STEWART LEE | ANTI ISLAMIC STAND UP | REACTION

[@davehollingworth5537]

Stewart Lee is a brilliantly funny and brilliantly clever comedian. He gives it to you straight, like pear cider made from 100% pears

[@bluetoad2668]

He's let himself go though

[@ffaker]

100% *pear* 😂

[@donaldmcleod6869]

I love that comment and thank goodness he hasn't let himself go, I've seen him live a few times I met him for a short period he's just a diamond, Donald Glasgow.😂

[@andyedwards9504]

100% pear. Not pears Mr. Magners. 100% satisfaction 0% disappointment. Well. Let me tell you. I am disappointed. You stole that phrase!

[@glendurrant6023]

Observational comedy about observational comedy. Lee is a fucking genius.

[@philipachand]

This is lovely. I've been watching Lee for so long that I forget what it was ever like to wonder what he's doing and whether any of his little bits of printed paper are real. It's vicariously exciting to watch a new fan go through those phases of confusion, horror, and relief!

[@MadeleineTakam]

This reminds me of when I took my sister who has lived all her life in République du Cameroun and was over here on holiday to see Stewart Lee in Cardiff.

[@ulture]

awesome to see more people finding Stew. He gives it to us straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pears.

[@bobhawxwell1606]

Stu has put on a ton of weight since he stopped doing observational comedy ...

[@NickHunter]

one could say he's let himself go

[@simonwinwood]

nice one

[@stewartpowell8351]

It was beautiful to see you smiling along at this. I can assure you that even if the references were a bit old for you, those of us (so much older, sadly) do enjoy them, but can ensure you that we agree with the ideas he is stating.

[@willowcolios5248]

I’ve just read Norris McWhirter’s Wikipedia page. It’s made the routine retrospectively even funnier.

[@patrickquinlan3056]

Thank you. I enjoyed that. He is brave and ruthless while being very funny.

[@user-qy2yw5ed3d]

@patrickquinlan3056 Brave? How is punching down a brave act? ......and ruthless 🤣 For a definition of brave, look up Salman Rushdie.

[@pietzsche]

@@user-qy2yw5ed3d Lee is both braver and a better writer.

[@simonwinwood]

❤ the joke about The Daily Mail, "fair and balanced since the 1930s." The joke is it's a nauseating right wing reactionary dishrag of a paper that in the 1930s featured Adolf Hitler on the front cover. and this Hitler chap has got a lot of great ideas, we should listen to him type editorial 😢

[@UKreactions]

Yeah The Daily Mail is a sorry excuse for a newspaper it’s down there with The Sun

[@MrKeefy1967]

@@UKreactions I think it's actually worse because everyone knows the Sun is a joke whereas the Mail, and presumably the people who read it, think it's a real newspaper. Although readers of the Sun will consider themselves VERY working-class and think it's the newspaper of the working-class, when in fact it's very much editorially right-wing and therefore feeds right-wing political thinking into the working-class often without them realizing they're being brain-washed.

[@howardchambers9679]

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[@ModoBro]

and was repulsed by the idea of taking in jewish immigrants fleeing from Hitler in the lead up to WW2

[@keithbaker4589]

The Mail is a horrible newspaper 99% of the time. I'm not defending it, I despise it. However, what it did with the Stephen Lawrence case, when it named and shamed the suspects on its front page at a time when the police or no one else would, was good stuff and should be remembered. Every dog has its day.

[@seansersmylie]

All of his quotes are usually made up for effect. The Argentina address was a reference about the nazis who fled there.

[@DanAvenell]

And the quote was attributed to Norris McWhirter who was on telly in the 1970s/80s on The Record Breakers as an expert from the Guinness Book Of Records. Who was very right wing in real life, like them Nazis.

[@MrKeefy1967]

@@DanAvenell And Norris had a twin brother Morris, who the IRA murdered.

[@donaldb1]

@@DanAvenell In particular the McWhirters set up the "Freedom Association" which was a strong supporter of Apartheid South Africa and frequent critic of the BBC for supposed left wing bias.

[@Zoltanlouis2009]

​@MrKeefy1967 his twin brother was Ross

[@MrKeefy1967]

@@Zoltanlouis2009 Yeh it was - I got Morris and Norris in my head! They were identical twins, weren't they?

[@weswheel4834]

Norris McWhirter and his brother were famous for being involved in the Guinness Book of Records. But also were political and on the right of British politics.

[@101dannybhoy]

That's putting it mildly! They were far-right white supremacist.

[@MadeleineTakam]

@@101dannybhoy I met Norris McWhirter at a dinner at Magdalen College. I did tell him he was one of the nicest Nazi’s I had ever met. He didn’t find that funny though. No sense of humour.

[@andyedwards9504]

The clever joke about the Nuremberg Argentina postmark timeline was genius but lost on many.

[@chardywork]

The Joe Pasquale joke is good

[@Ianbolton]

what about the joke he did that Joe Pasquale couldn't steal?

[@chardywork]

@@Ianbolton That *is* the Joe Pasquale joke

[@Ianbolton]

@@chardywork Haha 👍i think there's also a 'i saw joe pasquale in my garden' joke

[@MadeleineTakam]

You will have to read a lot of British and world history to fully understand all the jokes Thandi. What appear to be throw away lines are pinpoint cutting asides on the hypocrisy and lies of the establishment.

[@weswheel4834]

Roy Chubby Brown is an "old school" comedian who tells jokes that many people find offensive nowadays. Stewart told 2 jokes in his style (but a lot less offensively) and then gave an example of an actual joke. edit: Okay, the 3rd one was more of a point than a joke.

[@donaldmcleod6869]

I've seen Stuart Lee live quite a few times for me nobody can touch him ,60year from Glasgow.😂

[@jodietravis8845]

Lovely to watch her reaction!

[@peterbulloch4611]

Love watching you enjoying Stew for the first time. 'Braveheart' is particularly brilliant

[@nathankilburn1953]

It's one of the best bits I've seen by any comedian

[@NickHunter]

in fucking Glasgow, my days....

[@muninraven3327]

The follow up Bin Laden piece to this set is so good in how it is constructed, as a comedy routine. I hope you find the time to experience it. ❤

[@srodgers66]

Stewart Lee has been on Richard Herring's Live at Leicester Square theatre Podcast. I don't think anything happened between them, they just went their different ways.

[@NickHunter]

ruh huh luh stuh puh

[@geoffwhiles8223]

You are a breath of fresh air Thandi. Chubby Brown is obnoxious, but it's all personal choice. Stewart Lee is an amazing comedian. Very different. I have subscribed to your channel, I like it so much!

[@stub6378]

Chubby brown is an old school comic that I used to listen to (and find hilarious when I was about 14). This was entirely down to the fact he swore a lot. Now I’m older chubby brown isn’t really my cup of tea. He’s been going for years. His audience is….well….they have the brains of a 14 year olds.

[@paulbromley6687]

It wasn’t Richard Herring, it was John Fish, or was it Alex Salmond, he should watch out Stewart Lee he could be accused of committing a Hake crime,

[@davetye]

oh for cod's sake

[@howardchambers9679]

​@@davetyeeel always have a plaice in our hearts

[@lukesters7234]

John Fish…he’s not a real fish

[@Doublebasist]

It was Richard Herring.

[@howardchambers9679]

@@Doublebasist 🙄

[@JAYDUBYAH29]

Lovely to hear your accent. 💜 I am South African, been in the US for thirty years and gave my daughter Thandi as her middle name.

[@thomasmount3530]

Bless your beautiful heart!!! The Daily Mail paper joke was an accusation of racist journalism. The letters 'to the BBC' from Nuremburg and then Argentina is a reference to the fact that the Nazis all quietly moved to Argentina after the war and still have a thriving community there that nobody talks about. Roy Chubby Brown has been doing live comedy since the 70s and he was vulgar then, these days his material is unbelievably crude - he gets away with it because he's got a big heart but if his audience is white racists, he's always got a TONNE of material for them. And he sounds JUST like that. Awesome reaction videos, keep them coming!

[@MT-kx2uc]

Daily Mail supported fascists in the 1930s. And Nazis didn't quietly go to Argentina. The US helped them escape via Rat lines after the war.

[@PaulAJacksonMusic]

From the same show, "Audience Analysis In Sheffield" is great.

[@mikmook4781]

His "Patronising liberal delusion" is one of his best. I think he does have a beef with Joe Pasquale. I recall him doing a routine about Joe Pasquale stealing a joke. Might've been a cheese dream. Not sure.

[@andrewgrant6516]

All double acts end up hating each other. Little and Large, Cannon and Ball, Simon and Garfunkel. People grow apart, especially when they are continually forced together. Lee and Herring are still good friends. They're just good friends who got sick of the sight of each other and did something about it.

[@daved2352]

Yeah if you watch a lot of both of them you can see how they actually really influenced each others comedic voices. There are some bits in I think Carpet Remnant World that Stew does that I noticed as being very Herring in tone and could easily have been performed by Richard to similar effect.

[@karlquinn6571]

You forgot husband and wife

[@mrbtapir]

Hale and Pace?

[@NickHunter]

Some do, certainly not all. Morcambe and Wise, Rick and Ade, Ronnie and Ronnie, Fry and Laurie

[@willowcolios5248]

@@daved2352Stew’s fake“letters to the BBC” is similar in tone to Richard’s “I saw former England manager Gareth Southgate yesterday, and he calls it RHLSTP”.

[@WhatInTheDeepestShadeOfFeck]

I hope this causes/caused you to seek out more of Stewart Lee's work. He's a genius.

[@RichardSmith-sz9xt]

Yes that's exactly how Roy Chubby Brown speaks.

[@Jamesp1972]

oh bore off

[@lllordllloyd]

Comment for the algorithm, to help us both

[@smackeye]

Tanita Tikarams let herself go. (Not referring to you Thandi. SL fans will know)

[@mohammedhanif6780]

It's obvious you didn't get the humour or the cultural references, but you found it funny

[@MadeleineTakam]

I think it would be utterly impossible for someone who hasn’t read a lot of history and lived in the UK for 30 years to get all the references and jokes. It would be like me taking someone who can speak conversational French to see Dieudonné M'bala M'bala. They would understand the sentences but miss the inflections and references to African and French culture and history. I have seen Stewart Lee 6 times, but mistakenly took my sister who has lived all her life in République du Cameroun and was over here on holiday to see Stewart Lee in Cardiff. Confusion reigned.

[@theblastedfrench]

jim davidsons let himself go

[@markcutts383]

Thandi you are to young to know about Roy Chubby Brown . He made jokes about those who are not white and what he and his audience look at as unusual. As in - not white Christians. Strangely enough he used to take the mickey out of men more than women as his audience was made up of women more than men. Not the worst - but not he best. Stereotypes are easy targets but he best joke I heard was by a Northern comic called Bernard Manning. An Asian man was on Mastermind and his specialist subject was ' Anoraks between £19.70 and £19.99.' Now- if you read as racist it is stereotype about being an expert on the Markets ( the ordinary market on a Friday or a Saturday) but it is a reality and a flattery that asian people had arrived. Otherwise the joke would not have worked. So, sometimes what is perceived of as an insult is actually a recognition of a reality. p.s. Mr Ahmed used to sell me Levi Jeans in the 70's. I would not buy my Levis from anywhere else because his jeans were very good quality. Basically I trusted him ( not Jeff Bezos) to supply me with good quality Levi jeans. Therefore you know what you know and you trust someone to sell you what you want.

[@figgettit]

this isnt a news report its comedy.

[@kirstinline]

tucker's luck's tucker jenkins has let himself go...

[@bulbulamir1]

You obviously didn't understand the humour, but still found it funny, which is good

[@VinoVeritas_]

You're either living in Liverpool, have lived in Liverpool or live with a Scouser.

[@SiGmund63]

“Royston Vasey (born 3 February 1945), better known professionally as Roy Chubby Brown, is an English comedian. His act consists of offensive humour, high profanity, forthright social commentary and outspoken disdain for political correctness.”

[@ineptwizzard]

Radko Mladic really let himself go

[@revol148]

2:19 - NO it's a joke !

[@maxine2798]

You missed a few jokes early on. Look up the person referenced early and what the daily Mail was supporting in in the 30s

[@sjs260563]

double act comediens will inevitably fall out due to artistic differences

[@ulture]

Stew's former partner has a (very good) podcast that often has other comedians on, and sometimes he'll have double acts on, or people who were in double acts, and they all seem to agree that it's perfectly possible for comedians in double acts to remain friends after they've gone their separate ways, it's just that Stew is kinda a dick (which, although I like his comedy, is probably true, and I don't think he ever truly respected Rich)

[@robbob1436]

Its slightly cringeworthy someone reacting to comedy and taking Stew's quotes literally.... these are jokes....right...?!

[@ulture]

Perhaps it's because she moved here from South Africa. It's pretty normal for people who grew up in other countries to not immediately 'get' a lot of the things we find funny, just as I wouldn't immediately get a lot of South African humour. We have a lot of things in common because of our history, but there are still significant cultural differences. It's on the opposite side of a huge continent, after all. Some South Africans speak English as their first language, and worship in Anglican churches, etc., but far from all. Oh and it's not 'cringeworthy' whatever the reason, the internet uses that word far too much. If you find yourself 'cringing' at someone else not having the same sense of humour as you, that's a you problem.

[@NickHunter]

English humour is hard for people to read at the best of times. Don't be such a prick

[@mintomax2]

Stewart lee's routines are meticulously scripted in great detail, often what is claimed as real comments are made up as part of the routine, Stewart will play with repetition double meanings audience reactions even intentionality making bits that don't work or mocking the audience everything is beautifully crafted to the finest detail you shouldn't take everything at face value with Stewart as a lot of stuff is written not be taken at face value, with the humour deriding from knowing when to take things at face value and when he is mocking himself, the audience or his routine. He is probably one of the most difficult comedians to get all the humour from his show but when you do get it you can see how expertly crafted the whole thing is, this is why a lot of react videos miss a lot of the places where the humour is.

[@tadgmcloughlin6061]

Its a joke!!!

[@stub6378]

His little notes are always made up.

[@glynnwadeson5605]

Roy Chubby Brown was a very racist and unfunny comedian from some years back

[@garyphisher7375]

Fist of Fun was early 90s. Stewart told a joke about Jesus, then he said he would make a joke about Muhammad but he wasn't stupid. He knew back then that any jokes would be met with violence! Jimmy Carr cracks the same joke - that he'd make a joke about his lamb but he's not stupid. The Danish and French cartoonists were reminded about the his lamb ic sense of humour!

[@weswheel4834]

Interesting choice to recommend this to you because it had a lot of references to British culture. The running around the stage bit was Michael McIntyre, a mainstream Saturday evening comedian a few years ago.

[@MadeleineTakam]

I had to try and explain all the jokes to my poor long suffering sister who has lived all her life in République du Cameroun and was over here on holiday. I thought it would be a good idea to take her to see Stewart Lee in Cardiff. I think it would be utterly impossible for someone who hasn’t read a lot of history and lived in the UK for 30 years to get all the references and jokes. It would be like me taking someone who can speak conversational French to see Dieudonné M'bala M'bala. They would understand the sentences but miss the inflections and references to African and French culture and history. I have seen Stewart Lee 6 times, but married a highly educated Englishman nearly 40 years ago.

[@MT-kx2uc]

Roy Chubby Brown is basically a racist comedian

[@CeticWales]

"comedian"

[@ulture]

yep. One of the last of a generation of comedians who didn't write their own jokes, they just went around the country performing jokes they'd heard other comedians tell, usually making fun of different races, religions, sexual orientations, etc. Then 'Alternative Comedy' happened when, in the 1980s, a new generation decided to write their own jokes and make them about stuff that wasn't just "haha Sikhs have funny hats, haha Jews have funny hats, haha Muslims have funny hats", etc.

[@NickHunter]

Nonsense. Chubby Brown's schtick was crass parody misogyny

[@karlquinn6571]

Don't look at roy chubby brown whatever you do