Yeah, I used to watch Des and Mel with my Mum and I would sit on her knee laughing really loudly at Des and his hilarious jokes, my Mum stroking my hair and feeding me my lunch, taking me to the toilet in the ad breaks. 28 years old I was. Ah ha.
It takes a lot of courage to do stand up in a small room. More courage than a fireman or someone fighting in a war. That's what real comics are made of.
No, you're not supposed to laugh. You're supposed to agree the fuck out of it to show how clever you are and then explain it to a woman Btw your comment is half way to being 28 years old ah
I can't believe Stewart Lee ever sat talking to Des & Mel. Is this from some parallel universe, coz this is surreal. Tell me this is some kind of video trickery? 😉🤔
I thought you'd be taller .. Well at least I'm funny .. Sardine Boy 😂 Im viewing from stewart lees random clips .. Maybe he'll see im defo his no 1 fan before i see him again at Manchester Lowry in February 2025 ..
Hah! Des O'Connor's entry into the "World's Least Sincere Statement" Award: "He's touring... on the Isle of Skye! Oh, I must check him out on that one."
Hmmm, where you see harmless, hapless coincidence, I see territorial negging. Stewart Lee takes the high road with weary dismissal but I’d love to know how his imagination retorted to “…..I thought you’d be taller…”
@Booshie321 Completely agree. It's the contrast off Lee's intelligence making the stupidity of O'Conner more obvious! It's a bit embarrassing this, like he's wondered into an old peoples' home and is being interviewed by accident!
there are two types of television viewers in this world ones who look out for things to be offended by and ones who look out for things that the above ppl claim to be offended by so they can laugh at them.
I saw a clip about the Braveheart romance with the princess, can't believe he got away with that in Scotland, never mind actually tried it in the first place! Wish I had known how good he was back then.
Is this show still on?! I feel sorry for Des. He's from a different era. I can't imagine Stew ending up like that. Though it is an interesting juxtaposition.
My cousin is an optician, and he used to receive several hundred pounds a day for travelling to Des O'Connor's house and putting his contact lenses in for him. Make of this what you will.
I'm a gyneacologist and I used to go to Mel's house to give her an internal examination once a week. The money I gave her more than covered Des's contact fee.
@sean2mush I agree. The interview was fine. I always hate this 'you claim to like Stewart Lee just to align yourself with cleverness' thing... but reading some of the comments on this video it's like his fans are elevating him to some kind of deity, as if he is constantly analysing his intellectual inferiors who shrivel before his glowing genius. It's just a standard talk show chat. The fact that Des is a bit bumbling is part of his charm. And people, while Lee is bright, he isn't a genius.
Haha while I agree with everything you're saying, English standups do/did have to be just that little bit better to get the crowd on their side! There still is a bit of a national rivalry going on, yeah it's much friendlier, but it's there! I'm half English, half Scottish and have seen the two sides of my family, well, having "issues" with each other shall we say!
1:20 hang on, let me just interrupt you because I wasn't listening, explain it to the people who can't grasp the complicated concept of "an Opera about British Comedians in German" and now try and gain the trail of thought that I stopped you from expressing.
@joannepsi Well, there's little chance of my convincing you via a TH-cam comment, but that's what my cousin told me, and he's not prone to deception (I'm talking about a 40-year-old man with two kids, if that means anything). I can't remember the exact sum involved, but it was pretty generous for a minute's work. Oh God, I admit it: it's all hearsay. I apologise for impugning the honour of Des O'Conner.
Was he trying to tap the 90+ demographic? When I saw the title of this video, I thought this was going to be some kind of composite thing where Stewart had been edited in to someone else's interview or something.
When someone makes fun of the Scottish accent everyone comments on how racist it is, but when someone makes fun of a Welsh accent its just a bit of fun. :(
Wasnt there a really wierd tension between Des and Stewert. Des, i reckon is kind of jealous that Stewert is this intellectually funny comedian and he just tells gags that are cheesy and not really that funny.
@marcporkribs Oh, come on. This is what I'm talking about. Whenever he gets something wrong he's doing it on purpose for comic effect? This guy could involuntarily puke over the microphone and someone out there would hail it as a satirical masterstroke.
... Actually a fun game to play is "spot Stewart Lee using 'fancy' language incorrectly in a slightly cringeworthy (and failed) attempt to sound extra clever". He does it a fair bit, often when he improvises. It wouldn't bother me, but when his routines, and fans, make proclamations about how articulate, sharp and well-read he is, it makes me wince a little. And I think he's great. There's one in this vid for the particularly strict 'grammar Nazi', but there are more blatant ones out there :)
Wow, bit of a shame Mel had to keep doing little laughs where the jokes were, while the audience, bussed in from nursing homes and hospices, were stone cold and silent. Stew doing his best to be mainstream and not weird or obnoxiously middle-class or anything else that might alienate anybody. And he went down pretty crap. So he gave Des a chance to do a couple of anecdotes to keep the audience interested, which was a good idea. Stew knowns his audience, even if it's one that completely ignores him. Can't be blamed. I bet that appearance added 0 to his ticket sales, dunno why he did it. Was this before he left Avalon, and one of them talked him into it?
Answering my own question, yes, he left Avalon around October 2006. Probably that explains it then. His wanting to play the Outer Hebrides might have run into some resistance from some lazy booker who couldn't be arsed to find the phone book for the arse end of nowhere.
Gotta be honest, I find these blandy bland talk shows a bit annoying. Des keeps doing the weirdest segways from one subject to another. Never mind though, Stewart holds his own brilliantly. How clever and articulate that man is!
Stewart Lee, an intelligent and thoughtful man, makes Des O'Connor look like some kind of inferior species. A trully stark contradiction. At least Melanie Sykes keeps some dignity.
Yeah, I used to watch Des and Mel with my Mum and I would sit on her knee laughing really loudly at Des and his hilarious jokes, my Mum stroking my hair and feeding me my lunch, taking me to the toilet in the ad breaks. 28 years old I was. Ah ha.
I'm German so I knew you were 28 at the start of the "joke"...
And then I got off the bus
It takes a lot of courage to do stand up in a small room. More courage than a fireman or someone fighting in a war. That's what real comics are made of.
"I thought you'd be taller, I don't know why!"
"Yeah..."
Lovely stuff!
Good to see the "and then I got off the bus" bit getting a good laugh
i expected des to go "are you a sardine?" for some reason
Wrong O Connor.... But yeah
He's in oil
@@elpistolero9394it wasn't him but he was quick
"He came out, Stew..." Oops, wrong O'Connor.
Rip Des. Your interview with stew was the finest thing both you and he ever did. Well actually just you...
Haha lol
You confounded my expectations and from there the humour arose.
thence*
I wish there were subtitles showing the inner monologue going on in Stewarts` head during this interview!Now THAT would be funny!
No, you're not supposed to laugh. You're supposed to agree the fuck out of it to show how clever you are and then explain it to a woman
Btw your comment is half way to being 28 years old ah
That little raise of the eyebrows at the end from Stewart was just so full of contempt... in a good way :)
"There's no kind of cheeky middle ground which is what many of us in Britain thrive on."
Hahaha!
"I thought you'd be taller."
What?
Interesting stuff about German comedy.
Henning Wehn seems to have crossed the German to English divide very well. But can Stu do it in reverse?!?!
can't see what people are talking about. the interview went fine and i think they all came across well
Stu doesn't have much luck with The O'Connors
I can't believe Stewart Lee ever sat talking to Des & Mel. Is this from some parallel universe, coz this is surreal. Tell me this is some kind of video trickery? 😉🤔
You can see Stew dying inside..
yeah what a greeting
what a pro
"I thought you'd be taller, I don't know why!"
Has Des always sounded like Zippy?...I can't remember.
Spineina Bap lol
They say you play the Isle of Skye twice in your career. It's good to be back.
@greyztone Is the one you spotted the redundancy in the line "from whence the humour derives"?
"And then I got off the bus" line - an old TMWRNJ reference.
Melanie was definitely fancying Stewart in that interview. Lucky guy.
This is like playing free form Croatian jazz to a couple of toddlers and asking them to discuss the innovative lack of structure.
Des O'Connor's let himself go a bit!
I thought you'd be taller ..
Well at least I'm funny ..
Sardine Boy 😂
Im viewing from stewart lees random clips ..
Maybe he'll see im defo his no 1 fan before i see him again at Manchester Lowry in February 2025 ..
Hah! Des O'Connor's entry into the "World's Least Sincere Statement" Award: "He's touring... on the Isle of Skye! Oh, I must check him out on that one."
It never reached the dizzy heights of Terry and Gabby.
'I was watching Des and Mel the other day, and there was this comedian on, and...oh, he was awful...'
ListenToBigFace There were all these words you had to remember. And colours you needed to identify.
wHAT?
But then after about 10 minutes, he scraped his microphone on a bit of old card.....oooh it was marvellous
Give it to me Des, like a........
I wonder if Stewart was forced to do this by his agent?
Des managed to un-intentionally insult him 4 times in the first 20 seconds of speaking to him.....that's some kind of a record.!
Hmmm, where you see harmless, hapless coincidence, I see territorial negging. Stewart Lee takes the high road with weary dismissal but I’d love to know how his imagination retorted to “…..I thought you’d be taller…”
@Booshie321 Completely agree. It's the contrast off Lee's intelligence making the stupidity of O'Conner more obvious! It's a bit embarrassing this, like he's wondered into an old peoples' home and is being interviewed by accident!
Hm, Stew didn't choose his own walking-in music there.
brilliant
Des O'Connor! He come out, Stu, like lightning out of a gun, and he said "Are you a blaspheme....(-er)?"
Wrong O Connor
Mind those felt lions
@@elpistolero9394 I know.
@grahamlive yeah i know its just the way stew describes tom o connor in his stand up perfectly fits this chap
Brilliant
there are two types of television viewers in this world
ones who look out for things to be offended by
and ones who look out for things that the above ppl claim to be offended by so they can laugh at them.
What an odd mix of people. Mel is like Des's carer.
I thought Stu fitted in really well on Des and Mel, a bite like O J Simpsons glove.
At least oj didn't let himself go
I saw a clip about the Braveheart romance with the princess, can't believe he got away with that in Scotland, never mind actually tried it in the first place! Wish I had known how good he was back then.
But then he let himself go
2.06 mel laughs at the fictional joke punch line.
Nice!
@guitarreilly Yeah, I thought you might. :) I get the feeling Stewart was taking the piss a bit in this interview.
Thursday 27th January 2005
@raith1986 its from his stand up in Glasgow.
I wonder if anybody would notice if Des O'Connor developed Alzheimer's.
no he directed and co -wrote alzheimers i believe
Is this show still on?! I feel sorry for Des. He's from a different era. I can't imagine Stew ending up like that. Though it is an interesting juxtaposition.
No he’s dead now
My cousin is an optician, and he used to receive several hundred pounds a day for travelling to Des O'Connor's house and putting his contact lenses in for him. Make of this what you will.
I'm a gyneacologist and I used to go to Mel's house to give her an internal examination once a week. The money I gave her more than covered Des's contact fee.
The show that everybody is calling TWD & Mel
@sean2mush I agree. The interview was fine. I always hate this 'you claim to like Stewart Lee just to align yourself with cleverness' thing... but reading some of the comments on this video it's like his fans are elevating him to some kind of deity, as if he is constantly analysing his intellectual inferiors who shrivel before his glowing genius. It's just a standard talk show chat. The fact that Des is a bit bumbling is part of his charm. And people, while Lee is bright, he isn't a genius.
Why did this even happen?
Lee doesn't want this.
@TheEskimosPantry Indeed. 10 points! :)
@greyztone Of course, the phrase 'from whence the humour derives' is a joke itself as it's deliberately wrong. He used to use it quite a lot.
Haha while I agree with everything you're saying, English standups do/did have to be just that little bit better to get the crowd on their side! There still is a bit of a national rivalry going on, yeah it's much friendlier, but it's there! I'm half English, half Scottish and have seen the two sides of my family, well, having "issues" with each other shall we say!
1:20 hang on, let me just interrupt you because I wasn't listening, explain it to the people who can't grasp the complicated concept of "an Opera about British Comedians in German" and now try and gain the trail of thought that I stopped you from expressing.
@joannepsi Well, there's little chance of my convincing you via a TH-cam comment, but that's what my cousin told me, and he's not prone to deception (I'm talking about a 40-year-old man with two kids, if that means anything). I can't remember the exact sum involved, but it was pretty generous for a minute's work. Oh God, I admit it: it's all hearsay. I apologise for impugning the honour of Des O'Conner.
Was he trying to tap the 90+ demographic?
When I saw the title of this video, I thought this was going to be some kind of composite thing where Stewart had been edited in to someone else's interview or something.
CHEG ON!
Stewart Lee and Des O Connor really are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
I can book him for the Island of Rum if he wants.
When someone makes fun of the Scottish accent everyone comments on how racist it is, but when someone makes fun of a Welsh accent its just a bit of fun. :(
John Conteh has let himself go.
Who's watching this in 2014 because of I'm a celebrity
Rosie Baird no one
@TheReactorSings Yeah right.
2.24, Mel looking a bit smitten.
Yeah, it's either her job, to do that with everyone who comes on the show, or Stew nobly bypassed an opportunity, there...
To be fair, this was before he'd let himself go.
@guitarreilly Wrong O'Connor. :D
Des and Mel and Stue
I like to hope that Mel's seen the "... and then I got off the bus" bit with Rich before and she's laughing at that. But I'm probably wrong.
Wasnt there a really wierd tension between Des and Stewert. Des, i reckon is kind of jealous that Stewert is this intellectually funny comedian and he just tells gags that are cheesy and not really that funny.
@TheWrongBoyfriends you could be him
@marcporkribs Oh, come on. This is what I'm talking about. Whenever he gets something wrong he's doing it on purpose for comic effect? This guy could involuntarily puke over the microphone and someone out there would hail it as a satirical masterstroke.
and then i got off the bus
Keine Ahnung, wovon er redet...
The Des & Mel show was such a bad idea. She always looked uncomfortable around him. Creepy old man.
Des actually sounds a little drunk here.
Yeah that pisses me off.
... Actually a fun game to play is "spot Stewart Lee using 'fancy' language incorrectly in a slightly cringeworthy (and failed) attempt to sound extra clever". He does it a fair bit, often when he improvises. It wouldn't bother me, but when his routines, and fans, make proclamations about how articulate, sharp and well-read he is, it makes me wince a little. And I think he's great. There's one in this vid for the particularly strict 'grammar Nazi', but there are more blatant ones out there :)
Des; grade a master of misses the point
Wow, bit of a shame Mel had to keep doing little laughs where the jokes were, while the audience, bussed in from nursing homes and hospices, were stone cold and silent. Stew doing his best to be mainstream and not weird or obnoxiously middle-class or anything else that might alienate anybody. And he went down pretty crap. So he gave Des a chance to do a couple of anecdotes to keep the audience interested, which was a good idea. Stew knowns his audience, even if it's one that completely ignores him.
Can't be blamed. I bet that appearance added 0 to his ticket sales, dunno why he did it. Was this before he left Avalon, and one of them talked him into it?
Answering my own question, yes, he left Avalon around October 2006. Probably that explains it then. His wanting to play the Outer Hebrides might have run into some resistance from some lazy booker who couldn't be arsed to find the phone book for the arse end of nowhere.
How the fuck is Des O Connor famous?
Cheaz
Gotta be honest, I find these blandy bland talk shows a bit annoying. Des keeps doing the weirdest segways from one subject to another. Never mind though, Stewart holds his own brilliantly. How clever and articulate that man is!
Not sure what she was getting paid for.
Stewart Lee, an intelligent and thoughtful man, makes Des O'Connor look like some kind of inferior species. A trully stark contradiction. At least Melanie Sykes keeps some dignity.
she looked bored as hell. fiddling with objects on the desk tells her story.
Completely unfunny, boring, with terrible clothes and receding hair. And that was just the presenters, ah!
sell out
Stewart Lee is great. Des is obviously a racist! LOL
Brilliant