I love that the audience shots show people who find his work absolutely hilarious and people who look absolutely miserable or even furious with the material. That's how you know it's a good Lee set.
@chrisswindell7704 I think he's a gifted and talented comedian but he presents a persona that is so sarcastic and jaded that it seems to me his company would be a horrible way to spend an evening. However self righteous you must feel attending the gig and of being so much more highly evolved than Michael McIntyre fans, the simple fact of the matter is, Michael is life affirming and keen to entertain, whereas Lee would prefer it if only intelligent people with his exact worldview and appreciation of his cleverness would come to his gigs! He treats everyone with a different worldview or political/religious belief with disdain, and in all honesty I thing he's probably happy at the news that Richard Hammond's marriage has now failed. I expect this news to feature in his new material! Lee will always have my respect for the Pear Cider routine but I'm also really glad that he lost loads of money with the blasphemy that was Jerry Springer the Operal (it's just a joke like they tell on Top Gear). 😉
His craft is taking certain lines that are quite good and which would get maybe one OK laugh, and delivering them so slowly and deliberately that they achieve three or four increasingly big laughs and move into a level of meta comedy. I think the confidence and reading of the audience to get that right is a credit to his stage experience.
I think once you start to read into people’s performances to this degree the comedy implodes & your left with philosophical theories. Which are boring.
@@SeeRedz you can have a good laugh at a thing, and then find intrigue in picking it apart afterwards. The one thing doesn't magically erase the other thing from time, they both still happen.
He’s just so, so very good at stand up! His use of English language is awe inspiringly hilarious what a gem 💎 Find myself worrying bout his health, really hope he’s ok👍♥️💎🌈💃🏿✊♥️♥️ worried bout his health now
i like that you can literally rediscover a Stewart Lee routine in the same we you can discover a piece of art, which is obviously how he treats comedy. I can watch a routine numerous times and see something I didn't see the last time. Genius.
I just had the same thought - the knowledge of his work and style makes seeing this again even funnier - I see you wrote this 8 years ago - but he is the best!
Honestly, if it wasn't for Stewart Lee, I wouldn't have known the man did stand up. His stuff isn't really my cup of tea but it's odd that he only came to my attention from Father Ted.
I often find myself revisiting this video and it always guarantees a laugh. How Stewart Lee slowly unravels the joke in his inimitable, wonderfully literate style whilst never mugging to the audience or laughing at his own material and just nonchalantly reiterating the same facts which makes the material all the funnier. Then he’ll throw in a rant or in this case a calm but savage takedown and comedy gold is created. The guy’s a genius ….
If you mean "Basic Lee" I concur. Just seen it in Canterbury and it was the funniest two hours of my life. He's got better and better at audience destruction. It was glorious.
the worst thing about a colonoscopy is that you have one when you dont need to,and the fluid they give you to clean out the bowel,also not eating anything for 24 hours,be prepared to get a letter when you are about 60.
@@forgive7449 I’m responding to you 2 years after you posed this question. As I type it’s occurring to me, that during the intervening years, you may not have retained your interest in Joe, and his career. Or, maybe, you found your answer. I’ll probably never know. Still, I thought I’d tell you what I do know. And that is, A lady I work with called Lesley, is accompanying her husband to the Joe Pasquale summer show 2023.
As a very loud laugher myself, I can only say that's just the way we are. We're not trying to draw attention to ourselves and are often embarrassed. Sorry.
Going to see "a comedy show" and it turned out to be Stewart Lee is like going to see "a movie" and it turned out to be My Dinner With Andre. "WTF was that? But I like it!"
In his book, That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate, he explains why he uses "endoscopy" rather than "colonoscopy": namely, he thought "colonoscopy" would give away the joke too quickly. So, it's a bit grating, but he made the error on purpose.
Tom McCauley - the use of the word endoscopy by Lee is not incorrect, just less specific, than colonoscopy. An endoscopy may be of the colon, stomach, oesophagus and many other areas of the body - it is the name of the procedure using a fibre optic tube and camera to investigate the inside of the body. As you say, he uses this word in order not to spoil the surprise when he says 'anus' - but it is not medically incorrect.
@@honeychurchgipsy6 But he didn't just say he had an endoscopy. He explained that an endoscopy is when they stick a camera up your bum. That's not what the word means. He deliberately misdefined the word for reasons of comic timing.
@@crispindry2815 he doesn't like arena gigs. His run in Leicester Square that he did over SIX months completely sold out and added up to selling out 5 arenas if he'd chosen to do it that way. Plus he's done numerous TV things. Despite being quite a niche comedian. For his type of comedy, he's been amazingly successful, and is pretty successful by any metric. So yeah, you're talking shite...
Jim Davidson also nicked one of Rob Newman's jokes / routines where he (Newman, that is) gets annoyed with footage of starving children in charity appeal TV ads ("Just wipe those flies out of your eyes you c---t!) Davidson, being Davidson of course, missed the preamble where Newman was discussing how we run out of "the milk of human kindness" eventually. But then subtlety was never Davidson's strong suit
Three guys are walking through the woods when they find a lamp. One of them picks it up, rubs it, and out pops a Genie. It booms "You have finally freed me after all these years, so I'll grant each one of you 3 wishes." The first guy immediately blurts out "I want a billion dollars." POOF, he's holding a printout that shows his account balance is now in fact 1,000,000,003.50 The second man thinks for a bit, then says "I want to be the richest man alive." POOF, he's holding papers showing his net worth is now well over 100 billion. The third guy thinks even longer about his wish, then says "I want my left arm to rotate clockwise for the rest of my life." POOF, his arm starts rotating. The Genie tells them it's time for their second wish. The first guy says: "I want to be married to the most beautiful woman on earth." POOF, a stunning beauty wraps herself around his arm. The second guy says "I want to be good-looking and charismatic, so I can have every girl I want." POOF, his looks change and the first guy's wife immediately starts flirting with him. The third guy says "I want my right arm to rotate counter-clockwise until I die." POOF, now both his arms are rotating, in opposite directions. The genie tells them to think very carefully about their third wish. The first guy does, and after a while says "I never want to become sick or injured, I want to stay healthy until I die." POOF, his complexion improves, his acne is gone and his knees don't bother him anymore. The second guy says "I never want to grow old. I want to stay 29 forever." POOF, he looks younger already. The third guy smiles triumphantly and says "My last wish is for my head to nod back and forth." POOF, he's now nodding his head and still flailing his arms around. The genie wishes them good luck, disappears, and the men soon go their separate ways. Many years later they meet again and chat about how things have been going. The first guy is ecstatic: "I've invested the money and multiplied it many times over, so me and my family will be among the richest of the rich pretty much forever. My wife is a freak in the sheets, and I've never gotten so much as a cold in all these years." The second guy smiles and says "Well, I built charities worldwide with a fraction of my wealth, I'm still the richest guy alive and also revered for my good deeds. I haven't aged a day since we last met, and yes, your wife is pretty wild in bed." The third guy walks in, flailing his arms around and nodding his head, and says: "Guys, I think I fucked up."
It's not mine, I got it off someone on facebook... who knows where any jokes come from. I thought I would post it here because a) this video is a very good example of a very long drawn out and very good joke by stewart lee, and b) my joke above is a meta-joke, ie it's only funny because of other jokes using a similar structure: it's not funny at all in itself. This is the sort of thing stewart lee does. Normal jokes set up one expectation then subvert it. Once you have heard enough jokes, you expect this to happen, so meta-jokes subvert this new expectation. This depends on the audience having heard a certain amount of similar stuff the comedian has, which is what attracts a lot of flak from his critics for being a culture snob. Anyway I hope you liked it and weren't being sarcastic :)
i went to school with joe pasquale, he always used to do this elk noise impression, i mean all the time... it was annoying as hell. also he used to pretend to be scared of mole hills, he used to walk around the playing field screaming and jumping about whenever he saw one. he was an idiot
@@simonmoore2380 Let me rectify my original reply, as you don't seem _sure_ "His childhood fancies aren't relevant" and "i'm sure you weren't a flawless child". There you go.
@@Virolaxion i saw him years later, he was eating a walnut whip at the traffic lights by the crossing up where budgens used to be, i said hello, but he didn't recognize me.
Dude, that is tragic. 20 years without laughing once? Nice to know that Stew book-ended your 20 year mirth dearth, but you should have tried some other comics.
I am the aforentioned older man. I drink too much and for evidence I have a large vodka in front of me.There are not one, but two, ginsters pasties in the fridge as we speak. I too, have diverticulitis. Not only do I feel both seen and relevant, but I aslo feel as I've let myself go.
Phrases ending in the words "...have let themselves go..." have deteriorated in appearance to due a lack of personal care, presumably due to lockdown, like everyone.
"Even though your home... lacks the most rudimentary of brewing facilities"
Such a savage insult 😂
The all time greatest. There’s nobody near him and he’s alive while we are.
That's not true.
Joe Pasquale?
@@danyoutube7491 forgot about him
@@danyoutube7491 you are just being unfunny.
Go and see his latest... Manwulf....brilliant
I love that the audience shots show people who find his work absolutely hilarious and people who look absolutely miserable or even furious with the material. That's how you know it's a good Lee set.
And the people who enjoy it are 100% feeding off the rage and confusion of those not enjoying it.
'Is this innovation or a mistake?'
@chrisswindell7704 I think he's a gifted and talented comedian but he presents a persona that is so sarcastic and jaded that it seems to me his company would be a horrible way to spend an evening. However self righteous you must feel attending the gig and of being so much more highly evolved than Michael McIntyre fans, the simple fact of the matter is, Michael is life affirming and keen to entertain, whereas Lee would prefer it if only intelligent people with his exact worldview and appreciation of his cleverness would come to his gigs! He treats everyone with a different worldview or political/religious belief with disdain, and in all honesty I thing he's probably happy at the news that Richard Hammond's marriage has now failed. I expect this news to feature in his new material! Lee will always have my respect for the Pear Cider routine but I'm also really glad that he lost loads of money with the blasphemy that was Jerry Springer the Operal (it's just a joke like they tell on Top Gear). 😉
One of the best crafted slams I've ever witnessed and probably my favourite ten minutes of comedy ever.
My own favourite with Lee is his black imaginary wife and gay imaginary husband. Dave Allen was brilliant too.
I've just caught it. The guy is a comedic craftsman.
@@mizofan stewart lee has let himself go.
The Top Gear bit was my favourite. Absolutely fucking piss myself
@@mizofan do you know "Lee"?
In case anyone doesn’t know who Michael Redmond is, he was the boring priest in Father Ted who got struck by lightning on the crazy golf course.
Father Stone
@@attentionaddicts Have you seen Father Shorthall lately?
@@ayrshiresoundman I think he must be about 80 now
@@Shazbut0191 suppose so
Went to see him in Liverpool a couple of years ago. Possibly the most gifted wordsmith on the comedy circuit I've ever heard. Wonderful 👏
His craft is taking certain lines that are quite good and which would get maybe one OK laugh, and delivering them so slowly and deliberately that they achieve three or four increasingly big laughs and move into a level of meta comedy. I think the confidence and reading of the audience to get that right is a credit to his stage experience.
Its called the slug punch.in the trade.
Fascinating. So the bit is in the timing the rhythm the resonance the having of a resilient ping pong cricket bat
I think once you start to read into people’s performances to this degree the comedy implodes & your left with philosophical theories. Which are boring.
@@SeeRedz its good for learning, and if you're interested in breaking down why you really really like something
@@SeeRedz you can have a good laugh at a thing, and then find intrigue in picking it apart afterwards. The one thing doesn't magically erase the other thing from time, they both still happen.
One of the most lyrically gifted comedians alive today.
nice of Joe Pasquale to give an opinion. or should I say Stuart lee?
@@whatshisname3304 no-one does it like Lee
the internet is the home of superlatives
He’s just so, so very good at stand up!
His use of English language is awe inspiringly hilarious what a gem 💎
Find myself worrying bout his health, really hope he’s ok👍♥️💎🌈💃🏿✊♥️♥️ worried bout his health now
I've never heard of him
I think this is the dictionary definition of 'top of your game'. Inch perfect.
Sunday league maybe.... Your description indicates Peter Cook - a comedian Stewart Lee is nowhere near as good, funny or literate as.
@@rnw2739 zzzzzzzzzzz (Stewart Lee would probably agree with you though).
@@royemembury6324 Zzzzzzzzzzz Fact isn't a question of 'agreement' but carry on lol.
@@rnw2739The very dated Pater Cook is vastly inferior in all departments to Stewart Lee.
For me this is Stewart Lee at his best. Comedy gold in that matter of fact style that is often the hallmark of good comedians.
He gives it to you straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pears
This is why he is considered the comedian's comedian. The timing is perfect.
apparently he steals material from joe pasquale.
Wrong...that was Peter Cook. This waffling fool is not worthy of wiping Cooks arsehole.
Stewart Lee is absolutely brilliant, I'd love to see him live if he came to Ireland
i like that you can literally rediscover a Stewart Lee routine in the same we you can discover a piece of art, which is obviously how he treats comedy. I can watch a routine numerous times and see something I didn't see the last time. Genius.
I just had the same thought - the knowledge of his work and style makes seeing this again even funnier - I see you wrote this 8 years ago - but he is the best!
9 years ago
11 years ago
@@LASHH966911 years and 2 weeks ago
Quite possibly my favourite routine in comedy history. It's a poetic put down sung from a comedy Laureate
You can prove anything with facts
Lee's cadence and timing here are basically perfect
thats subjective
It's really not that subjective, to be fair...
"here"?
stewart lee has let himself go
@@ykkrasaoz9748 'The liberal intelligencia'.
Michael Redmond was Father Stone from Father Ted.
No I'm fine
oh shit!
Are you sure you wouldn't like a cup of tea Father Stone?
no way!
Honestly, if it wasn't for Stewart Lee, I wouldn't have known the man did stand up. His stuff isn't really my cup of tea but it's odd that he only came to my attention from Father Ted.
"Even though your home lacks the most rudimentary of brewing facilities."
"Your hospital gown lacks the most rudimentary of genital covering facilities"
"Even though Joe Pasquale lacks the most rudimentary joke writing abilities"
@@chattycathydoll Well done, I wonder if Stewart realized his joke could be interpreted that way.
@@videolad3057 That was the whole purpose of the joke. He wrote it with that in mind obviously.
@@ngc-fo5te I assume you're a Stewart Lee fan? That being the case, I'm astounded at your failure to grasp such a simple example of sarcasm.
Stewart Lee is one of the best comics ever in my opinion saw this show live and it is frikkin awesome thanks for posting.
i bloody love stewart Lee . all his work is gold
yet again proving he's one of the funniest and cleverest people around. Brilliant
My favourite stand-up comedian. Wonderful
This never gets old.
Interesting that by the standards of Stewart Lee today, this is a veritable torrent of one-liners :-)
I often find myself revisiting this video and it always guarantees a laugh. How Stewart Lee slowly unravels the joke in his inimitable, wonderfully literate style whilst never mugging to the audience or laughing at his own material and just nonchalantly reiterating the same facts which makes the material all the funnier. Then he’ll throw in a rant or in this case a calm but savage takedown and comedy gold is created. The guy’s a genius ….
The new show shreds this routine to pieces, in the most magnificent way.
Do you mean the Snowflake/Tornado shows? Or something else? I'm keen to understand what you mean.
@@CraigsWorkshop Might mean the 'Basic Lee' show that's just finished at Leicester Square? He'll be touring it this year.
@@ChuckieMcHaggis thanks 👍
If you mean "Basic Lee" I concur. Just seen it in Canterbury and it was the funniest two hours of my life. He's got better and better at audience destruction. It was glorious.
Loving all the mouthbreathers in the audience who thought they were watching Joe Pasquale.
Is that you, Frank?
Brilliant! I must get to see him.
113 dislikes from Joe Pasquale and his 'writers'.
its 118 now. Maybe in 6 months it'll be 160!!
If I end up having a colonoscopy, I'll inevitably end up thinking about Joe Pasquale...
the worst thing about a colonoscopy is that you have one when you dont need to,and the fluid they give you to clean out the bowel,also not eating anything for 24 hours,be prepared to get a letter when you are about 60.
Cheers Rob...
There is one guy who is absolutely loving it
The name of that man? Mr. J. Pasquale
and Joe Pasquale was never heard from again.. beautiful... chapeau à Stewart Lee
i heard pasquale became a gardener.
@@forgive7449 I’m responding to you 2 years after you posed this question. As I type it’s occurring to me, that during the intervening years, you may not have retained your interest in Joe, and his career. Or, maybe, you found your answer. I’ll probably never know.
Still, I thought I’d tell you what I do know.
And that is, A lady I work with called Lesley, is accompanying her husband to the Joe Pasquale summer show 2023.
@@FranssensMSo they were the two that actually showed up.
@@ngc-fo5te 🤣
Never came across him until today. He's totally hilarious. Haven't guffawed so uncontrollably for a long time.
I love this, on a par with his Graham Norton BAFTA routine
An absolute master.
bater.
@@forgive7449 No further comment needed🤷♂️
"What could he possibly want" genius line, 😅 it's like in that moment he's considered all the options and just can't think why Joe is there😂
That coconut I won on the coconut shy at my school fete 25 years ago has let itself go.
The only thing that could improve that video would be the digital removal of that guy who's laughing like he gets the joke more than everyone else.
I think that's Joe Pasquale. He has a lower voice when he isn't on stage telling other people's jokes.
I didn’t notice that until I read this comment. Thanks.
@@walterz77 you didn't notice?! Do you notice things like fire alarms or Sirens?
As a very loud laugher myself, I can only say that's just the way we are. We're not trying to draw attention to ourselves and are often embarrassed. Sorry.
Going to see "a comedy show" and it turned out to be Stewart Lee is like going to see "a movie" and it turned out to be My Dinner With Andre. "WTF was that? But I like it!"
Personally my favourite 10 minutes ever. Makes it look easy.
There will come a time, just like with Phil Daoust, when this gag is the top search result for Joe Pasquale
Stewart is head and shoulders above most comics, love the man.
Not a patch on all the 'Russels' though!
Oh you mean metaphorically, didn't remember him being that tall...
In his book, That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate, he explains why he uses "endoscopy" rather than "colonoscopy": namely, he thought "colonoscopy" would give away the joke too quickly. So, it's a bit grating, but he made the error on purpose.
Got you...
I now feel better about it.
Tom McCauley - the use of the word endoscopy by Lee is not incorrect, just less specific, than colonoscopy. An endoscopy may be of the colon, stomach, oesophagus and many other areas of the body - it is the name of the procedure using a fibre optic tube and camera to investigate the inside of the body. As you say, he uses this word in order not to spoil the surprise when he says 'anus' - but it is not medically incorrect.
I heard no error.
@@honeychurchgipsy6 But he didn't just say he had an endoscopy. He explained that an endoscopy is when they stick a camera up your bum. That's not what the word means. He deliberately misdefined the word for reasons of comic timing.
don't you just love the close-ups of disappointed audience members?
They look a tough crowd. They would love jim Davidson by the look of them or bernard manning perhaps.
@@crispindry2815 If you don't think Stewart Lee is funny why are you watching a video titled "Stewart Lee: Edinburgh and Beyond 2005" ?
@@crispindry2815 commissioned for TV work? His TV show had four series lmao
@@rossdonachie9800 In the fruit world, Ogri is a plum.
@@crispindry2815 he doesn't like arena gigs.
His run in Leicester Square that he did over SIX months completely sold out and added up to selling out 5 arenas if he'd chosen to do it that way.
Plus he's done numerous TV things. Despite being quite a niche comedian.
For his type of comedy, he's been amazingly successful, and is pretty successful by any metric.
So yeah, you're talking shite...
In the subsequent 16 years since this was filmed. Stuart Lee has really let himself go.
He looks fat and depressed
@@ozzythecats Not surprising....he must have finally been told a comedian should get more than one laugh every 20 minutes..
@@rnw2739 show me on the doll where Stewart Lee molested your fragile right wing sensibilities
I’ve got the Brad Pitts as I’m watching this. Can’t stray too far from the throne. He’s literally sacrificing his health for our amusement.
best burn ever
Jim Davidson also nicked one of Rob Newman's jokes / routines where he (Newman, that is) gets annoyed with footage of starving children in charity appeal TV ads ("Just wipe those flies out of your eyes you c---t!) Davidson, being Davidson of course, missed the preamble where Newman was discussing how we run out of "the milk of human kindness" eventually. But then subtlety was never Davidson's strong suit
I saw Michael Redmond use that joke decades ago. It was brilliant and new.
Do not waste your life spending time with people who aren’t greatly entertained by this man.
❤
Three guys are walking through the woods when they find a lamp. One of them picks it up, rubs it, and out pops a Genie. It booms "You have finally freed me after all these years, so I'll grant each one of you 3 wishes." The first guy immediately blurts out "I want a billion dollars." POOF, he's holding a printout that shows his account balance is now in fact 1,000,000,003.50 The second man thinks for a bit, then says "I want to be the richest man alive." POOF, he's holding papers showing his net worth is now well over 100 billion. The third guy thinks even longer about his wish, then says "I want my left arm to rotate clockwise for the rest of my life." POOF, his arm starts rotating. The Genie tells them it's time for their second wish. The first guy says: "I want to be married to the most beautiful woman on earth." POOF, a stunning beauty wraps herself around his arm. The second guy says "I want to be good-looking and charismatic, so I can have every girl I want." POOF, his looks change and the first guy's wife immediately starts flirting with him. The third guy says "I want my right arm to rotate counter-clockwise until I die." POOF, now both his arms are rotating, in opposite directions. The genie tells them to think very carefully about their third wish. The first guy does, and after a while says "I never want to become sick or injured, I want to stay healthy until I die." POOF, his complexion improves, his acne is gone and his knees don't bother him anymore. The second guy says "I never want to grow old. I want to stay 29 forever." POOF, he looks younger already. The third guy smiles triumphantly and says "My last wish is for my head to nod back and forth." POOF, he's now nodding his head and still flailing his arms around. The genie wishes them good luck, disappears, and the men soon go their separate ways. Many years later they meet again and chat about how things have been going. The first guy is ecstatic: "I've invested the money and multiplied it many times over, so me and my family will be among the richest of the rich pretty much forever. My wife is a freak in the sheets, and I've never gotten so much as a cold in all these years." The second guy smiles and says "Well, I built charities worldwide with a fraction of my wealth, I'm still the richest guy alive and also revered for my good deeds. I haven't aged a day since we last met, and yes, your wife is pretty wild in bed." The third guy walks in, flailing his arms around and nodding his head, and says: "Guys, I think I fucked up."
It's not mine, I got it off someone on facebook... who knows where any jokes come from. I thought I would post it here because a) this video is a very good example of a very long drawn out and very good joke by stewart lee, and b) my joke above is a meta-joke, ie it's only funny because of other jokes using a similar structure: it's not funny at all in itself. This is the sort of thing stewart lee does. Normal jokes set up one expectation then subvert it. Once you have heard enough jokes, you expect this to happen, so meta-jokes subvert this new expectation. This depends on the audience having heard a certain amount of similar stuff the comedian has, which is what attracts a lot of flak from his critics for being a culture snob. Anyway I hope you liked it and weren't being sarcastic :)
brilliant, thanks for that! :D
hexonatapeloop superb joke 😂😂😂
Not funny.
You might be able to sell that one to Joe Pasquale for a pint of bitter.
funnily enough I do actually have some rudimentary brewing facilities at my home.
So can you write your own jokes?
Superb
Michael redman is father stone?
Simply superb
The moral of this story is have Rudimentary Brewing Facilities.
9.51 - I think its the guy in the red England top (the crazy laugh man)!!
I'm not sure that it is.
"In a coquettish fashion" is Humour High.
Excellent
I'm 50 years old and I've never seent the inside of a hospital.
Shows how bad my eyes are.
copyright Bernard Manning.
Cake is a made up drug
from Twitter guys 🙌
It’s a Colonoscopy!
Endoscopy is for the throat and stomach 😂
Don’t mix them up😂
Any good endoscopy ends up as a colonoscopy
If you dont get this I feel very sorry for you.
The video clip of Stuart Lee's stand up comedy or your comment?
@@unclepizza2000 or his apparent empathy.
So nice of you to care.
fucking brilliant. you either get it, or you don't.
eyemoeba I think everyone gets it, you find it funny or you don't
+eyemoeba I don't think it's too hard to understand mate lol. Just might not be some peoples cup of tea, i like it personally.
I think everyone finds it funny, either you laugh or you don't.
Bloody legend
I think he's better now than he was then because his audience is just there to see him now, and he experiments more.
i went to school with joe pasquale, he always used to do this elk noise impression, i mean all the time... it was annoying as hell. also he used to pretend to be scared of mole hills, he used to walk around the playing field screaming and jumping about whenever he saw one. he was an idiot
not sure how relevant his childhood fancies are to modern day Pasquale... although i'm sure you were a flawless child
@@Virolaxion You're "not sure" how relevant it is? Well, if you're not sure then I wouldn't bother to comment.
@@simonmoore2380 Let me rectify my original reply, as you don't seem _sure_
"His childhood fancies aren't relevant" and "i'm sure you weren't a flawless child". There you go.
@@Virolaxion i saw him years later, he was eating a walnut whip at the traffic lights by the crossing up where budgens used to be, i said hello, but he didn't recognize me.
Just sounds a bit auts tbh
You could leave your house unlocked….because it didn’t exist 😆
Well I won't be nicking any of Stewart Lee's jokes any time soon.
An impossible task.... certainly for this segment, about as funny as Syd Little.
I remember laughing really hard when I first heard Lee say the thing about Pasquale in the garden, years ago.
me too. made my face hurt from laughing
Masterful
That Moose in Skeggy had the exact same thought
....pure gold!
It's a shame that this man is unknown in the United States.
Yes it is , why should we have to put up with him ?
@@deankeith830 apparently he is a comedian (although he doesn't look like one)
He's unknown here as well. Not funny.
@@desbrittain9952 Not nearly as good a all the Russells is he
Hes barely known in his own home.
Has anyone got the link to Joe Pasquale telling that joke? 🤣
Anyone?
This is the first time in about 20 years, since I first saw this guy in the mid 90's that i have actually laughed.....Well done S Lee!
Dude, that is tragic. 20 years without laughing once? Nice to know that Stew book-ended your 20 year mirth dearth, but you should have tried some other comics.
so Stewart Lee is the only person to make you laugh in 20 long years since you first saw him? Amazing
took you long enough to raise your game
Legend!! This clip is 2nd only to 'vomited into the gaping anus of Christ' routine in my all time Stewart Lee great routines.
playing the room as it's dealt is right up there too
These days, if you say you’re Joe Pasquale, you get arrested and thrown in jail. Which is nice.
that's Father Stone from Father Ted he's on about.
Good to heat that his laughing stalker is in the crowd.
👌🤐🤐
... hear* ...
Clever funny man
He is a genius
As perfectly brewed as a pear cider
I am the aforentioned older man. I drink too much and for evidence I have a large vodka in front of me.There are not one, but two, ginsters pasties in the fridge as we speak. I too, have diverticulitis. Not only do I feel both seen and relevant, but I aslo feel as I've let myself go.
yeah! Stew can always be relied on to speak truth to power
I work at the Whittington Hospital where this happened but I do not work in Endoscopy. So don't blame me
Are you jaded?
FYI Jim Davidson slightly edges Stewart Lee in terms of pulling in huge prime time TV audiences over a long career span.
Unfortunately, those audiences are mainly made up of complete morons.
OK
And dog shit attracts flies
Is that George Costanza in the audience
Brilliant
Some members in the audience look amazingly bored. Not a smirk. It's just not his type of crowd. Awesome set though...
I saw one or two laugh.
Would give my right arm to be in the same room as Stewart Lee for 20 minutes.
In my top 2 of all time dinner guests.
He is no.1 by the way !
Who's number 2?
@@Overstatementdon't ask him that, he's begging to be asked that with that "oooh look at me" comment
Nice that he bigged up the great Jim Davidson. A true giant of standup, and someone Leigh Stewart obviously looks up to.
Good craic from the doctor and nurse.
Is it just me or does it sound like Armando iannuci is laughing the loudest?
I like his jeans.
Smashed it
Great social commentator Stewart.
which i would never do
Phrases ending in the words "...have let themselves go..." have deteriorated in appearance to due a lack of personal care, presumably due to lockdown, like everyone.
Such a smart arse, love it
Kidnapped racehorse Shergar has let himself go.