Comments on: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle

By: Cameron Borland

Cameron Borland — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:30:22 +0000

Lee is, without doubt, a charm free vacuum who has bathed in a bath of shit. Emotionally unintelligent and intellectually retarded, he offers up a form of comedy that is both visually appalling and aurally disingenuos. A twat in other words. Top marks to him for foisting this crap and people buying it.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:31:25 +0000

I watched all the episodes and enjoyed them, I laughed out loud some of the time and cringed a couple of times, the sketch about the apples (on and on and on….). I also felt that I may not have been at the correct academic level to quite get what was going on here…..was he deconstructing the comedy format/joke or trying to subvert the TV comedian format……over all loved the stand up but didn’t much like the sketches….apart from the channel 4/5 sewage sketches…..top comedian great live but a little too intelligent perhaps for the masses……?

By: Jim Blim

Jim Blim — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:07:48 +0000

Stewart Lee is a talented comedian but his targets in this series have been weak and his tendancy to repeat to camera to add emphasis wore thin after the fourth or fitfh time. Wore thin. After the fourth or fifth time. I have no doubt that he has better material to offer and although it’s good to see him on BBC2 I feel he’d be better suited to BBC4 where he could let rip more a la Charlie Brooker.

Talking of which. I think Mr Brooker could have one good major channel series in him before being banished from the beeb. How about a return for Chris Morris or Victor Lewis Smith? Oh nostalgia!

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:37:27 +0000

What?

Don’t know why you referenced 1999 in the reply. Oh, I see, it was so you could make your own ‘lazy comedy slag’ reference to ‘The link’ and ‘Who wants to be a’.

The Del boy bit wasn’t talking about the clip itself, but the 100′s of Andrew Collins style clip shows that champion it.

By: Graham Kibble-White

Graham Kibble-White — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:07:36 +0000

Oh, TJ, this review is being quoted in today’s Independent!

By: Graham Kibble-White

Graham Kibble-White — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:23:23 +0000

Shame the second episode – which I only looked at this morning – was so poor. Del Boy, falling through the bar? When was this recorded? 1999? Hey Stu, how about taking a pop at the trend for wobby cameras, these talking head clip shows and the dominance of The Weakest Link and Who Wants to be a Millionaire while you’re at it?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:04:25 +0000

“I’m not the one claiming intellectual superiority”

Happy enough to wave your willy about on a public comment board though, eh? A review is subjective. Go write your own if it bothers you that much.

By: Samson J Thomas

Samson J Thomas — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:00:31 +0000

Alex Gray, you’re quite a rude man aren’t you?

By: Nick H

Nick H — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:27:32 +0000

He’s obviously not a fan of slapstick, then…

By: Rob Williams

Rob Williams — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:27:02 +0000

And what’s Russell Brand then? His Ponderland is just based on getting tired local news clips and such and commenting that something ‘funny’ will come because of them. Stewart Lee might not be trendy, but his experience counts for a refreshing type of comedy show where it isn’t the star but the subject shines through. Its time the chance was given to other 90′s comedians to take their place at the top table, step forward Adam and Joe plus Mel and Sue…