Stewart Francis - For One Night Only

This clip features the comedian Stewart Francis from the show For One Night Only.
After the creative success of Saturday Live Again, broadcast in December 2007, ITV decided to commit to more comedy and music on ITV1 for 2008. The result was a co-production with ITV Productions called For One Night Only, a huge-scale variety music and comedy spectacular. Each week the show had a different pair of co-hosts - Vernon Kay and Joan Rivers anyone? - and just to make things more exciting, the series went out live (although the third one had a scheduling tussle with X Factor and had to transmit a little later). The show featured huge mainstream pop stars - Pink, Rihanna, Will Young, Pussycat Dolls, Tom Jones, Michael Bublé- all bumping shoulders in the narrow corridors at Fountain Studios with stand-ups like Milton Jones, Will Smith, Stephen K Amos and Mark Watson and a bunch of Chinese acrobats or a German wheel dancer or whichever crazy variety act had been booked that week....
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[@kjamison5951]

If you want a joke with an innuendo, Stewart Francis will give you one.

[@alm2187]

Know what would make for some nice contrast, though? There's the one about the housekeeper, the window washer, and the pool man. It's a good, clean joke. That all changed when someone optioned the movie rights. The workmen wore showy work clothes, but they put the housekeeper in one of those French maid costumes...

[@GregoryPLoomis]

The 7 thumbs down 👎 are people who remember swimming back to shore thinking….

[@kissmypaleass]

Wow,you have 7 thumbs?!?

[@larrybubley1393]

@@kissmypaleass tree

[@JesusIsKing50]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@marty_blue3544]

Tastes sort of peppery doesn't it

[@JesusIsKing50]

As I read this comment I remember swimming back to shore thinking 🤔

[@benhurley280]

Absolute genius his humour is suited for the British audience 👍🏻

[@Aaron-og2wx]

He's awesome and his voice reminds me of Phil Hartman

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

That sun joke was brilliant.

[@larryclemens1850]

Or, was it?

[@poolstar1974]

Francis and Vine king of the one liners. Quality comedy best since Monkhouse and Cooper.

[@keef000]

Love it, great comedian, or is he.

[@alm2187]

Reminds me of my act. Everyone was laughing at my stories of little, personal misfortunes. Then I had to get on-stage and do my act.

[@khymaaren]

Hard to tell with this renegade.

[@ARTPLAYSGAMES86]

That book store rejection joke was hilarious 😆😂

[@cuteguy9358]

Stewart Francis is a great comedian. :-)

[@dalek3086]

def not funny

[@A..Shadow..]

​@@dalek3086 He's funnier than your dead relatives though. And they're hilarious.

[@WildPhotoShooter]

He's the best one liner in the world today.

[@kylestubbs8867]

Funny how that all started…

[@Don-ii4vm]

I prefer Gary Delaney, he seems to have a wider repertoire. Milton Jones, Jimmy Carr, Steven Wright are also great.

[@joeboobyer5362]

Gary Delaney for Filth and tim vine for dad jokes

[@ploppythekangaroo]

Tim vine.

[@mikeorclem]

or is he.

[@chaz1550]

Really appreciate one liners and a play on words, many thanks Stewart.

[@michaelireland7239]

a grade class act

[@cuttercorvin]

Never heard of him.He’s awesome!

[@ianmcnulty3279]

He was one of the grieving fathers at Sandy Hook. Not a very good actor though. Sorry for his sad loss

[@ChadeGB]

I like that some of these gags he was doing back in the 90s, but he keeps them in and then builds on them, adding new bits to them and refining them over the years, so when you think you've heard it before, he comes out with something unexpected and new, but still familiar.

[@tanyaandelvis2698]

Superb talent

[@SidLaw500]

My favorite one liner comedian.

[@mikebutler0278]

Love this set. Good work 😂

[@mattwilkes3856]

Very Very funny guy.

[@ianeagle40nil]

Such a great act, wrapping around and back.

[@dustindawind7418]

One of the greatest one liners comedian! Rodney Dangerfield,Steve Wright, Mitch Herbert RIP , him , Anthony Jeselnik ,Milton Jones

[@noeldarby1635]

Gary Delaney is also a great 1liner comedian, particularly his more naughty stuff.

[@artomarto679]

Tim vine

[@communitycollegegenius9684]

Mitch Hedberg still hurts. Watching his old videos is like a celebration. Super funny, he's still alive while you're watching and you don't want it to end.

[@kevinpriest2668]

This always makes me laugh out loud.

[@kpec3]

Such a riot!😂😂😂😂

[@tomsmyth4836]

Modern day Steve Wright with slightly different tempo.....brilliant!

[@user-ob1oi7kn2w]

Very funny man indeed❤❤❤

[@marshalmcdonald7476]

Clever stuff.

[@fireball88173]

Brilliant for 8 minutes.

[@nickyvanderlinden8203]

king of one liners!

[@jeffsiegwart]

Funny stuff!

[@dennisnieradka6668]

Merry Christmas sir, and a Happy New Year's. Your cool.

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Hes funny.

[@FrankiesFire]

He should collab with Tim Vine

[@thebaron9059]

They could do half a line each!

[@3DCGdesign]

How do you remember all of them, and remember that you already said it so you don’t actually repeat yourself?! I actually saw Gary Delaney (whom I greatly respect as well) and he did repeat himself once in the same set and the audience just laughed for him again and it was delightful.

[@kylestubbs8867]

Honestly, I was waiting for him to say “Did I already do my deja vu joke?” again.

[@IbnBahtuta]

Richard and Judy. 🤣

[@hensonlaura]

Loved how the audience gasped! He only said what everyone thinks 🤭

[@genewilliams617]

Eye dew enjoy won liners!

[@papacamino2286]

I was thinking about doing a review

[@needfoolthings]

...swimming back to shore?

[@neil3372]

To wrote one liners is a gift i wish i could have, any books on the craft?

[@lowercasej23]

i find the punchlines first then work around that. i often hear common phrases that sound funny when the context is changed. for exmaple, tim vine's joke: "so i was playing football on an aeroplane and there i was, running up the wing..."

[@anthonygarner6194]

i think you can get the books in a library not just on a boat!! you can have that one neil.

[@tobyhart]

One liners: snorted By Charlie Sheen

[@tobyhart]

"writing one liners in two easy steps" by Adon Moore

[@JasonSchmidt-1979]

@@anthonygarner6194 noice!

[@user-jr7cx9zm1e]

Funny.

[@oppothumbs1]

Some nice one-liners and deadpan as Steven Wright but in Stewart's case one doesn't have to work so hard to get the jokes (followed by a visual joke).

[@seanmcquilkin8074]

I'm so lazy I got a award for it ..I got someone else to pick it up for me 😊

[@JMBoivin]

Sept 2020? These one liners have been going around for AGES

[@fuzzylogiceire]

Description says this is from 2008.

[@hensonlaura]

You're lazy and don't even bother to know the dates of what you're imprecisely criticizing. "Forever" 🙄

[@practicalplinking6133]

At least his dad taught him to swim.

[@bobrogers4019]

I could crush a grape!

[@thegraciefighter102]

I could wrestle an action man. He’s come a long way since crackerjack

[@TallSilentGuy]

I could rip a tissue!

[@ericb9426]

Funny guy. Too bad the sound guy can’t figure out the audience mikes. Distracting.

[@russky68]

Tim Vine

[@ricksmart2927]

Beatles moonlight bay

[@FloydMaxwell]

Richard is 64, Judy is 72

[@powerofone1645]

Han Solo's brother. Or is he?

[@davestinson2323]

Amazing comedian . Be better if he had more jokes on here as they all seem the same ones over the years

[@alm2187]

The one change I'd suggest for this act? Make the abandoned-by-dad jokes about having to go home on foot instead of swimming. A boy learns to run just to save time. That's the way to incorporate a running joke.

[@ricksmart2927]

Uh

[@peterbrown9456]

Audience sounds too young

[@stephenjones1380]

Yep, they were pretty terrible. Probably didn't get most of the jokes.

[@davidedwards3361]

If you see 1 of his shows, you've seen them all. He may change the order, but uses the same jokes.

[@pp312]

Do you expect him to come up with a whole new routine every time? He's moving from country to country, and he mixes the jokes just enough. Be kind.

[@richy69ify]

He didn't tell the one about the lolly pop lady

[@cruz1ale]

terrible suit, good comedian

[@grahamkearnon7853]

I liked the guy on Mock the Week but, he’s repeating all the same one liners, pity.

[@mattpalmer6071]

They all repeat bits from their sets James Acaster, Gary Delaney all of em.

[@kylestubbs8867]

Really? When did he do “I swam back to shore thinking” on _Mock the Week?_

[@kjamison5951]

It’s called ‘original material’. He’s not using jokes from other comedians. Comedians are like bands, they do a set and everyone likes to hear the classics.

[@allstarwatt7246]

@@kjamison5951 ✔

[@stevetaylor7403]

When you watch your favourite band at a gig don’t they repeat their old numbers.

[@-M0LE]

He needs new material

[@kevinmo8811]

The sound is horrible… it ruined the enjoyment.

[@stevecox7075]

Dreadful.

[@XXLaffinGravyXX]

That's NOT Stewart Francis...that guys an impostor...the real and only one could.. wrestle an Action Man!" "Ooh, I could test-drive a Tonka!" "Ooh, I could jump off a dolls' house!" "Ooh, I could duff a daffodil!" and "Ooh, I could rip a tissue!"