Stewart Lee - Are You a Sardine?

From Edinburgh & Beyond.

[@shanedsouza189]

Stewart Lee is like the dark souls of comedy

[@sambucca98]

I love the random shots of certain audience members clearly not laughing

[@nostromoau]

I think their friends gave them the tickets....

[@bigjobbies]

how do you know they were random?

[@mauricedear5809]

@@sambucca98 yep...like it's real life.

[@jamesholmes6808]

They're Michael McIntyre fans.

[@cyrus2728]

Tom o Conner fans "say what you see"

[@bsimpson4076]

My scouse friend told me of a time when his mate was at a fete that Tom O'Connor was opening. He called to him and said he had a joke for him.. .Tom O'Connor called him up and said tell the joke. 'What's brown, lives up trees and tells jokes'.. Tom says 'go'ead lah, tell us'... Tom O'Conkor.

[@ChorltonOutlaw]

Love that the camera kept panning back to that couple that were not finding this amusing at all

[@ulture]

Those were Stewart’s parents

[@user-gi5nh6ng7g]

They’d just been released from custody having been arrested for saying they’re English these days.

[@JonnyCooper]

Tom O'Connor has really let himself go on cruises

[@Torahboy1]

The BBC has let Stewart Lee go

[@andysalter4473]

Stewart Lee has let himself go!

[@honestjohn6418]

Lee is a really clever and talented comedian. To repeat a bad joke over and over again and make it funny is an art

[@bustedfender]

…but to keep at it so it becomes irritating before it becomes even funnier is pure craft.

[@raindog7733]

Yes you are Stewart, no need to rub it in.

[@Gr8Layks]

Letterman was a master of this craft too.

[@assymcgee7217]

It's a good joke though

[@Geokinkladze]

​@@bustedfenderIt was a trip to Shilbottle that prompted this development in his career.

[@WinstonSmith-mu7ku]

So basically Stewart Lee, a stand up comedian (and I use that term advisedly), has stolen this joke about sardines from Tom O'Connor, and tried to pass it off as his own, despite not having even the most rudimentary fish canning machinery at home.

[@bigjobbies]

we are not worthy

[@cyrus2728]

Or even the rudimentary tools to write it down.

[@jeffdoyle]

Haha. Get out of my garden

[@pushthetempo2]

Yes but he delivered it like lightning.. out of a gun

[@macky4074]

​@@pushthetempo2out of a hole

[@faridddddd]

the exhaustive variations he gets out of this and the tempo if the delivery are simply genius

[@jonhelmer8591]

The twist in this somewhat fishy-tale is that the man was actually from Cornwall, therefore making him a Pilchard! "Sardine" and "Pilchard" are common names that refer to various small, oily forage fish in the Herring family so Richard gets his oar in as well!

[@daveydumpling]

You’ve seen em. On top of the pops.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Bungle from _Rainbow_ has seriously let himself go.

[@pencilpauli9442]

I have a similar question but it is, "Are you an oil?" It only really works if I meet someone called Olive.

[@jameswhittingham8027]

That Tom O’Connor was fast.

[@arrow5599]

LIKE ZEPHERUS THE WIND

[@jacquesmesrine8031]

If you're here watching this for a 2nd time or more, you're a potential psycho

[@loungejay8555]

Oh fuck!

[@raindog7733]

I'm here for the fourth time and I'm just back from burying 4 Michael McIntyre fans on top of a big hill, it's what they would've wanted.

[@jacquesmesrine8031]

@@raindog7733 well, I'm from Chile and I've watched this a few times trying to explain my friends how hilarious this is with no success. Must be that they're not English or they're not saying it cos these days if you say it you get arrested and thrown in jail

[@ackerjawaka4742]

He came out stew like a wolf, oh he was quick stew...tom O'connor

[@Potemkin2000]

I've lost count...

[@vincentvangogh8092]

liked Bill Hicks line about being a comedian and a poet so that if you dont laugh it was probably a poem

[@S7EVE_P]

3:47 lol people bringing friends again...when will they learn?!

[@randomacousticthoughts]

The people that aren't laughing makes it even funnier.

[@barrypickles6546]

Personally, I think Its canned laughter. BOOM BOOM TISH.

[@pitchforkcustom]

that’s the key to it really.. 🙄

[@Chipchase780]

I could kill some sardines on toast right now, but not in oil, in tomato sauce. Tom o Connors joke might not have been quite as funny if the man said he was in tomato sauce .

[@jamie_ar]

And he said "Are you a chip?"

[@MoltenPlastic]

Well there would have been a pause, they would have said "they usually come in oil don't they? Oh, but they do come in tomato sauce as well! Aaah, I should never have doubted Tom O Conner!!"

[@pushthetempo2]

Are you a baked bean? Surely 😂

[@54spatula]

I like how he fucked the joke up at the start.

[@hilo6755]

Seen that 😂

[@ackerjawaka4742]

He did that on purpose for comic effect ⚡ SL

[@tortoiseslayer8]

Because he's pretending to be his mum quoting the joke

[@garyrigby21]

Sardine lol

[@stoolpigeon4285]

At 3:46 is thinking "how much longer? please be over soon'

[@zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589]

3:47 that woman is having the time of her tiny life.

[@arveyilleszender5809]

The witty reply from Tom O'Connor, ironically, was funnier than this whole routine.

[@YouTubeAlex666]

Harry Hill’s grandfather has let himself go, with an Eskimo face from the 90’s.

[@HatTheFatCat]

You know how as your parents age, they tend to repeat the same things over and over again, like old stories, opinions, or experiences they had? I feel like Stew was subjected to this by his mum with the Tom O Connor bit and he got so frustrated after a while that this washed up guy was held in higher regard than the deconstructivist arthouse comedy of his, that he decided to stretch the joke so that he could tell it in his own style, and therefore, gain the approval of his mum.

[@MathewCuomo]

I've always wondered if any individual I happened to meet was a sardine, but I've never had the requisite nervous disposition to ask.

[@itookallthenames]

Something about catching sardines and letting them go

[@robertgavin980]

Brilliant 😂

[@Asherov]

This is jazz!

[@nazirkazi2588]

Like Miles Davis has entered the room?

[@walkonhotcoals1277]

Ant and or Dec have really let themselves go.

[@Broadercasting]

By a coincidence I had sardines on toast tonight, but they were in salt water, not oil. Brine, rather than oil. There was no oil apart from from the fish itself. it wasn't oil that had been added. The bread toasted was white, as it happened, to soak up the oil from the fish, but not any added oil.

[@watkinscopicat]

he came out

[@fredsmith1970]

Tom O'Connor has let himself go, but glad that he's continuing to do the traditional fish-based, scouse comedy for which he is famous.

[@encoreunefois1X]

Orson Wells has let himself go.

[@hilo6755]

I wish Tom O. Conner had went to Sardinia 😁

[@aromn]

The ladies in the first row need to catch up quick, I believe this is supposed to be the funny bit, the rest is hard going…

[@mikezooper]

What did that guy do for a living again?

[@Philoyouknow]

Claire Balding has let herself go.

[@tomconnors8165]

The nerve of him to just steal material from Tom O'Connor and charge people money for it.

[@a4072363]

There’s canned laughter on this. Why?

[@patrickmurray8304]

its for the sardine !

[@pushthetempo2]

Cos it's in oil

[@adude9882]

Not a sardine. Or funny.

[@adamglasgow9268]

That sardine joke could have actually been really funny if it was well timed and said properly

[@mauricedear5809]

Point missed.

[@Healden1]

His whole act is a cover for his inability to deliver a joke

[@mauricedear5809]

@@Healden1 point missed...again.

[@Sam-lr9oi]

Weren't you paying attention? He was quick, it was hilarious

[@sarl2121]

2:42 "If he's said to him 'you're a man', it just would've been an observation of fact." That's bigotry in the current year.

[@jahajavisstokej]

Go away

[@guymann1660]

AHAHAAHAHAAAAA YOU'RE SO FUCKING FUNNY AND NOT A WORTHLESS PERSON AT ALLLLLL

[@mrbenoit5018]

It’s the woke brigade, Stew, theyre saying you can’t have chriprodists broth anymore, in case a transgender person sees it

[@ackerjawaka4742]

​@@mrbenoit5018apparently you can't daub racist slogans in your own excrement on your neighbours windows because a gypsy might be offended ⚡ it's political correctness gone mad stew 😜

[@alexvaraderey]

Well, it's now the following year and what you've said there is still nauseatingly uneducated and stupifyingly daft.

[@maximillianphoenix9374]

F his politics but he is otherwise funny 😀