I just re-listened to the commentary on the season 1 dvd extras of Comedy Vehicle and he says he did this bit in Australia for 30 minutes from behind a curtain with only his feet showing.
His Braveheart skit to a Glasgow crowd though, and im glaswegian, was not only the bravest thing he's done, it was up there with the funniest. lost on the rangers fans lol ;-)
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not long after this clip he worked for 14 months for a well known pizza chain, taking pizzas in a van to customers who had ordered by phone; that experience has stood him in good stead ever since.
Saw him do this bit last week at the Bloomsbury Theatre where he was headlining a charity night of stand ups. He turned it into one of his dadaist pieces at the end. Too good for the likes of us.
I wonder if the evangelist really called at Stewart Lee's house ? Perhaps he made the story up or maybe it really did happen and Stewart gave it to him straight like a pear cider that's made from 100% pears.
Let himself go? He's 50 years old. He's just got older. Just like you, man. Old and fat. .... And bald. How old are you? A poorly aged 40 years old? Lee's doing a lot better than you.
I am in fact 50 of her majesty's finest years old in august. Now you communists wouldnt know what a good comedian was even if it was deconstructed and put back together on a little snowflake plate for you with a government health warning.
@@newbarker523 Are you serious? In a gag where the set up is 'Jesus is the answer' and all the other questions had Jesus as an answer, you were wondering what the word before lizard was? ...Wow... As Stewart Lee said 'surely it's 9bvious what they're called by now!'
I saw Stuart Lee a few years ago in deep conversation with his younger self, telling his 22 year old self one of his really long burn jokes, you know the ones, like the jungle canyon rope bridge . Anyway. The younger Stuart was obviously trying to disengage. He hadn't figured out the comedy style that he was so famous for in later years. The younger Stuart Lee was making excuses to get home, but the older one kept telling him to stay because he hadn't finished the joke. It went on for ages. But eventually Stuart Lee, let himself go.
I know he's matured a lot and his comedy's in the last few years is seen as his "best", but early 90's Stewart Lee is hands down my favourite comedian. Bar none. And I said "...no"
People genuinely do say-- "aargh, well he does" as if that's a clincher in terms of convincing someone that God exists.... Which is very odd and strange when you think about it...
I'm fairly certain this would have been filmed after he an Herring had their own series on the BBC, seems a little odd to suggest it was before he was famous. ...I mean what do you want, the moon on a stick?
No, the question is "which character in the Coen /brothers' film, The Big Lebowski threatens to remove Walter Sobchak's firearm from his possession and insert it in his rectum?"
That's what a lot of comedians do. Seeing what works; throwing out the crap; keeping the good stuff, with it often changing a little due to revision and the nature of it being done in a live setting with no tele-prompter or flash-cards.
Yes, hence the mentions of bands like Jesus and Mary Chain and Jesus Lizard etc...not exactly topical, but that just made it funnier. Not enough Stew that night sadly and rather too much Ray Peacock...still, a good night over all.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
he will do this 'bit' again when i next see him somewhere in the future i expect and i will not find it funny but the time after that when i see him and he does it it might be . . . i've not done any research
Funnily enough, he doesn’t even do that in this clip. If you watch again, you’ll see he only uses it as per normal usage, i.e. to indicate a question. Or have I missed one?
The owner of the only sweet shop in the small northern Polish village of Bludzie Wielkie has eaten too many of his retail items and now looks fat and sweaty.
Yes lifes got a wearing effect on people. Some people. Dont think he is depressed as he isnt no different. Not got the mid 30s sprint in his srep but depressed? No. Honest. To the point. If can take a minute to tell you the joke till gets uncomfortable. But depressed. Should look round at the way things are and have that 20s spring in it eh?
“That went on for two hours” these days he would literally demonstrate this these days
I just re-listened to the commentary on the season 1 dvd extras of Comedy Vehicle and he says he did this bit in Australia for 30 minutes from behind a curtain with only his feet showing.
@@Dinckelburg Was he wearing "_____ sandals"?
@@LuDux Christ-Creepers
When did this come in?
Are you saying that he would literally demonstrate that, these days?
Saw him in Glasgow two nights ago and he did this routine to open the show! Theatre was going wild for it.
His Braveheart skit to a Glasgow crowd though, and im glaswegian, was not only the bravest thing he's done, it was up there with the funniest. lost on the rangers fans lol ;-)
He did this routine in Wolverhampton last weekend
Yeah. They love it don't they?
He did this routine whilst waiting for his order in McDonalds last Tuesday , had us all in stitches !
9:50 AM 3 years ago - Just seen Stewart Lee copying his routine from the 90’s, he looks fat and depressed and fat
He doesn't look fat or depressed.
It comes with age.
He hadn't let himself go yet.
@@kinhamid9665 nor had morrissey
@@mj.l that's defo true, people keep saying he's like mozzer but slightly less hair..
I dunno, he doesn't induce vomiting for me the way Mr Morrissey does
My brush with religion ended when I was sacked from my job sweeping the cathedral.
Nice. You contributed a pun. And it gives relief among all the tardy comments here. Cheers
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going to use that one in real ...thanks
" I would be pleased but now I'm worried about dementia and identity theft
" Badaboom! mizofan :-)
His delivery has definitely gotten better with age.
Where did I say unpolished? He does essentially the same joke in his TV show, and in my opinion it's done a lot better.
not long after this clip he worked for 14 months for a well known pizza chain, taking pizzas in a van to customers who had ordered by phone; that experience has stood him in good stead ever since.
thank you Mister F for letting us know he improved some decades in
Yes. That's usually the case.
@Andy Moran. Gotten is a word...
He talks a lot slower now. That segment would now be an hour of content for him.
Its unfortunate he had to carry on, otherwise he could've got ten minutes out of the "no you were" bit.
@@AzelfandQuilava Well, maybe for the front... but the balcony would require a full explanation.
The hair. Love it.
He was always funny, even though he improved I'd have still went to see this.
Saw him do this bit last week at the Bloomsbury Theatre where he was headlining a charity night of stand ups.
He turned it into one of his dadaist pieces at the end. Too good for the likes of us.
Thanks Stewart 🤗
He did this routine at a London charity event about 6 years ago. Still funny.
The early days of a comedy genius
Is the question - "are you a sardine?"
in 9 years, this deserves much more love x
I wonder if the evangelist really called at Stewart Lee's house ?
Perhaps he made the story up or maybe it really did happen
and Stewart gave it to him straight like a pear cider that's made
from 100% pears.
That would be Perry then, made from Perry Pears, not the apple cider given a pear flavour 🙂
That was 0% disappointment
You can't make a drink out of a feeling
He did this routine at last year's Hop Farm Festival and it was fantastic
He was a handsome devil.
still is
@@crissieroserose No, no. The consensus is definitely that he has let himself go.
If Stewart has taught us one thing it's to bow to the consensus
I see what you done there
Pretty.
If Jesus is the answer, Stewart Lee is the question.
So he is a Christian.
If Stewart Lee is the answer surely the question is which 80s Eskimo faced intellectual comedian from Balham has let themselves go?
That'd be you, mate.
Thanks
Let himself go? He's 50 years old. He's just got older. Just like you, man. Old and fat.
.... And bald.
How old are you? A poorly aged 40 years old? Lee's doing a lot better than you.
I am in fact 50 of her majesty's finest years old in august. Now you communists wouldnt know what a good comedian was even if it was deconstructed and put back together on a little snowflake plate for you with a government health warning.
Why do old guys like you always go on about liberals, communists and snowflakes? LOL.
Brilliant he mentioned the Jesus lizard. Great band.
I've got the split single they did with Nirvana. Tis a rarity!
Ahh! I wondered what the word before lizard was!! Thanks.
@@newbarker523 Are you serious? In a gag where the set up is 'Jesus is the answer' and all the other questions had Jesus as an answer, you were wondering what the word before lizard was?
...Wow...
As Stewart Lee said 'surely it's 9bvious what they're called by now!'
@@seajay632 It was my attempt at comedy. I'll get my coat... :)
Anyone notice he's got his hand mostly in the sort of position one's hand would be in to hold a microphone, but he isn't holding one?
Magical
Before all those people let themselves go.
I saw Stuart Lee a few years ago in deep conversation with his younger self, telling his 22 year old self one of his really long burn jokes, you know the ones, like the jungle canyon rope bridge . Anyway. The younger Stuart was obviously trying to disengage. He hadn't figured out the comedy style that he was so famous for in later years. The younger Stuart Lee was making excuses to get home, but the older one kept telling him to stay because he hadn't finished the joke. It went on for ages. But eventually Stuart Lee, let himself go.
His style of repetitiveness to slowly build or draw out the joke hasn't changed much since then.
If it aint broke don't fix it.
I know he's matured a lot and his comedy's in the last few years is seen as his "best", but early 90's Stewart Lee is hands down my favourite comedian. Bar none.
And I said "...no"
People genuinely do say-- "aargh, well he does" as if that's a clincher in terms of convincing someone that God exists.... Which is very odd and strange when you think about it...
Fun to see how this presages the arc of his evolving style.
I was there. I thought I'd heard this routine before.
I'm fairly certain this would have been filmed after he an Herring had their own series on the BBC, seems a little odd to suggest it was before he was famous.
...I mean what do you want, the moon on a stick?
Falkor, the Luck Dragon from "The Never-Ending Story", has let himself go.
No, the question is "which character in the Coen /brothers' film, The Big Lebowski threatens to remove Walter Sobchak's firearm from his possession and insert it in his rectum?"
No the question was: Which one of Mary's son's was born out of wedlock?
No the question was who does nobody fuck with.. The ..
i didn't know Terry Christian did stand up!
How can he sell the same joke 20 years later and still make it work?
Well the subject matter has been arround for 2000 years and still doesn't quite work
Gabor- thats easy, nobody went to see him for 15 of those years, so he didnt need to keep reinventing it, nor did it get old
That's what a lot of comedians do. Seeing what works; throwing out the crap; keeping the good stuff, with it often changing a little due to revision and the nature of it being done in a live setting with no tele-prompter or flash-cards.
The world is ready for this bumper sticker: My boss is a Mexican carpenter.
He's revamped some of this stuff for the most recent tour
You know those kids at primary school who said to ya "Read any Ouspensky?".
S.L. was so beautiful back then ❣
A young comedy genius in the making here like a pear cider made from ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Yes, hence the mentions of bands like Jesus and Mary Chain and Jesus Lizard etc...not exactly topical, but that just made it funnier.
Not enough Stew that night sadly and rather too much Ray Peacock...still, a good night over all.
Aw, bless... This was filmed before he let himself go, right?
weird that when he says the 25th december theres a big 25 behind him
Proof of God if you ever needed it.
I'm here mostly for the Jesus Lizard reference.
He did this bit last month but joked that none of the cultural references have been changed so the joke was out of date.
The compulsion to repetition in Autism Spectrum Disorder is not bound by the laws of time.
I've got a feeling he'lll let himself go !!!
Aren't The Jesus Lizard from Austin, Texas and predominantly the 90s though?
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Like wolfy's 7 year old compositions.Early days,but great one's ahead.
"No, it isn't that, guess again!"
"Is it: in whose gaping anus did I vomit?"
"And did he clear it up using the cat's feet towel?"
I love The Blank Lizard
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has let herself go
Never changed at all. Really exact same now. More old think more angry but no exact same.
Is the question "What is the British alternative rock band blank Jones?"
alternative-ish...
Is it..?
He could do this material now. It would take ten minutes but it would somehow be funnier anyway.
You can't argue with that kind of logic
Well, you can prove anything you want with facts.
The rolloping trolloping sauce bottle!
2:18!
It's political correctness gone mad
Morrisey is looking well!
The young pop sensation Claire Crogan hadn’t let herself go yet
he does
Mark lamarr has found Jesus!
Nought BC? Don't you mean AD.?
Pet Gladioli looks young and well and young.
I prefer his delivery later in life.
He looks about 15 here?! :D
which j am i? :)
I can’t believe Terry Christian used to scrub up that well.
And he went on to become extremely funny. Who knew?
Tony from East 17 has let himself go..
I think that some of these comments are deliberately sarcastic - aren't they?
Stewart Lee hasn’t let himself go yet.
Ah... but he has.
Stephen Gatley has let himself go?
This is before he let himself go.
he will do this 'bit' again when i next see him somewhere in the future i expect and i will not find it funny but the time after that when i see him and he does it it might be . . . i've not done any research
He's looking like 90's Leo hard
Present day Terry Christian's looking well.
@makeminea99 its 20 years old and so
I think the best career choice he’s ever made was to stop ending his sentences with and upwards inflection.
Funnily enough, he doesn’t even do that in this clip. If you watch again, you’ll see he only uses it as per normal usage, i.e. to indicate a question. Or have I missed one?
Immaculate conception has let himself go
Harry Styles has let himself go
The owner of the only sweet shop in the small northern Polish village of Bludzie Wielkie has eaten too many of his retail items and now looks fat and sweaty.
Will Young has let himself go
Morrissey's looking well
When he was a bit of a babe.
Time hasn't been kind to him
He's got better with age. He couldnt have got much worse.😂🤣 Is it just me or has he let himself go?
He needed to reach his final form first
Jesus has really let himself go.
Serbian warlord Ratko Mladic is looking good.
r/thathappened
r/whoosh r/ihavereddit
Jesus wasn't born in 0 BC.
k
Yes lifes got a wearing effect on people. Some people. Dont think he is depressed as he isnt no different. Not got the mid 30s sprint in his srep but depressed? No. Honest. To the point. If can take a minute to tell you the joke till gets uncomfortable. But depressed. Should look round at the way things are and have that 20s spring in it eh?
He got a lot funnier with age.
Why does early Stew move his hands like a crap politician
He hadn't let himself go here ..
Matt Damon has let himself go.
He was funnier then, but markedly less handsome. (edit: I added the 'markedly' about 30 minutes later, after listening to some JAMC)
These days if you make a joke about Jesus, you’ll be thrown in jail.
Ah, Stu........... Ah....