Stewart Lee - 2015-03-29 - Work in Progress - Oxford Playhouse

Stewart Lee live bootleg
Timecodes:
00:00 - Eclipse / Intro
04:34 - Hackney / Islam / People Bringing Their Friends
15:00 - Islamophobic Observational comedy
43:40 - Childhood / Urine
55:34 - Suicide
1:12:35 - 2nd Half - England flag / Paul Nuttall
1:48:50 - costa rica callback
2:00:30 - Encore
Also:
15:40 - Dapper Laughs
28:00 - stadium
30:15 - XFM DJ
31:00 - "you have to laugh at everything"
36:00 - Roy Chubby Brown's 3 islamophobic one-liners
1:47:45 - Robbie Williams
Official Stewart Lee DVDs and Downloads here: www.mediagarageproductions.co...

[@user-ki9qb2up3i]

This audio was an extra on the Comedy Vehicle Series 4 DVD. There were two shows from two consecutive nights, obviously they're not much different but here's the other one if you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/raKqqpeBfrumnNk

[@bobadams7654]

Many thanks

[@cessrcd]

Where can I buy this used for 3.50 or less? Asking for a Yugoslav friend

[@daniellarge9784]

Just heard this chap for the first time and he is simply a genius.

[@clemteetonball1250]

The distancing effect, more commonly known as the alienation or estrangement effect (first coined by German playwright Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956), has let itself go.

[@robhogan9279]

It's an incredibly high risk performance strategy that very few people seem to appreciate. Certainly not this audience.

[@greenaum]

@@robhogan9279 Yeah but Stew's been doing it most of his career, he's pretty good at it now, and his audience expects and understands it. That little "but Stew...." voice used to be Richard Herring. I think it comes from when they lived together for years. They both slowly developed that voice as a character, Rich uses it too in a different way. It's nice to have been a fan since they at least first got on TV, I've got DVDs of gigs, videos and podcasts, but never been to see either of them live.

[@stevewatts2967]

....p.......

[@robhogan9279]

@@greenaum I was actually quoting Stewart (he talks about Brechtian alienation in Comedy Vehicle, S4E1). And it is a shame to have to break character and explain that. But hopefully it will save you a long, tedious exchange of emails. (Just a joke, like on Top Gear!) Anyway you're right, I think he's successfully refined his audience to the point where most now do appreciate it, even if he'd never admit it in character. I've not seen quite as much of his stuff with Herring but I'm sure you're right about that "voice" being his as a legacy of those days - it does even sound like an impression of a 90's Herring.

[@Trenchfood]

Yeah... only it's not funny when you do it.

[@goyaassfilms4551]

Brilliant as always. Erving Goffman would have liked this.

[@walteredstates]

I'm not really clever enough to attempt a witty comment. I just f****n love his mind and writing ability and delivery ....I seem to look his stuff up every 4months or so - and crack up/have my mind blown all over again. Truly awesome

[@jimmorrison4291]

🤣🤣🤣

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

I have the best come back joke for your comment but its so good Stewart lee will steal it ! 😂😂🤣

[@walteredstates]

@@QIKUGAMES-QIKU ...oh, go on then! I'm - almost - 100%sure he doesn't read the comments under bootlegs of his shows!

[@greenaum]

He's a genius, it's nice to have him in a world that's so full of depressing, anti-intellectual deliberately stupid rubbish. He doesn't nearly make up for it though. Perhaps a stray nuke will come our way sometime soon. I wonder if that will date this comment or make me prescient?

[@startmakingsense2071]

Pppp ppppp pop pop p pop o pop

[@accolad]

Stewart lee just might be the best of the best .

[@keefbeef2002]

A level of performance that surpasses all understanding. Always a beautifully written, crafted piece of art.

[@ruthorrell9605]

Agree. He combines intellectual stuff with plain daft, even just stupid noises. LOL

[@plumduff3303]

As I've gone deaf and their are no subtitles, I have just spent the whole show looking at a photograph of a man's head.

[@kajenbop]

You missed out, it was really good!

[@cessrcd]

And it’s still better than Ricky Gervais

[@Bignewshound60]

Almost a decade on from this performance and it’s still in an unsurpassed class of its own.

[@mothhh2114]

at first i was like "no it hasnt been a decade" then i realised it almost has been a decade

[@bobadams7654]

The decade has let itself go.

[@encoreunefois1X]

Scary funny at times. I saw a video from 1991, he was just a kid really but already the same peculiarity we enjoy here was quite evident.

[@menacetohighsociety]

Funnily enough, I was listening to this in bed and did fall asleep around the Robbie Williams skit. His normal voice is quite relaxing.

[@MegaBrownbanana]

I fell asleep listening to this. That's a backhanded compliment.

[@graspingfagin]

He has a routine where he talks about the pop star Robbie Williams coming to one of his gigs. RW left half way through and apparently said that he thought Lee was good but that his voice would be better suited to sleep/relaxation tapes... Every night since I have fallen asleep to one Stewart Lee routine or another. Generally the ones where he doesn't go off into an angry tangent of shouting haha

[@jonhelmer8591]

I fell asleep reading your comment.

[@onlythebiggesthitsoneleano8461]

@@graspingfagin Have you tried Ricky Gervais saying the unsayable ?

[@teamcreambits]

Holy christ that Costa Rica routine. Possibly the most Stewart Lee that Stewart Lee has ever been.

[@KaryoSentiko]

I would really appreciate it if you could explain the reference. I have been a Stew fan for years, but every now and again, one of his more intellectual references will go straight over my head. Usually, it's a reference to something in politics from before I was born. I hate being exactly the kind of person Stew's talking about when he says a routine is "not for you"!!! Help an ignorant, come-in-error fan out!

[@PhatInAHat]

@@KaryoSentiko it's not an "intellectual reference" - at the start of the show he asks the audience to give suggestions for a random country which people generally don't know too much about, and one of the suggestions was Costa Rica and he said he'd use that one and it would come up later in the show. The routine itself is him making random nonsense up and pretending that it's a display of stereotypical Costa Rican culture, when actually it's not and really he and the general public have no idea what is. It's a riff on a few things: firstly how nationalism often ends up as mere performative displays of low resolution cliches and basic cultural stereotypes; secondly it highlights how ignorant the public often are of many places around the world and how easy it is to fall into xenophobia and mockery of other cultures' traditions; and third it shows that even a foreigner's basic knowledge of another country's stereotypes doesn't necessarily mean that the foreigner actually has any significant or real understanding of that other country and its way of life..

[@KaryoSentiko]

@@PhatInAHat Oh my gosh, you're right!!! That's the problem with watching a video in parts over a couple of days, I completely forgot that! Thank you so much for pointing it out! Everything immediately falls into place.

[@matthewstone1362]

@@PhatInAHat ooooo get u.

[@gazriley624]

This is brilliant haven't laughed so hard in ages

[@BLINDTUBEMARES]

Stewart Lee's bootleg has let itself go

[@DavidAddis]

Nice to see that, "28 years old I was" is still doing the rounds, about 28 years after I first heard it.

[@hpebackwards]

"I wish people would think of some of the hidden costs" lmao

[@paulharrion3398]

The skit about the England flags was fecking funny! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@TheMaxpower222]

Stewart Lee is the new Jesus, 4 stars.

[@FUNKINETIK]

Are you sure? I’m only questioning your statement because I thought I was. P E A C E : )

[@FUNKINETIK]

@Grandson Of Cherve oh shit - I must have let myself go. I’ve been learning how to rap lately, soon you’ll see me on the err Top of The Pops.

[@uriuriuri]

Ty for the upload. Brilliant to hear the rough drafts of some of his later routines in here.

[@paulembleton1733]

In a class of his own.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

1:48:12 I totally agree. Sometimes I'm off in another world listening to this!

[@nimbat997]

Brilliant! The master... To my mind, anyway. ❤️

[@bobadams7654]

Totally agree.

[@kasperg5634]

Brilient, I am crying stock.

[@NicholasBerry-ku9rd]

I too am weeping meat and/or vegetable juices.

[@bellis6323]

The Costa Rica piece was just so funny. Classic Stew.

[@markanthonycoliinson873]

The costa rica radio part where he loses it had me rolling around on the floor pissing myself.

[@nigelcarren]

Tonight was a toss-up between listening to this or listening to a Deacon Blue album! On balance... I am both embarrassed and depressed that I find myself in this situation.

[@jpc443]

Mate, I'm going to acknowledge this,even if nobody else will. I went to see Deacon Blue a couple of years ago in Melbourne and they certainly had let them selves go!

[@badge133joy]

Tough decision make ..don't envy you

[@darthscouser5255]

Do you remember the jungle canyon rope bridges?

[@flightimage845]

Well, I’ll give it to you straight, like a pear cider that’s made from 100% pears. Yes, I do remember the jungle canyon rope bridges!

[@Steven-zq6pu]

Me too. A shortage of funding at both National AND Regional level !

[@amoontube]

thanks Stu - brilliant !

[@nickclarkuk]

Off to see Basic Lee, November 2022 London . Can’t wait !!

[@NicholasBerry-ku9rd]

His Roy 'Chubby' Brown sounds uncannily like Les Dennis' impersonation of Mavis Wilton/Riley of Coronation Street fame.

[@EscapeFromDaSystem]

I like this live set more than the dvd it seemed way more fluid lol

[@baTonkaTruck]

“Like a sort of cheese death-mask from the Renaissance.” Fucking hell.

[@dylanmcgowan3932]

I am probably at odds with Stewart Lee on a wide range of political and social positions but doesn’t stop him being one of my favourite comedians. I guess it’s because regardless of his BBC links , he is clearly anti establishment in the broader sense.

[@ricardomoonbeam8530]

Looks like all 28 of his fans have commented here. Great work.

[@surenmoodley7744]

😹

[@ricardomoonbeam8530]

@@Hartley_Hare he hasn't.

[@ricardomoonbeam8530]

@@Hartley_Hare a little peeved maybe...but definitely not 'somewhat'...and not about Stewart Lee. No.I'm 'a little' peeved because my wife sat on my glasses.

[@jonhelmer8591]

I think you will find that the great Stuart Lee actually has 29 fans. I am the proof.

[@ricardomoonbeam8530]

@@jonhelmer8591 I liked him too, well, until he let himself go...

[@ObscureMusicObsession]

I never laughed so hard at "pie jelly" before!

[@Imalrightma]

Genius made me think that i too am indeed Costa Rican but had no idea until now

[@atomiccritter6492]

possibly the only comedian to somehow mention Minecraft and bondage sex in the same sentence

[@LuDux]

Exactly how I remember Radio Costarica in the 80s under Thatcher

[@liamfisher4191]

Superb

[@derekspitz9225]

Gripper Stebson's let himself go.

[@SANDSCORCHER]

🤣 Oh my, that caught me unawares.

[@davidfbenko]

That is a great photo of Stew.

[@kevinmcinerney1959]

I hate stand up. I would pay to see this guy. I would travel to see this guy.

[@kevinmcinerney1959]

@Grandson Of Cherve You are quite right. There is no way to be a consumer of entertainment without physically being in the presence of the performer. Silly of me.

[@JulianDiaz-Tpt]

Genius.

[@MarkXHolland]

'I know this works, I've done it 70 times - it's your fault'

[@pjauthur9869]

Thank you so much for the uploading these I love comparing them to the televised / recorded standup. Thank you so much

[@ben6993]

1:55:55 Peak Stewart Lee 😂

[@chadderton]

Loved this, thanks for sharing it. That bit about used condoms reminds me of Frank Skinner talking about prostitutes leaving used condoms in the alleyway behind his house, and saying his dog used to eat them. He said it was the equivalent of humans eating a losenge...

[@user-ki9qb2up3i]

I just read March of the Lemmings and he cites Frank Skinner as an influence for the dripping routine

[@datgrrl5698]

Quality pet, cheers for the upload... shame about the toxic comments though... you have my deepest sympathies...

[@bobadams7654]

Toxic comments have let themselves go

[@belindablunderbus1365]

These lines about Stewart Lee letting himself go have let themselves go.

[@KittenBasher69]

What's impressive about your comment is how it attempts to deviate from the crowd while in fact stooping lower.

[@belindablunderbus1365]

@@KittenBasher69 thank you.

[@KittenBasher69]

@@belindablunderbus1365 Your feigned appreciation of my accurate critique on the doleful nature of your comment is equally deplorable in terms of your original creative deficiency I articulated.

[@belindablunderbus1365]

@@KittenBasher69 thank you. :)

[@belindablunderbus1365]

@@KittenBasher69 how kind.

[@bustedfender]

The drummer from ZZTop, Frank Beard, who is in fact the only member of the band NOT to actually have a beard has let himself go.

[@Sparks127]

Comedy De-Construction has let itself go. And I love it.

[@bobadams7654]

It makes me so angly.

[@benjaminwilliams2264]

Morrisey has let himself go. Never mind love them both

[@justinleslie1]

“Stop wandering about!”

[@ianmatthews5566]

I really enjoyed the Costa Rican beat boxing

[@teabagmcpick889]

Rod Liddle's Shipham's paste covered frenulum has let himself go Edit: A couple of hours later - Costa Rica, well I never.

[@pauldonaghey7986]

Simply genius..

[@bitchoflivingblah]

Stewart Lee: the Lee Mack of cultural relativism' hahahahhahahahahhaha

[@julieatkinson5910]

Love him

[@julieatkinson5910]

Watched him years ago but never really knew why. He is funny but in a different way. I got addicted. Lol

[@weedancer3142]

"Ridiculous euphemism for despair"

[@NathanJayMusic]

20:55 sounds like Richard Herring's TMRNJ character

[@greenaum]

Yep! He does it a lot, and it's a character Rich used to play a lot, now Stew just has to raise his pitch and strain his voice a bit. I think they developed the character between them when they lived together and would be humourous amidst the poverty of beginning a comedy career. They even mentioned it on, I think, the last episode of TWMRNJ. They did a swap of roles over Stew's rubbish jumper, Rich said something like "Now I am the high-status character" and started abusing Stew in exactly the same way. It's a character who's not as smart as Stew and doesn't always have correct and logically valid opinions like Stew does. Now I think he attributes the character more to being the British public, the average man. Or rather the average man the media portray, in real life the public aren't nearly as thick and ignorant as the media think they are. Either The Sun trying to convince working-class people to evolve into Morlocks and live in the sewers, or the BBC like Christian missionaries on some cannibal island, trying to save the souls of the poor savages, by getting them to eat low-fat margarine instead of human flesh. Either way, it's supposed to be terrible, but Stew only calls on that character, like he's moving his hand and pretending it's talking, for short bits, just to incorrectly counterpoint some point he's trying to make. In that way it also represents the audience. Really I suppose it represents everyone in the world who isn't Stew.

[@colinellis9688]

I couldn't hear the encore because of the doppler effect of the urine part, anti aliasing across the news bit.

[@juliasnookie4607]

I am going to be late for work now.

[@Geokinkladze]

I love how Stewart flirts with the notion of supplying islamaphobic comedy without actually delivering. He's like the Hermes of anti-islamic comedy.

[@silverapples75]

Excellent name. 👏👏

[@jonhelmer8591]

Quality comment! The only reason nobody else has complimented you on your comment is that sadly nobody cares what Stuart Lee says.

[@kurisensei]

Hermes has let himself go a bit

[@liamhughes1532]

I thought the point was to do jokes about the subject of Islam, and very specifically not be phobic about it, to clearly demonstrate ya don't need to be phobic to be funny, two different things....but maybe I totally misunderstood the whole point of the show 🤦‍♂️🤣

[@andrewbowen6875]

Know your audience. Jehovah’s Witnesses have long been the butt of jokes and I don’t recall any burning effigies. Ian Hislop told a funny story of opening the door to a JW on his doorstep and upon recognising him the JW said “Have I got good News for you”

[@onlythebiggesthitsoneleano8461]

Bootlegged uploads of Stewart Lee shows with poor sound quality have let themselves go.

[@jonathangiles189]

I suppose I always knew his cat wasn't named Jeremy Corbyn, but it's still somewhat disappointing to have it confirmed.

[@matthewstone1362]

If jack dee owned a spiraliser.

[@DrRichardScott]

The diarrhoea joke is completely transformed from what it had been a couple of months earlier when it was a media-pointed joke about Jeremy Corbyn

[@northisalwaysup9754]

The Jeremy Corbyn joke has let itself go

[@monkeytron5061]

There is not one moment in this that wouldn’t make it funnier if Richard Herring suddenly came on and said “Wait wait wait, what’s all this I’ve found here about you hiding your finances and killing a baby duck here Stu?”

[@somethingness]

It's too much comedy to take in one go. I had to take a break in between. Good thing I wasn't in the audience.

[@kensvideos1]

3223 the transition didnt work because he didnt do "the little run"

[@greenaum]

Is his haranguing the audience about 7:00 in genuine? Cos I know it's something he's done before, and he's said (I've read a couple of his books, the annotated standup routines where the annotations are longer than the act and what you buy the book for) that these routines are written down exactly and performed the same every night. But then I also half-remember bits where he genuinely brought the audience round with a bit of genuine explanation, trying to make a heartfelt connection, and employing his lecturing and disdainful Stewart Lee character who coincidentally is exactly like Stewart Lee the real person in every way. So anyway was it for real or did he just put it in because it was going to be 3 episodes worth of stuff and he wanted to get everyone on board from the start? Nobody reading this is going to know the answer, are they, except Stew himself, so I love your work Stew if you're there. Otherwise I suppose we could all have a little chat about it.

[@bitchoflivingblah]

Yes he has many variations upon this - Content Provider - his zenith in my opinion, is replete with audience haranguing.

[@pseudonayme7717]

Hi Stew. Glad to see you are still commenting on your own videos looking for feedback 👍

[@matthewstone1362]

2hrs of condescension.

[@markszawlowski867]

Right comment, wrong video :))))) Excuse all :)))

[@devanman7920]

Jesus I seen the thumbnail and the numbers quick and thought he passed away...man that was scary.

[@colinellis9688]

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[@dionysiaex5538]

Captain Pugwash has let himself go.

[@jonhelmer8591]

Do you mean "cast adrift"?

[@cessrcd]

Comedy's answer to Rod Liddle doesn't have enough ham fat on his chin...

[@richardcrompton6009]

Costa Rica routine has let himself go …

[@rewmitchell5020]

Oh Gary Wilmott's let himself go

[@jamesallen4050]

I once urinated on my Grandad's face. I would say this segment brought back the memory. But it didn't.

[@MegaGreatpretender]

KD Lang has let himself go

[@michaelshand-wilde4284]

Jeannie Krankie has let herself go.

[@simonwilton3546]

Its a shame he was too young to have formed a trio with Hale and Pace, what could have been.

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Can't hear it Properly ? I'm missing Half of it among the giggles 😭

[@greenaum]

That's bootlegs for you, recorded from a seat onto someone's phone, if you're lucky they'll wear a proper mic they smuggled in, otherwise you're lucky if they point the phone's mic in the right direction. You're not getting the benefit of Stew's mic going directly into a mixing panel with a couple of mics on the audience to mix in the laughter at a level where you can still hear Stew perfectly.

[@verysurvival]

Prince Andrew has really let himself go

[@morejuan1428]

Stuart, you lack respect. The Toilet Duck is an endangered species

[@josholeary1796]

That whole Costa Rica bit is amazing

[@eepee_eepee]

thumbnail made me think he died T_T

[@matthewstone1362]

Do you remember calling for deplatforming do ya do ya.

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

K.D Laing has let herself go.

[@jpc443]

I get it. 🙂👌

[@matthewstone1362]

Calling for censorships let itself go.

[@j.cgallagher7092]

Rod Liddle. He's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one.

[@greenaum]

Good grief, women will marry anybody these days.

[@j.cgallagher7092]

@@greenaum kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3-loaqZg7Wib9E

[@bobadams7654]

Brecht has let himself go.

[@Mancheguache]

Morrisey has let himself go

[@Mancheguache]

@@jlc7841 hark at 'er

[@johnrandall6301]

I'm just wondering how helpful it is to him to have someone upload a bootleg of an entire gig just as he is hoping to sell tickets for a new tour - his livelihood. Do some thinking people!

[@cessrcd]

You're the only one who realised...🙆‍♀️

[@urmumsbaps]

Do you think that any of the people listening to this have the capability to go back in time and buy tickets for this show so they can hear it at the source? If not, then his livelihood won't be affected by this being here. If anything, it's likely to make him sell more tickets for his tour. Do some thinking John!

[@johnrandall6301]

Oh dear...@@urmumsbaps

[@weedancer3142]

Toxic to weasels

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Can't hear it properly to understand it ? The crowd get in the way of his Audio... In a nice way the Sound is Terrible especially when it's the same each time in this venue... Speak up 🔊

[@datgrrl5698]

Maybe you cannae hear this because the government is spreading chem trails above mommy's house to genetically alter your DNA...or the UFO's are idling outside to take you away for a probing...wear your helmet for fucks sake

[@LESFORPREZ]

He's good, but he's no Lee Mack.

[@normanno8514]

who would have guessed that people from oxford dont actually know anything

[@fredmercury1314]

Do you think the liberals realise he's mocking them?

[@The_Mighty_Fiction]

How tragic is it being Richard Herring's straight man?