Several years ago, Malcolm Williamson, the Master of the Queen's Music, explained to reporters how he assessed his countryman's mass appeal: Lloyd Webber's music is "everywhere," he said, "but then so is AIDS."
1:17 So beautifully put. It warms my heart and puts a smile on my face to be reminded that at least one other sentient organism feels that way about musicals. (even if it’s only the character of Stewart Lee as opposed to the man himself)
Jazz nazi. We had a beat poet used to come to open mics, with a spoken word piece called Jazz Nazis, while a drunken pianist, bassist and me on sax 'intererpreted' it. Bloody marvelous.
@@rowanmorrison7022 I presume any woman of 'Stu's' will have to be as brilliant or equal in their width and bredth of certain matters and Its scary to know that luckily Stu has chosen to unleash his genius through the medium he does and hasnt,but quite easily have chosen to transfer his genius and skills to undertaking evil or immoral gain.I dont usually celeb fascinate but Lee is unique so i do wanna know everything about him..so that is a fact i appreciate knowing...thanks man.
One of the few living comedians to understand the hilarious potential of scorn. But you have to pick your targets with care or the joke falls flat. Or that used to be the case. These days, just go to the online paper of your choosing and scroll and stop at random.
Obviously the real evil man is the businessman, in his suit and tie, who leaves his office in the city on a Tuesday evening and meets his wife and children to take them to the west end for a meal and a nice Andrew Lloyd Webber show.
I suspect, like "I was 28 years old" and "moon on a stick", it's one of those lines neither can remember who came up with and both feel free to use. I've certainly seen both use the "I am not saying I am the new Jesus, that is for others to say" line.
and they are two of the most famous British actors alive, that doesn't say much about the play itself (you don't need top stars doing ALW shows for them to be popular)
"Who's the REAL sick man?" I love how Stu still uses old Richard Herring bits, and verse vice I just wish those kids could sort it out, they're both better together...sniff... Where else could one get that unique blend of smug pseudo-intellectualism and faux naive scatology?
Stewart might have something to say about the advertising prior to this clip. I skipped it as soon as possible while shouting offensive swear words at my iPad ... but then adverts telling me how wonderful it is in Saudi Arabia do make me a tad cross.
Isn't Webber the guy, that wrote JCSS? I never heard anything else by him, but even if everything else is total garbage (which is possible), JCSS is still brilliant work.
He wrote cats and phantom of the opera and that but he’s also a bit of a knob like when he took a private jet from nyc to London to vote for benefit cuts
Thing is, Adam Howell, I have fifty five years of 'technical musical knowledge' and am still a performing musician. Andrew Lloyd Webber has no talent at all to my EARS and that's what counts. I hated everything he did because it was trite, two dimensional, and in the case of Evita, squirmingly inappropriate - if he'd read the truth about the Peron regime he'd never have made a sentimental operatta about it. It's easy for an over educated person whose Dad was a classical musical professional and teacher to cobble together some 'music' but there's no heart in it. There's no struggle behind it. It's a pile of shallow, not very innovative bourgeois bullshit served up to dumb sheeple, and Japanese tourists. He would never, ever have got backers if he hadn't been Who he is, if some 'nobody' had written it it would never have seen the light of day. Rice's lyrics are mainly doggerel too by the way.
I'm more of a Sondheim guy myself, but you sound like quite the snob. A little more respect for things that give other people pleasure would not come amiss.
Although I almost completely agree with everything you say, I suspect there is an argument to be made that it's a matter of taste. If one person enjoys his sacharine dirges, then to them he has talent. I too am a musician, but I wouldn't appeal to authority because of it. That said, I do like a good rant myself, and employing subjective opinion as if it were objective truth is as good a rhetorical device as any to express the strength of your feelings on the matter..
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new! I blame his time under british rule for his misery! He did live in France for a long time too 🤔 You have your father's eyes stewy!!
it's like that in the original episode. series 1 had cutaways to sketches but like, in the middle of the standup, which was weird. Lee calls the sketches "Not quite right" on his own site, so I assume he didn't want them to be intercut w each other.
(2:55) - Because Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is quite simply an author's very clever scam. Hats' off to Samuel Beckett. Made a ton of money. And still the so-called intellectual theatrical elite are discussing it's meaning. You still don't get it, do you? Not even after all this time...
Successful?In what context? Successful at being a constipated self opininatedbore who created vacuous ,derivative,ofal for mass public consumption?Yes.Successful.
If coachloads of elderly Essex women want to listen to pastiches of Puccini in West End theatres then at least Andrew can buy some more silly pre raphaelite painting of dreaming golden haired girls painted by old randy blokes.
Samuel Beckett makes me appreciate life.
Andrew Lloyd Webber makes me want to take my own.
I find Andrew fine
How very true ... and vice versa
@@amyclarke41 no one asked
“Wind tunnel monk king” is still my favourite description of a human being
Several years ago, Malcolm Williamson, the Master of the Queen's Music, explained to reporters how he assessed his countryman's mass appeal: Lloyd Webber's music is "everywhere," he said, "but then so is AIDS."
royalist propaganda is rife too
I don’t understand why “ryman’s” has snuck in there...
Stewart's ever so slight smirks to camera suggest such a deep, scathing disdain of his subjects.
like the racist Liz Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's vomit-inducing acts of wisdom and dignity
Such a joy to watch. Love people that are clever, funny and daring. 🌹
I love people who are stupid, boring and cowardly.
1:17
So beautifully put.
It warms my heart and puts a smile on my face to be reminded that at least one other sentient organism feels that way about musicals.
(even if it’s only the character of Stewart Lee as opposed to the man himself)
The starboard leading edge flap control cable on the only surviving example of the Arado Ar 234 Blitz jet bomber has let itself go.
It's not the only surviving one. I've got four in my shed.
@@chattycathydoll Only three, Cathy, The fourth one is a Heinkel He 177, and you need to move it slightly to the left as the roof's leaking.
You can prove anything with facts.
Facts tend to cloud my judgement
Tell that to a muslim. Or a feminist.
You can only prove true things with facts...
Pwecko, tell that to an online commentor .
Pwecko tell that to a xenophobe.
Jazz nazi. We had a beat poet used to come to open mics, with a spoken word piece called Jazz Nazis, while a drunken pianist, bassist and me on sax 'intererpreted' it. Bloody marvelous.
The drunken pianist from that spoken word beat poet group has let himself go.
Utterly marvellous
And another thing. Stewart Lee is a genius. A funny genius.
jazz racist. drunk on the smell of his own farts
And fat. And depressed. And fat as well.
A boring self-righteous twat
Monk in a wind tunnel!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ffs,Stu,beer came out my nostrils.
Fun fact: his (real) wife, Bridget Christie, wrote that bit
@@rowanmorrison7022 I presume any woman of 'Stu's' will have to be as brilliant or equal in their width and bredth of certain matters and Its scary to know that luckily Stu has chosen to unleash his genius through the medium he does and hasnt,but quite easily have chosen to transfer his genius and skills to undertaking evil or immoral gain.I dont usually celeb fascinate but Lee is unique so i do wanna know everything about him..so that is a fact i appreciate knowing...thanks man.
"Great art should be mysterious.
Great art should be opaque."
~ Stewart Lee ~
What a beautiful quote. Shame he's let himself go a bit.
He's just getting more opaque.
@@zootsoot2006 Yet strangely luminous
Pretencious vous?
4:11 Drowning in shit is no reason to break character, try and hold it together love.
It is good to see the curious orange settled down and found himself a nice partner.
drunk on the smell of his own farts, that he calls musicals. BRILLIANT.
Tbf this guy is totally unique.
Andrew Lloyd Webber...in Birmingham...in the 80s...under Thatcher!
Drinking Bovril...
Last two seconds is an homage to Tim Brook Taylors it spreads straight from the fridge spoof margarine ad.
Rip Tim
I laughed so much my chest hurt.
Great job from Peter Serafinowicz voicing Samuel Beckett in the cutaway
One of the few living comedians to understand the hilarious potential of scorn. But you have to pick your targets with care or the joke falls flat. Or that used to be the case. These days, just go to the online paper of your choosing and scroll and stop at random.
Superb narration
Andrew Lloyd Webber is like Ian Huntley to me
You need some help then.
@@ngc-fo5te Agreed.... that comment was totally uncalled for. Shame that 12 sickos gave a thumbs up.
@@patagualianmostly7437 It's a reference to something somebody said to stewart lee online, I doubt it was meant literally on any level by Chris
I've really let myself go.
I've heard there's a problem of institutional jazz racism within the jazz police.
"Wind-tunnel monk King"
Andrew Lloyd Weber, emperor palpatine separated at birth
Andrew Lloyd Webber with an Eskimo face from the 90s.
He gave his critique of ALW straight, like pear cider made with 100% pears.
God, I just realized that he uses Rich's "Who's the real villain?" bit at 1:30
Obviously the real evil man is the businessman, in his suit and tie, who leaves his office in the city on a Tuesday evening and meets his wife and children to take them to the west end for a meal and a nice Andrew Lloyd Webber show.
I suspect, like "I was 28 years old" and "moon on a stick", it's one of those lines neither can remember who came up with and both feel free to use. I've certainly seen both use the "I am not saying I am the new Jesus, that is for others to say" line.
Is a monk in a wind tunnel worse than a greying pineapple?
Phyllida Hickish Tropical fruit has let itself go.
Well I know who I'd rather be trapped with for four and a half hours.
The lights behind Stewart are powered by the smugness of the audience
When Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellan did waiting for Godot it pretty much sold out.
and they are two of the most famous British actors alive, that doesn't say much about the play itself (you don't need top stars doing ALW shows for them to be popular)
the amount of effort gone to, just for that pointless gag! 🤣 this is one of the reasons hes the greatest
Ray liottas little known estranged twin brother who was allergic to wasps and got stung a thousand times in the face has let himself go
"Who's the REAL sick man?" I love how Stu still uses old Richard Herring bits, and verse vice
I just wish those kids could sort it out, they're both better together...sniff...
Where else could one get that unique blend of smug pseudo-intellectualism and faux naive scatology?
'Where else could one get that unique blend of smug pseudo-intellectualism and faux naive scatology?' Perfectly put. I still watch TMWRNJ.
All it needs is “egg! I said egg!”
"Who is the real sick man in this so-called society? Me? Or the businessman in his suit and tie?"
"It's you, Rich. It's still you."
Serafinowicz as Beckett???
Sounds like it, doesn't it?
All I could think of: th-cam.com/video/oXi35VowjMI/w-d-xo.html
You don't sit in a throne. You sit on it.
Like to improvise...genius
The "put it on 4 again" gag was genuinely hilarious! Maybe Stew didn't write that bit.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's let himself go
I think he started out let go
We like this too
Hey kids, this is what satire looks like.
jazz racism is all about the people you *don't* hate
Who's the guy in the pink jumper watching telly
Serafinowicz voicing Beckett. And the fella they cast looks just like him. Beckett, that is. Not Peter.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's cold grey farts are legendary
Andrew lloyd Weber's farts have let themselves go
Andy Floyd Wee you mean?
Andrew Lloyd Webber, with his weird, stretched, Eskimo face from the 90s.
Lee Bee he's certainly let himself go
and his medieval ecclesiastical tonsure of hair.
looking like a monk in a windtunnel...lol
Was that the curious orange on the couch?
Yes, Paul Puttner's worked with Stew on and off for years.
I am curious oranj! No, I am etc.
Stewart might have something to say about the advertising prior to this clip. I skipped it as soon as possible while shouting offensive swear words at my iPad ... but then adverts telling me how wonderful it is in Saudi Arabia do make me a tad cross.
Isn't Webber the guy, that wrote JCSS? I never heard anything else by him, but even if everything else is total garbage (which is possible), JCSS is still brilliant work.
He wrote cats and phantom of the opera and that but he’s also a bit of a knob like when he took a private jet from nyc to London to vote for benefit cuts
He also wrote with Richard stilgoe which destroys any pretence one might have had of ascribing any quality to his creative choices.
@@gurrrn1102 I'd rather Sir Andrew compose with Walther the Pigeon in all honesty...
Andrew Lloyd Webber claims he 'discovered' Rihanna in a hotel in Barbados when she was about 12 years old.... Rather odd, no ?
GazB85 yup. He's on TH-cam talking about it... From 38 seconds...
th-cam.com/video/EyetLs_Qksk/w-d-xo.html
@@ChubbyChecker182 Urgh, one tongue up his arse I really didn't want to think about....
Like Jeffrey Epstein likes to "discover" young girls. Allegedly.
Strange use of the term "discovered" . . .
Thing is, Adam Howell, I have fifty five years of 'technical musical knowledge' and am still a performing musician. Andrew Lloyd Webber has no talent at all to my EARS and that's what counts. I hated everything he did because it was trite, two dimensional, and in the case of Evita, squirmingly inappropriate - if he'd read the truth about the Peron regime he'd never have made a sentimental operatta about it. It's easy for an over educated person whose Dad was a classical musical professional and teacher to cobble together some 'music' but there's no heart in it. There's no struggle behind it. It's a pile of shallow, not very innovative bourgeois bullshit served up to dumb sheeple, and Japanese tourists. He would never, ever have got backers if he hadn't been Who he is, if some 'nobody' had written it it would never have seen the light of day. Rice's lyrics are mainly doggerel too by the way.
But hasn't he done well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh I dunno. Cats was pretty good. Those outfits were very tight.
I'm more of a Sondheim guy myself, but you sound like quite the snob. A little more respect for things that give other people pleasure would not come amiss.
Snobbiest reply on this thread. Kudos
Although I almost completely agree with everything you say, I suspect there is an argument to be made that it's a matter of taste. If one person enjoys his sacharine dirges, then to them he has talent. I too am a musician, but I wouldn't appeal to authority because of it. That said, I do like a good rant myself, and employing subjective opinion as if it were objective truth is as good a rhetorical device as any to express the strength of your feelings on the matter..
There is not now, nor has there ever been, any excuse for jazz.
Thank you Stewart Lee. I hate them too. Can't help it.
Roland Gift has let himself go
And he ripped off Pink Floyd.
Do you think if you are a socialist with more than the minimum wage you should become a Tory, or else give everything away?
Obviously not.
Stephen Parkin Matt was referring to the main riff in Phantom being stolen from Floyd's Echoes. Google Roger Water's comments on ALW - quite funny.
@@Pstephen DOH!
@@Pstephen
Neither.
A monk in a wind tunnel
Stewart Lee is divisive:- left behind daily mail types spewing their incontinence vs erudite, informed humanity x
Jazz racism! *Turns to side camera* "intolerance!"
(Anyone remember "The Fast Show? "Jazz!! Nice!" Hehe 🤣🐈😂)
I'd forgotten how jarring and weak those video cutaways from the first series were.
if you say so
late reply but the "Put it on 4 again" gag left me incapable on breathing when I saw it the first time.
omg
Mark Kermode is looking good.
Dominic Cummins has grown his hair during the second lockdown
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new!
I blame his time under british rule for his misery!
He did live in France for a long time too 🤔
You have your father's eyes stewy!!
Yep!
And ten years later it's only become MUCH worse... like pear cider made from 100% pears...
wait what's the last skit from
it's like that in the original episode. series 1 had cutaways to sketches but like, in the middle of the standup, which was weird. Lee calls the sketches "Not quite right" on his own site, so I assume he didn't want them to be intercut w each other.
Equity minimum. Holy shit !
Was that a pseudo Graham Norton? Kudos to the voice actor.
Ok but wasn't that actual literal Beckett in the clips? How was he wrangled into this fiasco?
"Technical musical Knowledge" You are talking bollocks my son. It is entry level music at best. Now THAT is fact.
So funny
Humpty Dumpty from Playschool has really let himself go.
Who's the real sick man in this so called society
Isn't ALW quite a soft target? What about traffic wardens, ballet dancers, gingers...
why all hate ALW??
You need to ask!?
@@zetetick395 yeah.. from Italy...
(2:55) - Because Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is quite simply an author's very clever scam.
Hats' off to Samuel Beckett.
Made a ton of money.
And still the so-called intellectual theatrical elite are discussing it's meaning.
You still don't get it, do you?
Not even after all this time...
Bodragon shut up, dad.
'...is discussing its meaning...'
Pray tell the scam
How can art be both mysterious and opaque? Lol
Opposite of transparent
How can it not be? Do you know the meaning of the two words?
@@MontyCantsin5 yes opaque suggests certainty, mysterious suggests uncertainty, in this context. Therefore they would be opposites
Bored now, think I'll put on channel 4 again...
That is not an apple in front of the painting of that face.
I am British thru' and thru' and I hate ALW with all my heart as he is rich, famous and successful. Horrid,Simply Horrid.
Successful?In what context? Successful at being a constipated self opininatedbore who created vacuous ,derivative,ofal for mass public consumption?Yes.Successful.
I see Eric Pickles has let himself go.
Is that Hugo Boss/Joe Lycett that should be so lucky at the end there? The Hitler comparison just keeps getting deeper
A jazz racist lol
The Kurious Oranj has let itself down.
Terry Christian has let himself go.
If coachloads of elderly Essex women want to listen to pastiches of Puccini in West End theatres then at least Andrew can buy some more silly pre raphaelite painting of dreaming golden haired girls painted by old randy blokes.
Could happen.C4 on the case.
Lmao 🤣
He's alright, but he's no Chris Turner!
Does webber look like lee wrapped in clingfilm... a bit?
Stew’s let himself go
The Portuguese race...
Lord reith really let himself go...so did Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Marian Faithfull has let himself go.
LOL at the comments making a stab at getting on Lee's next 'comments' skit. Try harder!
So good. LMAO.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's let him self go
Andrew Lloyd-Weber's let himself go.
Lord Reith sounds absolutely based.
"Cats" is good.
No supper for you . . .