@@Xythantiops You’re not overly familiar with his ouvre though are you? You missed the reference and commented on it as though it was a criticism. You should check out lees later work. He’s easily one of the best stand ups ever. In the top 41 anyway.
@@benhall2235 No you are correct. Im not familiar with his comedy at all, as he is so obscure and not heavily promoted. But I am sure if he did have a high profile, for example if he were to be given regular opinion pieces in a national newspaper and have his books on prominent display for sale in branches of WH Smiths at Airports, or piled up in the reduced section of soon to be going out of business CD/DVD/Book establishments in London, then, I would still not have the highly developed wit to understand his humour, which is in no way similar at all to the Russell Brand formula of `famous bloke standing on a stage talking and referring to stuff he had said a few minutes earlier.` (thereby making it cleverer and thought out).But I am a highly conditioned white working class male and my entire day consists of aggressively walking around my flat, alone, talking to myself. A little bit like Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast, but less fit. Basically an unemployed Phil Mitchell. But you already knew that didn't you..
It will remain. It will be all that is left of him. As this is even now his most pure performance, so that is the most pure revelation of his ultimate humanity. He should be proud.
@@RossMcGovern100 I'd like to think his demise will be accompanied by the songs of angels, singing "Shit-haired cunt from the 90s" over and over again to beautiful harp music. That's how I'll remember him anyway.
Not sure where Richard Herring was during this segment, but I'm guessing he's not able to adapt to this type of free-form comedy, so was probably just looking on from the wings, with a mixture of envy and contempt.
I think your confusion here can be easily explained once you consider the fact that a photograph is a visual representation of a moment in time. Now the notes being played at any given moment of time in the photo are represented by two seperate probability distributions. I think what has happened is, by mere fluke, the photographer has managed to capture a more unlikely event from the aforementioned distribution describing the moment in time that corresponds to a part of the combined probability curve that would represent a value of close to zero (very unlikely).
@@charlespell7762 I respect your logic. But for the kitten to play the treble part and the dog to play the bass line would be nigh-on impossible given their relative physical positioning. Yes, what you say could be correct but it would be unprofessional at best, musically incompetent at worst.
This is ridiculous, animals can't even interpret the sounds of music into any from, free or structured, at best they may hear it as some sort of distress call. So taking that into account it seems highly unlikely that a dog and a cat would be able to operate under any recognised jazz format. Further than that, they wouldn't be able to work within this interspecies human based band format let alone sack a band member. It's just fantastical.
Not only that, but a dog and a kitten, being members of two completely disparate species, clearly wouldn't be able to produce offspring of any kind. And the idea of there being a half-dog, half-worm creature is absurd for the same reason, though even more so, as the genetic disparity is even more apparent here.
I will have you know that my beloved Patterdale terrier Bryn was a great singer. In his black coat and white shirt and socks he was a dapper crooner, particularly drawn to Sinatra songs, which he would sing with gusto; his favourite was You Make Me Feel So Young.
Actually dogs can hear music sorry, they aren't sure what it's meant to be exactly. But it has been shown that certain music is relaxing to them, some even like to fall asleep on the couch while the TV is going (they are very similar to people). Sorry if you can't accept that, I am not saying a dog can reproduce music as not even a 4 year old human can't usually produce anything that sounds deliberate. But they certainly can hear and are affected by it and not stressed by it, sorry. Just the same as in babies certain melodies will relax them, even though they can't even talk yet and probably don't even understand what music is meant to be.
How did anyone get anything done with him around? I'd just be staring at him in a stupor, dribbling on myself in a corner.. like I am now. He had no business being that beautiful, it wasn't fair to anyone involved! He's still gorgeous now but thank god he's knocked those edges off. That was just dangerous.
In those days they had to film everything in a mirror because the old TV cameras were a bit soul grabby and insurance had just stopped covering that kind of thing.
Ironic how I can have these conversations in my head at odd times and only get odd looks from fellow shoppers whereas this chap is getting paid and is receiving applause for copying me.
OK I've got what this reminds me of... it's the Top Gear thing, where years, nay decades later Lee picks apart the sicko relations in that trio. It's the laugh... that's the same laugh recycled years later as Richard Hammond the sycophantic doormat who's not sure whether it's funny to laugh at blind people... it works both ways, kitten or Hammond, all good.
It reminds me of the coffee shop stamp card bit, but that was a much funnier and more well-developed routine. This is like him still trying to work out how to do a bit like that
You can see the first inklings of what he would become (i.e., one of the best standup comics ever), but he was still too young and good looking to pull it off yet.
Love Stewart, and to be fair, he has cited Kevin McAleer as a major influence, but just so you know, here is the original: m.th-cam.com/video/9FMjCB5-xw8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the link! Watching McAleer has given me further proof of Stewart's immense brilliance and intelligence - supposing that was 'the original', he improves so much on it (e.g., by adding the classical training vs jazz improv bit)
Ricky is a very unoriginal comic tbf. I don't dislike him to any extent, actually quite like him, but yeah he's certainly not very original in his creations.
Doesn't look like he would've had many problems with the ladies when he was younger. He still had the same kind of humour but it has definitely improved.
I'm not sure if any of this is true because I've got a cat and two dogs and they show no signs of musical ability. And they certainly never use foul language... well not often anyway.
stewart lee obiously doesn't know anything about pianos. the low notes on the piano are on the left and high ones on the right so actually it is the kitten who would be playing the bass melody not the dog
The comments for this content provision used to be quite something, but they seem to have let themselves go. Somewhat. I wonder how long it takes for the wry, twisted lip half-grin to wear off?
I saw Stewart Lee in this video, he looked thin and content, and thin.
7 people got that ;)
Content provider isn’t he.
Stewart Lee's let himself go.
He was not eating a pie
@@thepaulbradley currently 150 liked it
Stewart Lee's looking well.
This was obviously before he let himself go.
He looks like a younger version of Stewart Lee.
The kitten has let itself go.
Ps. Not a joke,
@@elicohen6348 indeed
@@elicohen6348 Ps. indeed
Well, he's done saying that sentence. I wonder what sentence he'll say next
Its pretty bad. Almost on a par with Russell Brands `comedy`
@@Xythantiops You’re not overly familiar with his ouvre though are you? You missed the reference and commented on it as though it was a criticism. You should check out lees later work. He’s easily one of the best stand ups ever. In the top 41 anyway.
@@benhall2235 No you are correct. Im not familiar with his comedy at all, as he is so obscure and not heavily promoted. But I am sure if he did have a high profile, for example if he were to be given regular opinion pieces in a national newspaper and have his books on prominent display for sale in branches of WH Smiths at Airports, or piled up in the reduced section of soon to be going out of business CD/DVD/Book establishments in London, then, I would still not have the highly developed wit to understand his humour, which is in no way similar at all to the Russell Brand formula of `famous bloke standing on a stage talking and referring to stuff he had said a few minutes earlier.` (thereby making it cleverer and thought out).But I am a highly conditioned white working class male and my entire day consists of aggressively walking around my flat, alone, talking to myself. A little bit like Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast, but less fit. Basically an unemployed Phil Mitchell. But you already knew that didn't you..
@@Xythantiops haha very good
@@Xythantiops 👏👏👏
I preferred when Joe Pasquale told it.
word for word?
Funnily enough the format of this bit always reminded me Kevin McAleer's (who Lee is a big fan if) bit with the photo of the owls
Oh crud. I feel the massive pull of the Stewart Lee k hole pulling me in again!
Ian Ketterman
Stewart Lee went back in time and un-let himself go.
So funny to see younger performances.
His delivery has got so much better over the years
I would certainly hope so. It can't get much worse
and so has his Showaddywaddy impersonations.
I honestly think he's got worse
@thephoenixsystem6765: Wrong. You just need to raise your game.
Aww, vhs tape ripple. Makes you nostalgic for those days, doesn't it?
Putting selotape over the hole and trying to write on the label that already had 30 different film titles crossed out
I feel like the fuzzy VHS corruption at the end really makes this.
A little artifact that places the routine in its proper historical context.
This sketch would not have passed post-Saville.
@DnB and Psy Production This was four years ago. I don't remember.
@@thumper8684 Can I get in on this inter-decade conversation?
I love Stewart Lee, but I also kind of enjoyed watching himself hit himself in the face at 0.24 and then just brazen it out :)
Yes i also enjoyed that. Stews too cool for school.
Sums up his whole act :)
It will remain. It will be all that is left of him. As this is even now his most pure performance, so that is the most pure revelation of his ultimate humanity. He should be proud.
@@RossMcGovern100 I'd like to think his demise will be accompanied by the songs of angels, singing "Shit-haired cunt from the 90s" over and over again to beautiful harp music.
That's how I'll remember him anyway.
@@ryans756 If you have dirt to dish, DISH THE DIRT!
Not sure where Richard Herring was during this segment, but I'm guessing he's not able to adapt to this type of free-form comedy, so was probably just looking on from the wings, with a mixture of envy and contempt.
He was at the bar getting a drink mate.
OK... thank you for your insight...
Did Stewart Lee then cover him up with a bit of paper?
@@olaf7441 No he wasn't he was bullying Peter Baynham in the toilets.
Oh I get it. Like the kitten on top of the piano!
Oh. Did I ruin it?
This may be the greatest five minutes of stand-up I’ve seen yet.
You need to stay in more.
Surely the kitten on the keyboard is playing the bass melody.
I think your confusion here can be easily explained once you consider the fact that a photograph is a visual representation of a moment in time. Now the notes being played at any given moment of time in the photo are represented by two seperate probability distributions. I think what has happened is, by mere fluke, the photographer has managed to capture a more unlikely event from the aforementioned distribution describing the moment in time that corresponds to a part of the combined probability curve that would represent a value of close to zero (very unlikely).
@@charlespell7762 I respect your logic. But for the kitten to play the treble part and the dog to play the bass line would be nigh-on impossible given their relative physical positioning. Yes, what you say could be correct but it would be unprofessional at best, musically incompetent at worst.
It's good seeing how Mark Kermode honed his visual narrative analytical skills.
It's Tanita Tikaram.
Stewart's become substantially funnier since this.
Yes I was thinking just that very thought .... he's really honed his craft now.
@@markharrison9021 ...and let himself go
Substantially fatter.
I actually think this is better than his later work.
This is my favourite shaggy dog routine
This is ridiculous, animals can't even interpret the sounds of music into any from, free or structured, at best they may hear it as some sort of distress call. So taking that into account it seems highly unlikely that a dog and a cat would be able to operate under any recognised jazz format. Further than that, they wouldn't be able to work within this interspecies human based band format let alone sack a band member. It's just fantastical.
Not only that, but a dog and a kitten, being members of two completely disparate species, clearly wouldn't be able to produce offspring of any kind. And the idea of there being a half-dog, half-worm creature is absurd for the same reason, though even more so, as the genetic disparity is even more apparent here.
I will have you know that my beloved Patterdale terrier Bryn was a great singer. In his black coat and white shirt and socks he was a dapper crooner, particularly drawn to Sinatra songs, which he would sing with gusto; his favourite was You Make Me Feel So Young.
Actually dogs can hear music sorry, they aren't sure what it's meant to be exactly. But it has been shown that certain music is relaxing to them, some even like to fall asleep on the couch while the TV is going (they are very similar to people).
Sorry if you can't accept that, I am not saying a dog can reproduce music as not even a 4 year old human can't usually produce anything that sounds deliberate. But they certainly can hear and are affected by it and not stressed by it, sorry. Just the same as in babies certain melodies will relax them, even though they can't even talk yet and probably don't even understand what music is meant to be.
I will refer you to Werner Hertzogs acclaimed documentary 'the aristocats'
Do you mean Werner Herzog?
Always loved this bit of the video - and it's very much a portent of Stew's act from 2005 onwards...
The sixth prototype of the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber has let itself go
Terry Christian looked well under Thatcher despite the rickety canyon rope bridges.
That Eskimo from the '90s has let himself go.
Glad to see he's stopped letting himself go.
How did anyone get anything done with him around? I'd just be staring at him in a stupor, dribbling on myself in a corner.. like I am now. He had no business being that beautiful, it wasn't fair to anyone involved! He's still gorgeous now but thank god he's knocked those edges off. That was just dangerous.
have you ever stood in his garden holding a carrier bag ? only asking.
It's a fucking gorgeous dog for sure.
Holy fuck that man was beautiful.
he said egg, like a birds egg
This is the kind of comedy that Claude Bourgelat would enjoy.
Morrisey's looking well!
The bosnian-serb warlord Ratko Mladić has let himself go.
You’d think Stewart Lee would have been more accurate about where the bass melody and “treble” melody would be played. 😅
In those days they had to film everything in a mirror because the old TV cameras were a bit soul grabby and insurance had just stopped covering that kind of thing.
Desmond Tutu has let himself go.
Ironic how I can have these conversations in my head at odd times and only get odd looks from fellow shoppers whereas this chap is getting paid and is receiving applause for copying me.
Have you considered suing?
I'm sure the royalties are pending a mild clerical error.
Mark Lamarr hair from the 90s is looking well.
I have nothing better to say than what I just watched
The George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky has really let itself go.
Classic. Marc Lamar was much funnier here before he joined the Vic and Bob mind the Buzzcocks as the straight man.
a tribute to the cuban heel atop his head
Lamar has let himself go
You dolt, that’s Terry Christian.
OK I've got what this reminds me of... it's the Top Gear thing, where years, nay decades later Lee picks apart the sicko relations in that trio. It's the laugh... that's the same laugh recycled years later as Richard Hammond the sycophantic doormat who's not sure whether it's funny to laugh at blind people... it works both ways, kitten or Hammond, all good.
Only difference being Richard "The Hamster" Hammond isn't a real hamster
It reminds me of the coffee shop stamp card bit, but that was a much funnier and more well-developed routine. This is like him still trying to work out how to do a bit like that
Before Stewart Lee became Stewart Lee.
The T1000 has let himself go...
You can see the first inklings of what he would become (i.e., one of the best standup comics ever), but he was still too young and good looking to pull it off yet.
I like the fact he didn't choose a popular current (for the time) song
My kitten absolutely hates jazz.
Wow, Terry Christian has let himself go.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Stewart Lee gets younger and younger as the years go by!
He let himself go
I just noticed that when I watched the vid with all the negative comments about him my favourite being the eskimo face from the 90's one :)
Adjusting Achordingly. Hahahahaha very good
Samuel Woods oh wow I hadn’t even noticed that pun my god
also the letter A - as in the key of A
Looks alot like Mark Lamarr here.
The original Mark Fowler from Eastenders has let himself go...
Masstransit2 🤣
That Eskimo from the 90s has let himself go
This is such a heartbreaking routine
Herring..."i been to the bar, i don't know what you've been doing... you were great"
KD Lang’s tidied himself up.
Stray cats drummer is looking well
Stewart Lee before he'd been at the cheese.
That is my favourite one
Love Stewart, and to be fair, he has cited Kevin McAleer as a major influence, but just so you know, here is the original: m.th-cam.com/video/9FMjCB5-xw8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the link! Watching McAleer has given me further proof of Stewart's immense brilliance and intelligence - supposing that was 'the original', he improves so much on it (e.g., by adding the classical training vs jazz improv bit)
Reminiscent of Kevin McAleer’s Owl routine.
Stewart Lee at 12 - what a genius he was...mind you - he's let himself go.
Seems like Ricky Gervais stole a lot of this for his Noah's Ark story book bit. A lot of similarities.
Ricky is a very unoriginal comic tbf. I don't dislike him to any extent, actually quite like him, but yeah he's certainly not very original in his creations.
Both great comedians.
And Ricky Gervais got it off Joe Pasquale
And Joe Pasquali definitely thought of it as his mind is a well oiled machine that is thinking up original jokes all the time 😜 @@BigyetiTechnologies
Doesn't look like he would've had many problems with the ladies when he was younger. He still had the same kind of humour but it has definitely improved.
This must be satire.
well it's got talking animals
Good work Santarii, go straight to Oxford
Yes, it's very satiresome indeed.
If he was Scottish, it would be saltire.
@@johndaartist5499 greeetings from London
i refer the honourable gentleman to some of the earlier comments (check the negative internet comments video)
what show is this from? Is the rest of it on youtube?
He has definatly got better with age
Like a pear cider, made from 100% pears?
He's right, you don't see postcards of London like that these days, unless it's about the Isle of Dogs.
Dogs?!
Terry Christian looks like he's been working out.
The dogs playing the treble and the cat the bass so kinda knocks holes in his theory.
left-handed piano
Thank feck he got better at being Britain's 41st best stand up.
I don’t remember Terry Christian ever being that funny.
Gripper Stebson has let himself go...
+ZaPpaul haha! spot on.
Roland Gift does an abstract stand-up piece.
I'm not sure if any of this is true because I've got a cat and two dogs and they show no signs of musical ability.
And they certainly never use foul language... well not often anyway.
stewart lee obiously doesn't know anything about pianos. the low notes on the piano are on the left and high ones on the right so actually it is the kitten who would be playing the bass melody not the dog
what a thrilling comment
+sibionic sorry I was just really pissed off at the time haha
You obviously don't know anything about apostraphes.
Learning It Quietly Nope not really. English was never really my thing.
However, she can spell 'apostrophes' correctly.
Genius.
Mark Lamarr's slightly more amusing than I remember him, and looking well.
Thomas Turgoose has let himself go.
Now you're being nasty! Thomas Turdgoose is hideously deformed.
They're stuffed. So is London.
It's a reference to a guy Stewart Lee quoted.
What year was this recorded? Late 90s?
95-96. A series called Fist of Fun.
General Ratko Mladić hasn't let himself go here.
Wow Shakin’ Stevens has really let himself go.
Stewart Lee looks like an uncrumpled Morrissey here.
Very much like a Kevin McAleer bit.
Richard herring's pint has let itself go.
David Bowie as the Thin White Duke has let himself go.
lol this is a great skit imo
I thought Kim Jong Ill was dead!
I just noticed it was you, Mr Willmott…
6:01 How does Allen change from a Half Dog Half Kitten to Half Dog Half Worm? Is no one going to mention it???
Ask his Neighbours.
the kitten is clearly playing the lower notes i mean i like Stewart lee but come on! i wonder what's on channel 4?
The comments for this content provision used to be quite something, but they seem to have let themselves go. Somewhat. I wonder how long it takes for the wry, twisted lip half-grin to wear off?
I suppose then that I must be talking to myself. For posterity.
4:17 Richard 'The Hamster' Hammond
Quack quack quack quack quack quack go.
Stewart lee used to not let himself go.
This is what Mark Lamarr could have been had he not allowed Chris Moyles to eat away at his rational
Stewart Lee ... the thinking man's prop comedian. @90s amphetamine communist era
He definitely doesn’t have an Eskimo face from the nineties in this set.
young, thin Stewart Lee has let himself go
ah...i hope he deliberately got the kitten playing melody in the treble wrong...as its more in the bass area...anyways
Fuck, he was a looker.
The kitten is brian jones