.
It would be fun to see you react to one of his plays.
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Best performance of Samuel Becket play: ua-cam.com/video/YK96IJnNse0/v-deo.html
The concept of fun has let itself go
The end is a skit from the end of his show Comedy Vehicle. It will make absolutely no sense out of context
So, you haven't heard of either Andrew Lloyd Webber OR Samuel Beckett? No woder you were lost, lol. Andrew Lloyd Webber's arguably the most successful writer and producer of Stage Musicals of all-time. He's won endless awards and is responsible for such musicals as Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and The Phantom of the Opera. His work is extremely popular and commercially successful but he's something of a love/hate figure. Samuel Becket is widely regarded as on of the greatest playwrights of all-time. His work is highly cerebral. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Stewart was referring to a truly dreadful Saturday night talent show, where Andrew Lloyd Webber was looking for a lead to star in a new West End run of his musical, 'Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat'. Originally written as a children's musical and frequently performed in schools, it has also had major success in major theatres around the World. The final section was Sttewart imagining if the same gaudy talent show format had been used to cast people for Beckett's seminal work, "Waiting for Godot". :)
Why do you laugh before the funny bits is there a delay on the video
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The sketch was the protentious punchline duh
I could hardly hear that Thandi
This was from the first series of Comedy Vehicle. Those silly sketches ruined it a bit for me. It's why I suggested skipping it. For the next series the BBC slashed the budget so it was just Stew doing his thing and was tons better IMO
@@peterbulloch4611 The sketches were Stew doing his thing too. He wrote them and included them for a reason.