Stewart Lee - Scooby Doo Thatcher Routine (Carpet Remnant World 2012)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Scooby Doo as a commentary on Thatcherite and Tory socioeconomic policy and Stewart Lee's existential despair.
An insight into the thoughts of David Cameron, William Beveridge, and Margaret Thatcher regarding the provision of jungle canyon rope bridges at both a national and regional level.
"In many ways [my wife] Samantha is a very ordinary girl; she once used a jungle canyon rope bridge."
- David Cameron
"All mystery investigating teenagers, and dogs, of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution, and in return all the jungle canyon rope bridges will be fully maintained in a safe condition."
- William Beveridge
"A mystery investigating teenager, or dog, who, beyond the age 26, finds himself still using a jungle canyon rope bridge can count himself a failure in life."
- Margaret Thatcher
An excerpt from Stewart Lee's 2011 / 2012 touring show, Carpet Remnant World.
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My Dad worked for the British Jungle Canyon Rope Bridge Maintenance Corporation in the 80s. He was made redundant after privatisation and spent years working for small jungle maintenance firms in the West Midlands. Investment in jungle canyon rope bridges was halved under Thatcher and the excess profits routed through the Pirate Zombie Holding Company which was registered on a mysterious island somewhere in the Caribbean.
My dad was able to by his very own plank from a jungle canyon rope bridge. I can see it from here.
Siskin's Bits and Bobs *buy (damn my piss poor education).
Im really sorry to hear about that mate. My uncle also worked for a small jungle canyon rope bridge maintenance firm in Stockport in the 1980s. The company was closed as most jungle canyon rope bridge maintenance firms have relocated to the Caribbean and Latin America. Apparently there is more demand for Canyon Rope Bridge Maintenance firms over there than in greater Manchester.
BRING BACK THE JUNGLE CANYON ROPE BRIDGE JOBS (Corbyn, J. 2017)
I know this is an unpopular sentiment but I felt that the Jungle Canyon rope bridges needed to go anyway, they were outmoded and falling behind. Yeah, they did the job for the most part but it was time for them to go. Of course I have to agree that more could have been done to keep them in better condition. Crying shame that so many had to die from partly broken planks. Kids, naturally, were fucking shit at crossing the thing despite the campaigns done to make sure all parents either held the hand of their canyon crossing progeny or carry them. Since the instantaneous filling in of all of the jungle canyons in '88 (which is presumably why I don't remember any of them) and subsequent decline of zombie pirates (there used to be quite a few in my local area when I was young, now I only know of a couple still going) it's hard to argue that excursions as a whole have gotten a lot safer.
Still have to think that the government should have allowed the option for classical use of extremely strong vines that dangled from clouds. Would have saved a lot of lives. My Dad told me stories of swinging across some of the massive canyons back in the day and it sounds amazing. Glad to see that some of the old canyons in the jungles up and around Staffordshire and Dorset are being opened up to the public again to bring in tourists and for experience days. Wonder if that'll boost the zombie pirate numbers. Anyway, it was good to reminisce. If you're ever crossing a jungle canyon rope bridge I mean, obvious first; be careful but also, y'know, just remember your history. And if yu see any mystery investigating teenagers, give them a little shove over the edge, they'll probably try t accuse you of something and fondle your face like you;re wearing a mask. Rampant LSD use. Cheers.
I saw Stewart Lee playing pinball on a Stewart Lee themed pinball machine where even the ball had an image of Stewart Lee on it. As Stewart Lee released the plunger and fired the ball I thought "Stewart Lee has let himself go."
Fucking brilliant.
Long walk to that joke
Uh I'm pretty sure that was Ratko Mladic you saw
The long journey was worth it..... brilliant!!!!
It was a reflection.
I was a teenager in the '80s. I can remember all the mysteries we used to solve until Thatcher came along and took all the jungle canyon rope bridges away.
There's no finer comedy than Ratko Mladic heckling the audience. The layers, the self-knowledge and self-indulgence, the conducting of the room...
My favourite bit is "dog", said in a high voice.
not to mention the genocide.
Dog?!
"There is no such thing as a society. There are individual mystery-investigating teenagers and dogs ( _dogs!_ ) and there are gangs of mystery-investigating teenagers and dogs ( _dogs!_ ),"
-Margaret "Stop Calling Me "Margaret "Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher, Jungle Canyon Rope Bridge Snatcher" Thatcher" Thatcher, circa 1980
"The shareholders' dividends were ringfenced against pirate zombie infestation" has to be the greatest sentence I've ever heard.
Is it though, or are you just saying that because he said it was his favourite part and you want to seem clever.
@@dandimascio99 No, it's because I think it's genuinely a very funny sentence. Why would I want to seem clever in a UA-cam comment? lol
I preferred the bit when he said "dog" in a high voice
"The shareholders' dividends were ringfenced against pirate zombie infestation" has to be the greatest sentence I've ever heard.
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Yeah well perhaps if your investment margins had been decimated by the foetid ranks of the buccaneering undead, while the fat cats sauntered past in their ringenced palm-frond canoes, you might not think it was quite so great. *No offence, I'm just saying.*
The weakest part of the whole routine imo
I saw this tour live. My friend had an episode of bad breathing and had to leave to medicate himself. Lee used him as the guy who leaves and becomes a punchline. He felt so special. We all did. Thank you Stew.
I saw this tour live too. I didn't know what to expect as I just went along with a friend. He didn't do many jokes. I guess he just chose not to.
@@jazzzzdude underrated comment lol
@@0228christian that's it. Just give it to me straight.
Him shouting "DID SHE FUCK" is one of my all time favourite things that he has ever said 🤣
I have decided that this is Stewart Lee's most brilliant routine.
Actually, what I've decided is that coming on the internet and saying that I find this routine to be his best work makes me sound intelligent. The reality is, I didn't understand any of it. "Jungle canyon rope bridges"? "Thatcher"? What the hell is he banging on about? I wasn't born in the 80s.
I was born in the 70s.
You're like Stewart Lee.
On drugs.
No matter how many times I see this, the jokes just don’t get old. Flawless routine with a perfect delivery.
There has never been a better routine on the basis of a comic not having enough relatable material. Brilliant.
I don't think I've ever seen him struggle so hard not to break, lol.
Having lived through the 80's as a member of the Pirate Zombie Community, we were told that the dividends from the privatization of the Jungle Canyon Rope Bridge LLC would trickle down to us. It was tough but now I drive an Uber so we're catching up.
There are two completely different audiences who will understand this; those who grew up under Thatcher, and those who have seen Scooby Doo on Zombie Island a few too many times. 😂
YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT A LOT!
I grew up in Essex, in the eighties. The jungle canyon rope bridges were there, but, had been vandalised by young people on ecstasy- the love drug
This is possibly the greatest 15 minutes in modern stand-up, at least to a British audience.
I lve in Australia, and it's my favourite bit of stand up by a long way...hysterical and socially relevant.
i`m from austria and i love english stand up`s...... steward lee, ricky gervais, dylan moran, bill bailey
@@silviopauli661 Dylan Moran isn't from the UK.
His shift from amusement to indignation at 4:27 gets me every single time.
𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐈𝐓 𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐓
It really got me when he said (I think the first time) dog in a high pitched voice and people laughed at it, for a second a look passed of his face and he looked absolutely furious
He gives it straight.....like a pear cider made from 100% pears.
He gives it straight.....like a pear cider made from 100% PEAR...i saw the advert!
Just a one big massive pear?
its not called pear cider its called Perry
@@clivepeacock Hate to be the party pooper, but thats the joke... Railing against the advert that got the actual thing wrong in the first place
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The funniest stand up routine I have ever seen. I watch it every once in a while and it still makes me laugh.
Yep, I come here every 6months or so and am astonished to still crack up like the 1st time, yeeears ago...😊
Possibly the best stand-up routine ever. Brilliant bit @1:58 where he satirizes observational comedy. Never gets old.
I watch this routine once a week, cheers me up no end.
...I find myself doing that now, since I found it recently. Seems to get better every time
it’s a masterpiece of a comedy routine, very well written and performed.
It won't be long before it starts to let itself go.
The way he put the glasses on just before the Ben Elton routine was great
It was worth living under Thatcher for 10 long humiliating years just have the historical basis for this routine to work.
Love it when he puts on the glasses. Perfect timing to become the "expert".
This is possibly the greatest piece of standup I've ever seen. And I'm Mark Thatcher.
And I'm a jungle canyon rope bridge, mate
Well I laughed at it even though I agreed with it. AND I'm from Guildford.
"The shareholders' dividends were ring fenced against pirate zombie infestations." BRILLIANT!! Who else could make this hilarious?? Who else would even come up with this?? I love this so much... I'm not even British (but I was born before the 80s so I remember Thatcher), but I think this is one of the best comedy bits ever devised.
Do you remember all the jungle canyon rope bridges?
This is only the second clip of Stewart Lee that I have seen, in quick succession. I had never heard of him before until now, and I am hooked. He is bloody brilliant. Extremely funny. And as @El Guapo say, quite rightly, a comedy genius. Great stuff. His quotations from famous people has had me in stitches. Excellent !
We could all say that he is bloody brilliant but we choose not to.
This is a very tightly woven routine, like a jungle canyon rope bridge having gone through a full local body beatification scheme.
this is one of the greatest stand up bits ever
I know he doesn’t appeal to everyone and his audiences are often brandished ‘pretentious’ and part of the ‘liberal elite’, but you have to admit (regardless of your opinion of him) that he is incredibly original and intelligent and that the routines are miles ahead of most comedians
@Days Kay I think it's 'gobshite' and 'by far' - just the rules of spelling mate - not my opinion - lol!!! Also, who the fuck is Paul Foot??
@ Gabe Thornes: Agreed, and it's amazing how your extremely understated and nuanced comment has provoked such a visceral reaction (possibly from a conservative 'snowflake' ??!!)
honeychurchgipsy6 water under the bridge mate. Unfortunately nuance doesn’t get anyone far in online forums anymore. Amazing how full caps-lock renders even the most sincere comments comical
The formal symmetry of this show, both between the first & second acts and within each act, is just stunning.
@@mfeltes - I think it is his OPUS. Went to see him earlier this year - his Snowflake Tornado show. The structure of it was even tighter than this - call backs to earlier stories etc. He does a whole Alan Bennet skit that is genius, but the best bit for me was when a heckler in the balcony complained that he was going on too long (he was acting out the everyday life of someone working a mundane job in an office - going through each day of the week) - his response was 'I'm going to add two more days to the sketch' - which he proceeded to do with all the tedious repetition he could muster!!
Stewart Lee, where have you been all my life?! Absolute comedic genius!!
It's worth noting that under this Government, three quarters of all PPE equipment contracts have gone to the Pirate Zombie Holding Company. Clearly, this small, tax-havened firm has no experience whatsoever in either the manufacture, or distribution of such equipment.
tchah, of course pirates know about personal piratical equipment
Idk about anyone else, but my favorite part of this routine is when he says "They we're infested, in the 80's, under thatcher, with uh... Pirate zombies?" The way he says it like a question gets me every time 🤣
Stewart is actually mixing up two Scooby Doo films- Pirates Ahoy and Zombie Island. Says he watched it 180 times smh.
I didn’t realise that. And, to think, he’d have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for you. Thank you.
Your comment is 2 years old, so i feel silly for replyong now, but you're absolutely wrong. Zombie island literally has pirate zombies in. The whole thing is set around the pirate "moonscar" for the first like 40 minuets. If you're gonna aim at the king, you better not miss.
Typical lefty nonsense. Thanks to Thatcher, I now own my own Jungle
Canyon Rope Bridge which I intend to sell when prices have risen
Is that why there is someone dressed up as a vampire who is terrorising nearby jungle canyon rope bridges in your area?
Ha, nice one
Nelson Sweatyballs don’t come all class war with me
When my father lost his jungle canyon rope bridge in the great jungle canyon rope bridge recession of the 1970s...he didn’t riot. He didn’t run in and out of doors down a long corridor. He just got in his van and looked for a new jungle canyon rope bridge
The stand up for Carpet Remnant World in Sheffield might well be the beat stand up gig of all time. The whole thing; this skit, the Ratko Mladic bit, the Works, the banter with the audience, it's all just brilliant.
“Dog” in a high voice.
Slays me every time man...
I love how the 'good' audience members are going along with the bit so well that they've begun experimenting with taking on different personalities to see if they still get the jokes whilst remaining in character! Giggling, snorting and spewing my drink all over the my coffee table!!!
Also favorite line...at 7:33 "No, I won't do that."
And I suppose you only watched this video because friend showed it to you.
Probably the greatest stand-up of them all.
No, you're thinking of Michael McIntosh. And don't forget the Russels.
@@jazzzzdude Brand & ... Peters?
If you mean Stewart Lee's greatest stand-up, then you might be correct, but as far as greatest stand-up comedians I think he's like 41st or 42nd best. I rate him much higher than that, but I guess that's like an average.
Wow, I thought I knew what surreal was until I watched this. What a jungle canyon rope bridge extravaganza !
We used to have free canyon rope bridges but now they are all toll canyon rope bridges. Mud huts are getting smaller, and more expensive. Teenagers don't solve crimes with their dogs (dawgs !!?) any more. Thatcher has a lot to answer for.
This is the greatest stand-up comedian, worldwide, ever.
the dog bit kills me every time, I must be sitting with the fellas upstairs
This man is so talented. Genius.
"You have to watch it a lot!"
The 254 people who disliked this video weren't born in the 80s.
I won't negotiate with them
If I ever see Stewart Lee live I want to be in the section of the audience he insults.
That's anywhere - everyone gets it at some point.
Then you'll have to go with a friend who doesn't know who Stew is. Also you will have to laugh at the wrong bits or not at all. You could heckle him by saying it's not funny and you were expecting some jokes.
Frankie Boyle once said, if he could bring one person or thing back to life, it would be Stewart Lee's sense of humour. Seriously, Frankie doesn't hold a candle to Stewart Lee. This is another wonderful, and unique, piece of stand up. Amazing!
Frankie Boyle rehashes the same material endlessly. It's fun to watch him taking the piss out of a 12 year old kid the first few times, but after awhile...it just gets dull.
Lydia wow...
Did Frankie Boyle invent that line, or was it one of the 3 scriptwriters he uses?
different comedians, telling jokes.....
Frankie Boyle has actually let himself go
Young people why would you come here?? You've got your own things... Circus and fairs,.
The greatest comedy routine ever written.
I laughed more during this than I can recall laughing at anything of similar length featuring actual jokes.
An absolute mastery of standup on some many levels.
No-one touches him.
For the record Scooby Doo on Zombie Island was one of the few good Scooby Doo works.... also had actual monsters rather than some dude gentrifying a region while dressed as a Juggaloo Snowman or something...
JCW4Life. LOL
Well, you know, most of those direct-to-video ‘90s scooby doo films had actual monsters but you’re right, Zombie Island is easily the best of them. Then again, Alien Invasion had some banging music and Witch’s Ghost had Tim Curry so you win some you lose some
@@maxobyrne1474 Great, now I NEED to see Witch's Ghost. Love Tim Curry
..and they would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those pesky kids.
I was born too late into the 80s. My parents probably took me to those last couple bridges, but I dont remember them at all.
"Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick and salty meat extract paste similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnson[1], great-great-grandfather of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson[2]"
Christ
Did you type that comment in character?
Bought 4 of his full sets. Absolutely money well spent, he makes me smile and helps me relax.
P.S. Emil M. Cioran has let himself go.
Canyons! We used to dream of having canyons where I was growing up in the 80's. We had to make do with ditches. Yeah! Bloody Tory cuts!
Oh we dreamed of a ditch. We had to use our neighbour's ditch by walking uphill - both ways!
You were lucky to have a neighbour's ditch to borrow! We had to dig shallow foxholes with our bare hands and then join them all up!
You are lucky you had a spade, we had to cut our own skin off and stitch it together into a makeshift shelter whilst crawling about in our own blood whilst pretending it was a ditch.
Makeshift shelter made from your own skin? Warm and wet from yer own blood wazzit? Luuxury! We used to have to force feed doughnuts to our youngest brother ,doughnuts that we had to shoplift, because Dad was made redundant from his position as rope bridge maintenance man, in the 80's by Tory cuts, under Thatcher. We'd shove doughnuts into poor little Timmy's face for months till he weighed over a 1000 lbs., and was about 3 meters wide. Then we had to haul him down to nearest slaughter house, sneak him in, in the middle of night, freeze him up nice and stiff, and as we didn't want to make noise using the power cutters, we had to use pocket knives to slice him neatly as possible down the middle and use him as a canyon. It was fuukin freezing in that jungle island canyon of ours, under Thatcher and Tory cuts, in the 80's.
You are lucky to have ditches. When I was growing up in the 80s, we had to dig our own potholes 28 hours a day.
from Wikipedia's entry on Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (1998) :In 2011-12, British comedian Stewart Lee dedicated an extensive section of his live show Carpet Remnant World to the "jungle canyon rope bridges" in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island,[28] linking what he described as the parlous state of such bridges with the austerity regime of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[29]
… from Wikipedia’s entry for the movie ‘Archipelago’ (2010) and included within the ‘critical response’ section is ALSO his critique … describing the movie as ‘an art film about middle-class people on a disappointing holiday’. I’ve not seen it myself but, I trust British comedian Stewart Lee. He gives it to you straight. Let himself go, tho’.🤔😉✌️
The _Schwerer Gustav_ super-heavy railway gun used by the Wehrmacht during World War 2 has let itself go.
That painting which that spanish pensioner restored has let itself go
That was brilliant satire in 2014. :\
@@LordmonkeyTRM this was an original response in 2018
Genius. I can't stop watching this one bit!
Badly maintained suspension bridge in Teesdale, Winch Bridge, collapsed in the 19th century and miners fell into 40' of water and drowned. All the fault of predecessors of Thatcher!
* You meant "All the fault of Thatcher!"
Perhaps his most brilliant bit ever
I don't agree with most of Stuart Lee's opinions but he is a comic genius. Sometimes you find yourself watching him, thinking this guy is a fucking amazing.
I agree the hell out of him.
Surely you must agree that the infestation of pirate zombies in the 80s was solely down to privatization though? I mean, hes bang on there.
+olliegalli1234 We used to have free canyon rope bridges but now they are all toll canyon rope bridges. Mud huts are getting smaller, Teenagers don't solve crimes with their dogs (dawgs !!?) any more.
He's on the Nth layer of irony.
Who the fuck is Stuart Lee? This guy's brother? And what is a "fucking amazing"? This comment is a fucking puzzling.
I've watched this ten times and I only just realised that the delivery is a reference to the coked up observational humour comedians thing from earlier
His timing is perfect with the "180 times" hahaha.
LIKE!
Correct
Well, Birmingham sounds like a bloody paradise compared to Lanarkshire in Central Scotland where Jungle Canyon Rope Bridges were axed and instead, Thatcher set up the steel industry to deliberately cause the death of Jungle Canyon Rope Bridges on the big yards of The Clyde. That woman...well, I'm too much of a gentleman to say what I really think by the way... She actually sewed the seeds of the new Scottish Jungle Canyon Rope Bridge movement now galvanising us Scots to break away like the rotten, twisted vines we saw in the 70's under Thatcher! Freeeeedom! (that was another sketch)
I'm up a ladder,putting lining paper up,fucking crying laughter here,thanks stu
Brave heart in Glasgow is one of best ten or fifteen minutes of comedy I've seen.
Your comment on a Stewart Lee video has let itself go
That is the absolute zenith of that joke - it can be stopped now. Thank you.
Was that Richard 'The Hamster' Hammond falling in the canyon?
Not even a real hamster.
hahaha gypsies, can i have my milk now daddy?
No, it wasn't, that's not true. But I think that the notion that it MIGHT have been Richard 'The Hamster' Hammond tells us something about him that IS true.
Not that he's a real hamster, mind. Because he isn't.
i'm not making any joke there, but let me say this is obviously a superbly written and performed bit.
Ha-ha, that’s a funny observation!
One of the beaker people has let himself go.
Mark Kermode is looking well.
Tanita tikaram is making a comeback
No he's not, hes let himself go
Ken Loach is writing this up even as we speak.
roy chubby brown has cleaned up his act, but he has let himself go
great timing and thought into his routine....this is one of the best of them.....
Louis van Gaal has let himself go.
Stewart Lee's army
Stewart Lee's army
Scooby Doo has let himself go.
His rants always make me laugh my actual head off, and he puts me to sleep every night (I listen to him when I go to bed)
Stew could use that as a tagline for his next tour. "The stand up who puts you to sleep every night."
@@jazzzzdude very specific lol
@@jazzzzdude He could do that, but he chooses not to.
Bill Haley's let himself go
Quality. "They're running rings round you".
11:15 genius
I recently found the actual Scooby-Doo Zombie Island when sorting through some old DVs I had. Might give it a watch now, judging by the fact I now happen to have a lot of free time, and I'll stay on the look out for jungle canyon rope bridges.
If i recall correctly, he's amalgamating two episodes, one about zombies and one about jungle canyons, etc... hopefully you can find that one, too 😎
He used to be an Eskimo in the 80's. He's done well.
Mr. Lee ascended to a higher plane of comedy.
The botched restoration of The Ecce Homo painting has let itself go.
Lee attracts a better class of troll.
Jungle island canyon bridges have let themselves go
Stewart Lee transcends comedy
Remember the Jungle Canyon Rope Bridge Maintenance Union strikes, in the 80s, under Thatcher? Harrowing times.
This is highly accurate and insightful to be fair. Does anyone remember when life wasn't such a a fucking chore and your job was there the next day and the week after that and it was likely to be there next year?
Yeah, until I lost my job in 2000, under THATCHER.
Same thing happened to my Dad, in 1978, under THATCHER.
@@Myndir Was he the chair of the book cover awards panel?
Boris Yeltsin has let himself go.
my black imaginary wife likes jungle canyon rope bridges
Is she in oil?
The1930s German battlecruiser 'Admiral Graf Spee' has let itself go.
Michael Gove has let himself go...
Stewart Lee use to be so strict on himself he never took a holiday. Saw him in the south of France a few months ago, he’d let himself go.
I saw Stewart Lee at the gym recently lying in a crumpled, disheveled heap under the pull-up bar. Apparently he had let himself go...
Did he look fat and depressed though?
Interestingly, TfL also toyed with the idea of Jungle Canyon Rope Bridges in the 60s as a more efficient and alternate means to travel between central and west London. The project was scrapped soon after it was pitched having been blocked by the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council, who didn't want such a working class mode of transport to cut straight through their upper class neighborhoods.
Beaker from the muppets has let himself go.
"Did she fuck! They're always broken aren't they!?" dying.