Stewart Lee and Jonathan Ross, 'Mondo Rosso', BBC2, 1995

From an episode of the 1995 BBC2 series 'Mondo Rosso'. Guest reviewer Stewart Lee joins Jonathan Ross to discuss exploitation films 'For Your Height Only', 'Freaks' and 'Chained For Life'. Then they have a game of Twister and do a 'Pulp Fiction' gag. Simpler times.

[@tychothefriendlymonolith]

I can remember staying up late, hiding from my parents to watch this. I'd sneak downstairs and turn on the telly, and sit really close with my head against the speaker, eating jaffa cakes. I was 28 years old.

[@shinjinobrave]

+edocronian All kids in jokes are 28 years old... WHEN WILL YOU LEARN?

[@politure]

Then you got off the bus, ah

[@damienx0x]

edocronian Hahahhaa

[@SANDSCORCHER]

😆

[@pompeymik]

😂😂😂👍

[@TheAlmightyAss]

I love Stewart Lees approach to film reviewing and commentary. He gives it to you straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pears.

[@illiteratethug3305]

*pear

[@Torahboy1]

The BBC has let Stewart Lee go

[@Loneman_OG]

@@illiteratethug3305 One massive pear making all the cider in the world? A PEAR YOU CAN SEE FROM SPACE?! 🍐🍐

[@edisdead1]

"Probably because they where afraid it was going to fall into the hands of people who would laugh at it" haha quality.

[@amiller3784]

That was the line of segment.. It’s funny but oh shit I am laughing at it... oh Stew... you got us again..

[@missolympiabinewski]

Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic has really gotten himself together and is looking very attractive. Good for him.

[@johnmason1239]

just proves you cant trust the metropolitan liberal elite however they look like

[@herbertvonzinderneuf8547]

God, but I would sell a kidney to read one original Stewart Lee comment.

[@davidsheffied]

He’s much nicer in real life.

[@JordyShowWalks]

Stewart Lee hadn't let himself go here

[@-xirx-]

Lol

[@stevenuuu1212]

Friggin' hell, Stew is gorgeous.

[@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp]

Eskimo face from the 90s has not let himself go yet.

[@zukochapman]

I fancy Stewart Lee so much I have this bookmarked to watch at least once a week. Fit.

[@alkapowportstar7808]

a finger of fudge is good enough to give a girl a treat!

[@dustyboi8975]

8 years later you have to admit time hasn’t been kind to him

[@jamesmason8436]

He was a handsome devil, but he's aged terribly, bless him.

[@jamesmason8436]

​@@dustyboi8975 this was 28 years ago, and he was late 20's here. But yeah, he looks older than his 54 years now.

[@samcad-ho3ze]

I get the feeling that the borderline narcissist Ross really can’t hide his resentment towards Lee for his smouldering good looks.

[@patriciafierro-newton8285]

Stewart Lee looks gorgeous!

[@MisterF_1984]

Morrissey actually looks quite good here!

[@muggedinmadrid]

they both look so young, trim and handsome here... stew looks so pretty. like a shiny 1990s rent boy! he he

[@rahulkemp6489]

+muggedinmadrid Ha! If u really want to get yourself down, watch "Stewart Lee on the future of comedy Channel 4 News". Time has not been kind to Radco Miladic..

[@patkawasaki]

Rahul Kemp yeah, it's really odd how someone looked younger twenty plus years ago. You're really lucky to have the Internet and countless women's magazines that make that exact point over and over again.

[@rahulkemp6489]

patkawasaki hush ya mouth!

[@mrprosser848]

Stewart lee looks thin and content...and thin

[@thegrandmuftiofwakanda]

Ratko Mladić's looking well.

[@julienguieu5636]

To paraphrase an old vaudeville act, "For Your Height Only" is like "For Your Eyes Only"... on acid.

[@kitredKitredson]

I'm glad Stewart Lee's career suffered enormously before he became mainstream again. Can you imagine if he'd continued to be smug without pretending it is an act? HE WANTS THE MOON ON A STICK. Of course, they're all moons on a stick by the time I've finished with them etc.

[@steventhomasson]

Jesus, I'd love to play Twister with Stewart Lee here

[@T800System]

quite amazing to see stewart lee getting interviewed by jonathon ross. He wouldn't do that now

[@Destro7000]

Ratko Mladić has let himself go

[@Evergreen0021]

Jonathan Ross can't handle the lack of jungle canyon wope bwidges.

[@CJJC]

Danny Boyle’s looking physically perfect in every way.

[@xbulelo]

I’d leave my girlfriend for Stewart Lee here. Geez - one of the best comedians of all time in my opinion too. Love him.

[@Torahboy1]

He’s good. But he’s no Tom O’Connor.

[@onlythebiggesthitsoneleano8461]

Are you a sardine

[@lukemcevoy2183]

"There's only one way to prove this - bring out the gimp" I miss the 90s

[@benangell225]

Well that got progressively more surreal, glad they cut the video off just as it peaked

[@IStehSHIT]

Nick cage looks good here

[@dontmakelemonade]

what a perfect moment to end on.

[@vermilliongecko]

Rather insulting to the people with learning disabilities to compare them with Michael Barrymore's guests....

[@Tautolonaut]

Was hoping for Richard Herring in a gimp suit at the end there... or at least Rowland Rivron.

[@MrBaronCabron]

absolutely beautiful man.

[@davedave4918]

Damn, Lee was handsome!

[@Littlehickish]

3:29 yeh I’d react to Johnathan Ross like that too

[@LrnecBuma]

I hope this resurfaces so he can write a new show to tour this year and we can then say hes let himself go again.

[@illiteratethug3305]

6:49 "Look Stew, if you don't want to be here..."

[@RexOrwell]

I lasted until 4:42. Roughly where Ross pokes fun at the poor people in that film. But then, he'd already had a pop at someone and got up my nose before he'd finished his opening. It's all he's good for. How the blokes in work continuously is beyond me.

[@mrmeerkat1096]

He really does have that decaprio look.

[@daniellaker92]

Sprout faced

[@unconvincingrebel]

Jonothan Ross became a bellend in the 2000s like Jeremy Clarkson

[@Littlehickish]

Kcuf elgoog what did he do? (I completely agree but don’t know why)

[@ackerjawaka4742]

​@@Littlehickishwell for starters he started hanging around with Russel Brand and it was downhill from there 🍀

[@paulrouhan7288]

I think we can safely bury any nostalgia for 90s lads culture

[@vooveks]

Totally. You kind of wonder what they were thinking. I mean, Stewart Lee holds himself up as a beacon of political correctness and this is just your typical lazy humour, basically just laughing at people with disabilities, that he does whole damning routines about nowadays. Uncomfortable viewing for non-morons.

[@jimmycampbell78]

Surely they were commenting on the films, and not generally about 'people with disabilities'.

[@thevision8764]

@Scubapig. Stewart Lee was not laughing at the people in Freaks; he was making a pointed remark at Jonathan Ross because he is exactly the type of person who would laugh at it. Hence why he says, " banned for a long time, wasn't it - probably because they were worried it was going to fall into the hands of people who'd laugh at it.2 At which point he fixes him with a stare. Did you actually watch it or are you just incapable of rational thought?

[@vooveks]

+The Vision Um...There's plenty of bits in that where he's joining in on the jokes, mainly in the commentary on the tiny James bond guy, so don't make out like it's all knowingly ironic and Stewart Lee wasn't complicit. Besides which, I didn't mention Freaks at all, so you appear not to have read my comment before going all mental about it. But to answer your question, yes, I'm incapable of rational thought and incredibly stupid and I didn't watch it.

[@thevision8764]

At which point during the review of the Bond film parody did Stewart Lee make fun of a disabled person? There are "PLENTY OF BITS", as you say, so no doubt you will have a plethora of examples from which to choose.

[@Littlehickish]

Wow 5:02 yes stu! This is why I love him

[@samcad-ho3ze]

Phyllida Hickish agree I love him for this moment.

[@ideadragon]

Stewart Lee was verily a man of wax.

[@charlesread3581]

For your height only is available on dvd from the wonderful label Mondo Macabro

[@ivorbigonee]

gervais defo tried to copy Stewart lee

[@illiteratethug3305]

The young comics have been in...

[@crissieroserose]

hes so pretty

[@andiroidYT]

THE GIMP WAS PAUL ROSS. Oh, you'd guessed?

[@illiteratethug3305]

HA!

[@bobnlouie]

Why is Dara O'Briain's head on the desk?

[@vivavaldez87]

Gimp in a box?! I'm glad I was 8 years old and playing with my legos when this was on TV!

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

Lego. Singular.

[@philpheburbs]

well that suddenly got weird at the end...

[@annother3350]

But they cut it off before the gimp bummed them!

[@nikkik3263]

Stuart was handsome back in the day

[@Georgieastra]

As was Jonathan Ross who seems to have morphed into Frankie Howerd.

[@Littlehickish]

Can someone re upload this video but with Ross cut out?

[@MrPKenneally]

Terry Christian should've at least tried to hold himself together

[@lordwallace224]

+Pat K Terry Christian lost all self and public respect the moment he got into broadcasting. And those 80's street-punks with the coiffured talking points have let themselves go....

[@michaelhollingworth1757]

If it turned out that Stewart Lee had killed many times, I don't know if i would be all that surprised.

[@edisdead1]

Sorry to break your cliché Stewart Lee reference, but Kim Jon Ill is dead which makes your quote (as Stewart Lee himself would say) structurally compromised, i would also like to apologize for Carlos Mencia-ing Stewart Lee's style, and peace be with you fellow KZbinr.

[@illiteratethug3305]

My deeeek don't work man

[@samnicholson5051]

Interesting to see what Michael McIntyre looked like before he let himself go.

[@Magicalfluidprocess]

Dougray Scott has let himself go

[@eugenemurray2940]

Yeah... Chained for life... And we all laughed during her dream.. Being free at last... To love... And be loved....😪

[@oblodoblodob]

A plate of taramasalata garnished with two almonds and a shock of roughage salad hasn't yet let itself go

[@mickkennedy1344]

Matt Damon telling jokes -- interviewed by Julian Clary.

[@KKAkuoku]

Comedy Central could have easily poached Jonathan Ross to do an American version of this around 1997 or '98

[@dooniskea]

Whats Tanita Tikaram doing in the gents?

[@terimorris6394]

Steward was so handsome here! Looked like a models face

[@jacko717]

Sue Perkins looks well without her glasses.

[@DiseasedMrT]

Holy shit Stewart Lee was a looker back in the day...

[@BroskiRIP]

I should know.... I had him.

[@AppropriationIsMe]

What a rarity. VCRs, those that press the record button and KZbin are comedy fans' saviours. I want to know why they started playing twister.

[@MardiKivMusic]

It was the 90's, everyone was playing twister. The Pope, paul gascoigne, prince...all the people.

[@Torahboy1]

K D Lang meets The Wosser. No wonder she turned

[@GhastlyCretin]

@Misteryowl Not a fan of the apostrophe eh?

[@chrisofnottingham]

More like 00 gauge than 007

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Harry H Corbett is looking well

[@HatfulofHallow]

And if a comet came and killed the lot of us. In the scheme of things, it would be no great loss.. Jonathan Ross

[@edwardspencer-small7021]

Max Headroom has let himself go.

[@Misteryowl]

@GhastlyCretin85 Absolutely. When it's used correctly. 90's is incorrect. Bye.

[@TheMagicCardTraderUK]

Katy Brand's let herself go. Or will do in 10 years.

[@simonball2855]

100% Pear’s

[@JackT13]

“Cept’ the gadgets are all shit”

[@alanjameshorner]

Terry Christian has let himself go.

[@21stCen]

The faster that this is put away the better

[@jothbaines]

Kim Jong Il has let himself go.

[@OstrichNipples]

Why is Richard Lewis putting on a funny accent here?

[@Neil2022]

When he had hair.

[@SingWhileYouMay]

The Ironman It was before he got fat and depressed.

[@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2]

These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re General Ratko Mladić, who’s let himself go like a pear cider made from 100% of the UKIP’s rap singers. It’s political correctness gone mad.

[@Misteryowl]

@natmanprime 90s

[@jeffstone2136]

Slowpoke Rodriguez, somnolent gun-toting cousin of Speedy Gonzalez, has let himself go.

[@stevedave8891]

Stew playing the fame game, bet he hated himself after this. I do after watching it.

[@becausewemust]

KD Lang hs let herself go

[@leesmith9299]

Safeway

[@chuck1804]

dagnut "And an amazing hypocrite" ...how so?

[@dagnut]

Political correctness?

[@dagnut]

And an amazing hypocrite