Stewart Lee - Context-free words

[@aset317]

The great thing about that Jimmy Carr joke is that, right at the end, someone in the audience's laugh sounds just like Jimmy Carr.

[@silverapples75]

🤣

[@TheCornBanana]

Maybe he's actually there and genuinely laughing?

[@thesunreport]

Wrong. Jimmy Carr follows Alistair Crowley's 'backward mijak' by laughing on the inhale rather than the exhale, which, I'm guessing, is supposed to suck out the energy of the victims, sorry, audience, or simply be subconciously discordant and baffling to keep them under his 'spell'. Well, at least that's what they're saying on Mumsnet.

[@SusiPineapple]

@@thesunreport Ha ha ha!!! brilliant

[@outlawrob316]

I never realised until I saw this and the content provider gig, how similar Jimmy Carr and Russell Howard really are 😅

[@michaellaidler7143]

Oh man that Ricky Gervais call. I actually heard about Stewart Lee because Ricky Gervais recommended him. Still, that line was ice cold. What a legend.

[@painstruck01]

you can hear Jimmy Carr in the audience laughing several times. most obviously at the end.

[@MightyDrunken]

Twitter is mostly Americans telling Ricky Gervais he is a genius.

[@thedolphin5428]

I love Stu greatly because he hates Ricky Gervais.

[@thedolphin5428]

@@Dionysos640 Ok, "hates" is too strong a word! I didn't mean one hated the other *person* but how Stu likes to skewer Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Alan Macintyre, Roy Chubby Brown, and the rest. I'm sure they professionally admire each other. Just that many comedians have a routine of shtick which begs for parody. Funnily, has anyone ever done a parody of Stewart Lee !?!?! He leaves himself wide open! Methinks it would be a hard act to do because he is sooooo unpredictable. I find Gervais and many others very predictable, formulaic.

[@Our_Sole_Pusch]

@@thedolphin5428 Michael Macintyre's twin brother Alan, whom doesn't exist, has let himself go.

[@MrJohnQCitizen]

Sounded like J. Carr was actually in the audience at the very end.

[@highdownmartin]

Or a seal being thrown mackerel

[@dorbid]

He was I was there

[@mlyaxys6222]

@@dorbid I was there and I saw that. And it wasn't a life-size inflatable model of Jimmy Carr, it was a life-size inflatable model of Alf.

[@christopherhill8821]

@highdownmartin underrated comment

[@zorantaylor3190]

@@highdownmartin Or that same seal falling off a jungle canyon rope bridge....

[@TheDarkInstall]

"and that's the same as having thought about it", right at the end was amazing.

[@TripleR250]

Started watching British Stand Up comedy in 2010 as a Teen with the entry level likes of Russell Howard and Lee Nelson... I'm so happy to have progressed to the absolute premium that is Stewart Lee!

[@michaelb2388]

Have you watched Roy 'Chubby'Brown?

[@themanmrbijok7364]

“If Ricky Gervais shouts “Mong” in a forest, over and over again and there’s no Americans there to tell him he’s a genius”

[@PhilipTimm]

Those are some of the words. Well done.

[@LectroBer]

@@PhilipTimm some of the words have let themselves go

[@walteredstates]

Wow, now look at you@Zain Alvaro and @Harrison Mayo, here you are in a Steward Lee comment section of his *WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT* routine, having your very own, unique little thing going on, haven't you!? That, gentlemen, is so meta, i feel inclined to respectfully tip my hat to you both,... if i didn't detest this sort of desperate clammy spamming *so much*. But, do tell: How many people did you lure into your Instawaste, from this particular comment section? How do S.Lee fans rate on the gullibility scale?

[@rockrenegade]

@@walteredstates You're a hero.

[@drakebilly7756]

I know Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a tool to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly lost the password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me

[@Ticks42]

Leave the same as you arrived, only more so, has to be one of the best punchlines ever

[@petermorris4941]

Didn't think it got enough in the room.

[@emdiar6588]

@@petermorris4941 Perhaps because they were secretly aware that the exact same accusation can be aimed at them. I severely doubt anyone has ever arrived at a Stewart Lee gig as a Right winger and left thinking "You know what, I might give being a Liberal a try". We are all pretty entrenched nowadays.

[@arcanics1971]

This is a first! A Stewart Lee video and not a single comment about how a person who isn't Stew has failed in their attempt to maintain a publicly acceptable level of attractiveness in their appearance.

[@andrewhenderson3808]

The N Word has let itself go

[@GrantTregellas]

Won’t take long

[@highdownmartin]

@@andrewhenderson3808 👍

[@highdownmartin]

It’s just a joke, like on top gear

[@davewalker791]

These comments have let themselves go

[@tonyclifton265]

the best and most thoughtful standup in britain today. although he has let himself go.

[@gasmanrus]

In what context?

[@mattyreynolds4243]

@@gasmanrus it’s 1 of his jokes

[@andysmith8890]

He gives it to you straight…..

[@timeandspace_3.142]

@@gasmanrus he was tried at the Hague for war crimes

[@ayrshiresoundman]

@@gasmanrus there is no context

[@JervisGermane]

I'd definitely go see a show with the tagline "Leave exactly the way you arrived only more so."

[@kjamison5951]

Comedic legend. His articulation is his signature. Been a fan of him since he and Herring were together. He’s cerebral.

[@silverapples75]

Good for you 👍

[@Torahboy1]

And he looks like so many other famous people.

[@1inchPunchBowl]

@@Torahboy1 ?

[@Torahboy1]

@@1inchPunchBowl Just do a KZbin search for ‘who does Stewart Lee look like?’ It’s a mini-meme, as Austin powers would say

[@themanwithnonamecalled]

He isn't that bad ;}

[@vietnamesefisheatbananas8607]

Ah, the lad's done well.

[@AA-hg5fk]

Stop using context-free words.

[@thrillynewt]

but has also let himself go

[@shanewright2772]

The Jimmy Carr response is much the same as Robert De Niro's approach to acting over the last 30 years.

[@tintomara6209]

With a touch of Daniel Day Lewis thrown in for good measure

[@christopherbrookfield4785]

Exactly. Why is Robert De Niro's acting so shit, now? That face he always pulls, as though he has just crapped himself. Was he always so rubbish, or is it just the roles/films he chooses? I thought he was okay in Sleepers. The Deer Hunter. Raging Bull. Taxi Driver. Heat. Good fellas. Casino. Banarama wrote a song about him. Where are they, now? 🍌

[@StratsRUs]

I suppose you think Gervais is a genius.

[@shanewright2772]

@@StratsRUs Who, me? No. I think genius is so overused a word it has lost all meaning or currency, so even if I did think that I;d be doing him no favours calling him it.

[@mizofan]

@@christopherbrookfield4785 If in doubt, blame Rupert Murdoch

[@johnmc3862]

If you call a tree a twat ima Forrest. That some mythical Shakespearen sh!t right there.

[@JC-zw9vs]

He's dryer than prince Andrew's armpit.

[@harveyjones1]

Last night.. "I know what you're thinking Ray Liotta's let himself go" 🤣🤣

[@robsengahay5614]

Worse than that. He died shortly before you made your comment.

[@harveyjones1]

@@robsengahay5614 lost in translation- I'm quoting him (SL) live - the night after he died

[@LettersAndNumbers300]

I’d not seen this yet, thanks!

[@patrickkelly6590]

His ability to ridicule his own humor and political view point in a self deprecating way is wny his humour is so on point

[@ysgol3]

Brilliantly clever and brilliantly funny, a very rare combination.

[@jeremystanger1711]

Not at all. Comedians are usually extremely clever and often highly educated.

[@ysgol3]

@@jeremystanger1711 Hi, I was talking about people generally. I agree of course that many comedians are brilliantly clever, not all of them though! (Jim Davidson, Nish Kumar?).

[@jeremystanger1711]

@@ysgol3 two extremely good examples of stupid comedians!

[@ysgol3]

@@jeremystanger1711 LOL thank you!

[@mididoctors]

Did you think he was good? ..then so did I

[@piercefielding35]

The laugh at the end sounds like Jimmy Carr’s in the audience. Lol

[@kildogery]

Wouldn't surprise me if that was a cheeky Easter egg edited in.

[@robertmelia3780]

Brilliant 🍏

[@Adams857]

oh look it's Tomas Haake the incredibly talented tech metal drummer from the band Meshuggah

[@neilbinns2232]

How right he was about Jimmy Carr. Although now Carr goes on to explain that he told the offensive joke because it was offensive and people should remember it was offensive.. after they've laughed, of course.

[@paulcurran1139]

Is there a more intelligent, more articulate comedian? Very few I'd wager can match this man.

[@lovelybitofbugle219]

Roy Chubby Brown?

[@Torahboy1]

Tom O’Connor ??

[@ayrshiresoundman]

morrissey?

[@fardinandshiddin]

Are you a sardine?

[@paulcurran1139]

Sounds a bit fishy to me

[@shashipancholi]

Oh look, Benazir Bhutto has really let himself go

[@lartensgrill6106]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@brianscott5205]

Stewart's technique of 'turn to camera to break the 4th wall while accusing the audience who don't agree with him of not getting it and not being as smart as other sections of the room' is his version of Jimmy Carr's shrug.

[@MrLtia1234]

All criticism of Stew's routine can of course be dismissed with a 'yes, *that's* the joke'. Don't you even understand???? etc...

[@graceomalley4]

Was he accusing as much as reflecting? Tend to think he’s generally ethical. Maybe you’re right. Maybe he was just being defensive and blaming the audience. It was edgy. Do white people need to play with racist taboo words? Is it freedom of speech or privilege taking? You made me think.

[@Arborealagenda]

@@MrLtia1234 This is a fair point. I love Lee's work but he is certainly open to criticism and there is only so much clever 'meta' comedy and hiding behind persona's that can be sustained. Since the time of this routine, it has unravelled somewhat. He is right here about Carr though.

[@painstruck01]

which is the same as not having thought about it?

[@andrewhopper3736]

In a sense, you're right. But it's worth thinking a level deeper - what does the technique signify, or aim to achieve? Carr's faux-naive shrug leaves the unspoken hanging, and the audience's reaction unquestioned. It hints towards "I'm just saying what we're all thinking". Stewart deconstructs the situation, forcing the audience to consider why they find some subjects to be acceptable targets for humour, and some words to be taboo, and some not.

[@Schizopantheist]

The distribution of matter in the universe has become highly diverse.

[@MCVessels]

I preferred its earlier material.

[@liambrammall1764]

The fish who caught himself with his own fishing rod has really..... got a lot of talents for a fish

[@MCVessels]

It's a tragedy that he died unable to free himself from his own barbed hook.

[@fundeek]

That Jimmy Carr bit might be one of his best jokes!

[@bourbonyoung6237]

The comedian the world needs

[@grrr.9998]

That microphone's let itself go.

[@davidowen4816]

Right at the end of the Jimmy Carr gag; somone in the audience laughs just like him.

[@stevebrindle1724]

The Jimmy Carr crack was great!

[@HalfDread87]

The Gervais line gave me my biggest laugh in years.

[@trystandavies2469]

Why??

[@kildogery]

@@trystandavies2469 presumably he found it really funny.

[@GreenMorningDragonProductions]

What are you doing standing on stage doing gags? You should be doing what you're being paid for - keeping West Brom in the Premier League.

[@mizofan]

A friend of mine is a WB supporter- small world. Out of pity for him I did offer to trek bare foot through the snow to the Hawthorns to convince the chairman and VIPs, as Joan of Arc convinced the dauphin of her divine mission, that i was the right person to lead that sporting band in the hour of need, but i had to reluctantly concede that times have changed and no longer is there faith in such miracles.

[@seanys]

“change ends” 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@itookallthenames]

CONSUMER you BACK!

[@user-iq4kl8wi7p]

Thats a Toth devotion. GBUPT.

[@perlefisker]

Marvellous! Thanks for sharing. The Jimmy Carr parody is good. But he doesn't really make friends with colleagues, Stewart Lee, does he :-D What I find most remarkable in his approach to Gervais, is how he puts his personal ethics before personal gratitude, as I believe Gervais isn't playing a small role in Lee's success - according to Lee himself.

[@dereklawson1318]

Yes, Lee doesn't actually despise most of the acts he makes fun of. Pretty sure he respects and would even laugh at some Michael Macintyre stuff; he just uses it as a contrast to his style. Despite what some bores might tell you it's possible to find both of them funny.

[@thedolphin5428]

Aah, excuse me, but Stu's "success" is in no way due to Ricky Gervais. It is due to his comedy, not because someone else thinks he's funny and might have said to check him out.

[@DrSnook]

Lee is playing a character. He has stated so numerous times. Gervais is not a stand up. He's a sitcom writer.

[@kildogery]

The harsher Lee is to Gervais, the better, since it's just a joke. Gervais is forced into laughing off any criticism, no matter how much it may hurt. That's what makes him funny these days.

[@BigyetiTechnologies]

@@DrSnook Gervais identifies as a stand up comic. Does that mean he is?

[@GlobalEnglishSupernaturals]

Even relevant today ! 😂

[@chriscunningham4196]

Or is it a torch? 😎

[@superfurryfox1]

I aaaaammmmm Rod Huuuuuuullllllll!!!!

[@zetaconvex1987]

"And that's the same as having thought about it."

[@theodavies8754]

Stewart Lee and Chris Morris have it covered.

[@pretorious700]

Pretty great thoughts there.

[@SandraPenelope1000]

This man is a genius.

[@DamnDealDone]

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus has really let himself go.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

The sandpits at Horsell Common have let themselves go

[@GreenMorningDragonProductions]

4:49 according to a recent entry to the Urban Dictionary one who employs such a tactic is a 'Schrodinger's douchebag'.

[@Torahboy1]

The BBC has let Stewart Lee go……

[@demonicsquid7217]

Reg D Hunter has let himself go.

[@5amJones69]

He's soooo fucking clever.

[@jonnyjp8486]

I'd love to see Stewart Lee have a chat with Chubby Brown

[@thedolphin5428]

Every joke, every cultural and personal reference sharp as a razor blade, cutting to th 4:05 e bone with an extra twist for good 4:05 measure. My fave: " ... how to change ends at half time (... you think that's the punchline ... but then ...) with a drunk teenager in a hotel penthouse". Oooof. Oooouch.

[@squidmuttly]

I fear it's only Stewart Lee who makes me laugh these days.

[@AA-hg5fk]

Same, I struggle to watch about 9/10 stand-up acts now!

[@TheCJsamson]

@@AA-hg5fk “Now”!? 🤨

[@jillroyson4589]

Was it a case of mistaken identity 😁

[@phil8528]

Stewart Lee represents everything I hate about the human race, but he is funny.

[@mcmittens1122]

I love you

[@tonyhaddock4699]

I have to admit to being a bit confused because I like Stewart Lee AND Rick Gervais. Maybe I have unknown American heritage from many decades past

[@rlawrence9838]

I have been wondering for a while why Ricky gervais is so famous in America...i mean, yeah, he's made me laugh before, but come on..

[@kildogery]

If you haven't, you should watch the show where he inexplicably ends up in a room with Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis CK (pre-wanking in front of people who don't want to be wanked at, controversy) all discussing stand-up. He's so out of his league, he must have paid them all to be there. Also, that clip from his Gary Shandling interview, is gold. He's such a big-'ead

[@fakrn]

was the ends joke about Ched Evans?

[@adamcoe]

holy SHIT

[@simplicjusz]

Best British comic hands down. However, giving some respect back to the footballers, 'irrespective of context' needn't mean 'without context'. For me it means 'whatever the context might be'. Great joke though.

[@tomthomas9708]

He's shite son.

[@martinmaguire-music6692]

@@tomthomas9708 - He said, taking a sip of brandy, a wry smile of satisfaction creeping onto his lips. No-one in the room dared argue, lest the already icy atmosphere became unbearable.

[@tomthomas9708]

@@martinmaguire-music6692 Nah .... shite son.

[@martinmaguire-music6692]

@@tomthomas9708 Yes.

[@dielaughing73]

That means 'context doesn't matter', which is exactly the argument Stew easily disproved.

[@Mozart1220]

I'm just discovering this guy and he's hilarious...but why does he remind me of William Shatner?

[@gregoryhunter7413]

Maybe the slight whisper of the delivery?

[@13AustinPrince]

William Shatner had really let himself go

[@phil8528]

If you look closely enough he reminds you of every adult male ever.

[@LouisWinthorpe622]

I'm not sure it was right of you going full-mong with the Jimmy Carr impression.

[@SiLoMixMaster]

Josef Fritzl has let himself go

[@jeffdoyle]

Leave the same as you arrived only more so

[@no1raniuk854]

Terry Christian has let himself go.

[@TheGreatAtario]

Imagine for a moment how it would be to have Stewart Lee on _QI_

[@EvilSean62]

Excellent call ... although his answers might need an episode ech for full effect a Lee joke shortened would be a sad sight , like asking someone wnat lord of the rings was about and being told it was about 3 hours long

[@Arborealagenda]

It would be terrible. He has in the past been a few panel shows and it doesn't work - he takes it too seriously and isn't very spontaneous with snappy quips. He says himself he hated doing them.

[@danielmason7282]

Is that the unmistakable bleating hee-haw of Jimmy Carr at 5:32?

[@nap4820]

I think it might have been him- comedians seem to mock each other if they're in attendance!

[@waitey1]

2:35

[@Arborealagenda]

There is an irony here in that since this show (2010?) the n-word has pretty much become a context free word and the FA have been proved right in the sense that it is deemed offensive no matter the context. There are numerous recent examples one being a music researcher in Canada who, after a warning, cited some titles of pieces by a black composer (Eastman) in a talk, who deliberately used the word as provocation. She was complained about, called a racist by the organiser and had her concerts of her own music cancelled as 'punishment'. Would Lee use the word now in his routine in any context? I doubt it.

[@redwarf8118]

no irony , just snowflakes doing their job

[@Arborealagenda]

@@redwarf8118 Well the irony is that Lee was sticking up for context here but I suspect no longer would do in this case. So things have changed.

[@googoogjoobgoogoogjoob]

I'm glad we've still got Stu to keep us in line

[@tonyclifton265]

oh he's finished saying that. i wonder what he'll say next

[@aboemusic]

Lemonade.

[@Kerbal_fever]

5:28 Is Jimmy Carr in the audience?

[@humblescribe8522]

Yes, apparently he was, which makes the joke even funnier.

[@JamesBarrett23]

The thinking man's Ricky Gervais

[@AngelaRyanXX]

Woke puppet.

[@Googlegugle]

🤣🤣😁😆😉🤭😍🎉👌😃🤩

[@stilltoomanyhats]

The real question is, if you shout "twat" at a pushdown automaton, will it accept that?

[@spencergrady5501]

Great to see Stewart Lee turn into Jello Biafra at the end of this.

[@mr.jamesdavidrobert2115]

This guy is even more of a genius than Ricky Gervais is to an American.

[@marloweshapiro9465]

the strange think is you can hear a Jimmy Carr type laugh at the end when he refers to him??? Hmmmmm

[@arahant69]

He likes all kinds of cheese's. All tbe cheese.

[@BassandoForte]

The lack of people on here letting themselves go - have let themselves go...

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Sue Lawley has let herself go.

[@gordonbowyer2365]

Kier Starmer has let himself go

[@jeffstone2136]

Cináed mac Maíl Coluim, aka Kenneth II, aka Kenneth the Fratricidal, King of Scotland in the late 10th Century, has let himself go.

[@michaelb2388]

To be honest I thought this was Roy 'Chubby' Brown until he said that.

[@philmulrooney7020]

I don’t get it🤷🏻‍♂️

[@GlenMcGlone]

“the tide of gentrification “.

[@Georgieastra]

Speaking of experimental comedians who gave Stuart Lee his wacky haircut?

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

Ted Chippington.

[@tommiatkins3443]

Ricky Gervais has really let himself go...

[@punkisinthedetails1470]

excuse me, can I have a context free word in your shell like?

[@hoboguru]

if Stewart Lee does an edgy joke in the forest, is there a liberal Stewart Lee fan who's too scared to laugh at it?

[@naomismith1956]

Great hahaha

[@JonJCairns]

Laughter is the bovine opiate of the precretariate class. *Jazz hands*

[@b1ng0b0ng0100]

That Jimmy Carr’s let himself go……

[@yellowjackboots2624]

I was so caught up in the skit, it didn't register he said the n word. Must be something to do with context.

[@itookallthenames]

we don't even say nincompoop in Australia any more

[@GreenMorningDragonProductions]

I didn't know you ever did. I thought you said drongo?

[@thomasnoack7833]

Yeah but we constantly say cunt, so it's swings and roundabouts

[@itookallthenames]

@@GreenMorningDragonProductions definitely say drongo still, as well as pelican gannet and galah

[@itookallthenames]

@@thomasnoack7833 this is true, and the inflection is critically important

[@GreenMorningDragonProductions]

1:27 So it's Karl-Heinz RummeBAME from now on, or there'll be consequences, ok?

[@gordonbowyer2365]

If he was a musician I’d compare him to Frank Zappa…. Come to think of it I do anyway

[@dessertstorm7476]

he's making fun of Gervais using the word "mong" but his use of the n-word now only a few years later is unthinkable and unbroadcastable, I'd like to think he still believes you cannot have a context free word though

[@andyochocki2020]

Grow up

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

@@andyochocki2020 He was only stating facts.

[@ppixilation]

@@finosuilleabhain7781 You can prove anything with facts..........

[@Pwecko]

The prissy little n word.

[@hannibalb8276]

"unbroadcastable" he said on a broadcast video that hasn't been censored in any way