Stewart Lee on Islamophobia

[@pixearles]

KD Lang has let herself go

[@philiprowney]

🤣😂😅😂🤣

[@bavery6957]

😂😂👌😅😎

[@bigdog1391]

Good observation

[@declanmills]

Here's hoping Stewart sees this comment. Or in case he actually wrote this comment, here's hoping he's reminded of this comment... after he sees it, of course.

[@declanmills]

...again.

[@peterwilliams6114]

'' You can't win Bake Off by baking a politically correct cake , I know this because I sent Mary Berry a Fudge Abortion Clinic .....'' 😂😂......Stewart Lee , Comedy Genius .

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Stewart Lee is looking younger, healthier and fresher than in the last KZbin video I’ve seen him in - good to see he hasn’t let himself go.

[@M2Mil7er]

You get arrested these days if you say you're laying some flowers for the deceased outside the BBC.

[@DrMezMcG]

These days.

[@medalion1390]

When did this come in?

[@alangray6961]

I saw all those flowers recently. In amongst them I caught a glimpse of a life sized inflatable E.T. It was very moving.

[@KevinBrady-fy3cx]

I like what he does with flipping expectations - refusing to allow anyone to be comfortable. Beautiful

[@user-fn4qw8yk6y]

Well I like that too then

[@richardfinlayson4579]

@@user-fn4qw8yk6y I noticed that and liked it before both of you.

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

@@richardfinlayson4579 I liked it before you did mate. I was there. I was rubbin my chin goin hmmm yes thats good that.

[@morganspencer-churchill2136]

Chocolate Mosque is a great band name.

[@ianmatthews5566]

Ò

[@ianmatthews5566]

O

[@DrVlok]

Abortion Fudge

[@pointless_walks-te4zm]

As is *_'Fudge Abortion Clinic'_* a great name for an album. Oh, wait..Gibby Haynes wants a word..

[@seaoftranquility7228]

Opening for Fudge Abortion Clinic.

[@minbari73]

"What terrifies me, is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims." - Norm MacDonald

[@MahlerHolic1860]

@@minbari73 Love Norm!

[@lextron-audio]

Even though ISIS is a US proxy

[@OneTapBlueNose]

Out of interest what do you think Norm was getting at there?

[@personalsigh]

​@@OneTapBlueNosethat's bait

[@OneTapBlueNose]

@ What?

[@s4squatch1]

Ted Bovis hasn't quite fully let himself go at this point.

[@kromus1]

Quite a few crossed arms and sour expressions in that audience eh. Just shows, no matter how razor sharp the wit, some people are just completely immune to satire. Good on Poundshop Morrissey there for refusing to give them even a gram of comfort

[@Volkbrecht]

It's only funny if you agree with the sentiment. It's not that people don't get the joke. To them it's just not a laughing matter. As long as they don't disturb the performance, no harm done.

[@ytuseraccount]

@@Volkbrecht I don't think thats really true. one of the strengths of satire its tendency to be able to make people laugh at and reflect on their own views and positions whether they ultimately change or not

[@simontaylor2525]

There is also the chance that they just don't find him funny

[@Sheffield_Steve]

@@kromus1 I hardly think Stewart would want himself compared to Morrissey, seeing that he's a Britain First right-wing fascist! 🎶I found a brown shirt, now I lost a brown shirt and heaven knows I'm miserable now! 🎵 Thanks to my good pal Pete for the revised song lyrics! 🤭🤣

[@ManicMindTrick]

That's on the comedian, not the audience. I disagree that you have to agree with the sentiment to laugh. If it's set up and delivered correctly you can make people laugh at themselves and their political beliefs. That takes a special type of talent and approach. Mostly, I say Stew fails at this.

[@robinarmitage2742]

Stewart Lee’s looking well.

[@margaretbloomer9001]

I'd quite forgotten how much I love Stewart Lee..

[@velvetunderpants44]

He's a one-off

[@sjs260563]

He's a genius and because I like him, so am I ;)

[@DavidHarvey-po9le]

I used to - VIRTUE.

[@jnielson1121]

He's like cornflakes

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

@@jnielson1121 Same sodium content

[@andycain4351]

These days, if you say you're doing comedy about Islam, these days .......

[@M2Mil7er]

Brechtian Alienation has ( _turns to face you_ ) let itself go...

[@MrDeVooluff]

Never seen him before... great comedy! I love the use of the 4th/5th wall.

[@Olyfrun]

Oh, you lucky thing. There's an absolute wealth of great comedy waiting for you

[@thomasclarke2880]

I generally assumed he'd not be on BBC again after this.

[@markherzog9484]

@@thomasclarke2880it’s pretty much only the BBC that breaks comedians like Lee……on tv…..

[@thomasclarke2880]

@@markherzog9484 I'd no idea here in Belfast what the issues were as it was so different then when I watched this.

[@creativeartist83]

Id love to see him live. He’s brilliant.

[@MrPlannery]

"Inner Sun editorial" brilliant.

[@kimandmiked]

1 in 5 thinks Paul mcgann... actually, he was my first experience with who. I didn't know it, but 30+ years later I'm stuck as a doctor who fan boy

[@carpog]

Anyone else spot the reference to an obscure Fall lyric?

[@EatinBubsy]

No

[@carpog]

@ These days you can’t even make reference to a seminal post-punk band’s influence on progressive comedy without getting arrested. Check out Garden by the Fall.

[@bago696]

No

[@Sheffield_Steve]

I'm so pleased to see you kept the Quaker skit at the end! 💯👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MahlerHolic1860]

@@Sheffield_Steve Quakers have been in!

[@ACCPhil]

Featuring the actor Kevin Eldon

[@Sheffield_Steve]

@ACCPhil Yep and Paul Putner. 👍💯

[@spencerwvcmoon]

Oooh nasty

[@TheUTubeTeamSucks]

Never seen it before - the use of John Carpenters The Fog is brilliant

[@mrbenoit5018]

At the end she should have said “and then I got off the bus, ahh!” My expectations would have been completely unconfounded and from thence the humour would have arose.

[@jonnyware9061]

Stephen Mulhern has let himself go

[@fredsmith1970]

he really, really has 🙂

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Best one of these I've seen in a very long time bravo.

[@mrbenoit5018]

Jello Biafra’s looking fresh

[@user-fn4qw8yk6y]

I was hoping he'd make fun of their hats

[@ManicMindTrick]

That's too easy.

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

I'll make fun of your hats.

[@miamimo70]

The ripping to shreds of the Russell Howards is fkn hilarious

[@stephenreeds3632]

Peter Kay made a living from "Do you remember.... Panda Cola?" and everyone falls about laughing.

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

@@stephenreeds3632 Peter Kay is an odd one. I think Phoenix Nights is genuinely quite brilliant and Kay has a knack for humour many others are jealous of.. but the majority of the stand up is lowest common denominator and he knows it, but he makes bank

[@medalion1390]

@@PatrickByrne-e5v I'm normally not a fan of that kind of nostalgia stand up, but when it's Peter Kay doing it, I still find myself laughing.

[@lwalker8785]

The funniest thing is how the comments section actually confirms everything he said.

[@vestibulate]

@lwalker8785 That's always the case with Lee. He's a moron magnet.

[@mudchair16]

It must be nice living away from the consequences of your own ideology. Standard affair.

[@Mikehowarth1988]

What is he saying? A politically correct liberal that's terrified of shining a critical spotlight on Islam, but he'll freely say that he hates quakers, calls them vermin He wouldn't even jokingly dare to say that shout muslims or Islam, I wonder why... so edgey

[@DavidHarvey-po9le]

Does it?

[@Mikehowarth1988]

@lwalker8785 it was based on what people think. It's like me saying waters wet and people agreeing and me been lauded as nastradaumus. Remember the Danish cartoonists that were captured, all of the terror events, Charlie hebdo... there's a reason that you can mock anything other than this. It's not a myth, and Stewart Lee is not edgey. Going after quakers, so tough.

[@scopeh2006]

Lmfao Jim Davidsons come back show being called "I didn't even rape anyone" 😂😂😂

[@DanielBenistyMusic]

Is this recent?

[@MahlerHolic1860]

@DanielBenistyMusic No. It was filmed in 2016

[@micklowrey1522]

Nah, it’s got to be 10 years old at least by now

[@peterlarkin762]

Just thrown all my porridge oats out. They won't get me. Thanks Stewart!

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

I was religiously tolerant until I heard Islamic views on Morcambe and Wise, sickening

[@KevinBrady-fy3cx]

So I went down the Quaker clothes shop . . .

[@importantjohn]

He predicted how people on twitter now behave 10 years before it happened. Interesting

[@lanehewitt7685]

My dad circa 2001 has let himself go. And he died. In 2001.

[@kevingiblin4122]

What can you say the governor❤🎉🎉

[@StrawberryMixALot]

this man is a dream. everyone has their place, though and poor michael mcintyre. he is good at what he does and he's funny too. it's good that he is challenging his own prejudices though.

[@ibanmayo2]

...a fart that could speak...legendary gold.

[@blondin07]

Was that Gavin Mitchell with the Quaker oats at the end.

[@laurafromliverpool]

Mark Lamar has let himself go

[@DrJDGood]

Richard Herring has let himself go

[@helenrushful]

3-dimensional comedy at its finest.

[@ManicMindTrick]

4d chess for Guardian readers.

[@TheSpoovy]

Lol you missed a few dimensions but glad to see Stu's audience growing

[@nigelagilebear]

I liked Bowie's D&B Album, Paul McGann as Dr Who AND Eric and Ernies LWT work!

[@Sheffield_Steve]

@@nigelagilebear Eric & Ernie's Thames work do you mean? 🤔

[@Carlos12330]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 he is brilliant 🤩 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@auntiesemite9295]

This guy just made me love Quakers!

[@Cheesy303]

You don’t have to live near them 😂

[@benjysshed1883]

Ricky Butcher's let Wellard go

[@googoogjoobgoogoogjoob]

Humza Yousaf has let himself go

[@captnaberystwyth2879]

I'd heard Ellen was over here now. Waiting for trump to release the Diddy lists..

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

This would of made me laugh but it's a very complex issue

[@KevinBrady-fy3cx]

I love how he brought in the Quakers - they are a bit entitled, aren't they

[@lukemadams]

You can't own porridge

[@1292liam]

a fart that can speak. he's back, today !

[@tomf4087]

And so will tik tok once trump gets his payment/bribe. 3 month shake down period first.

[@DrVlok]

Stuart Lee has really let himself go

[@Cheesy303]

Is that who it is

[@DrVlok]

@Cheesy303 no

[@Cheesy303]

@@DrVlok cheers

[@DrVlok]

@@Cheesy303 who ever it is, they certainly have 'been at the cheese'.

[@jimmorrisey7409]

Sainsbury's Scotch Porridge oats are VASTLY Superior

[@davejeanes]

Oats are oats.

[@dbxxiii]

Is this who you wanted to see?

[@hartyewh1]

@@dbxxiii absolutely

[@alan2007-x8x]

Where was Lee Mack? I thought it was going to be Lee Mack.

[@micklowrey1522]

Is this the main one?

[@josemengelez6947]

i would have preferred a milder comedian.

[@Toupret]

Yes. When will you have a better question?

[@Secretname951]

Wow, there’s been a real shift in tone since Starmer started talking about experiments and such

[@engjds]

Good to see a 1970's Eskimo do standup.

[@cheradeninezakalwe.]

Gordon the gopher has let himself go lately!

[@Muzly]

I'm really clever and smart because I like Stewart Lee.

[@davidcunningham9282]

No need to say it out loud

[@Budhudnut-ol2yc]

@Muzly Clever AND smart? You must have an IQ in the Donald Trump range.

[@scissoroarscissoroar3214]

Like a dog listening to Mozart

[@paintsilj]

@@Muzly you're not. But he thinks he is

[@mrbenoit5018]

Stewart Lee!

[@DanielBenistyMusic]

I’m actually pretty phobic and right wing but I love this guy lol

[@funkster2009]

thats actually so beautiful, intelligent and honest. I wish more pepole had that integrity x

[@tomparker5000]

Prettyphobic. Only bangs mingers.

[@josemengelez6947]

i'm sorry to hear you're pretty phobic but *BOO* haha, just having a little fun. sorry.

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

Arachnophobia is a great movie tho

[@jonesthenoise]

Garden by The Fall has let itself go

[@jimbobmaximus515]

Robert Maxwell has let himself go

[@Olyfrun]

Dawn French is looking great these days

[@jamesgreenwood2289]

It's like Stephen Mulhearn on crack

[@audas]

The irony that he's actually taking the mickey out of the people in the room with him and their bourgeois moral grandiosity rather than those at home whom he mocks to the cheers of the proselytizing burgherdom.

[@christopotgieter4197]

gesundheit!

[@audas]

@@christopotgieter4197 fair point.

[@Barlofontain]

Parklife

[@Forksake82]

Around 7 minute mark, he absolutely exposes the rage of people when it comes Muslims. Those bigots probably think he is on their side while he is mercilessly ridicuiling them 😂😂

[@action1976]

Those bigots that don't want their 12 year old daughters gang raped by Pakistani men. Those bigots that don't want their children stabbed to death by a crazed jihadists. Those bigots that don't want their laws subverted by foreigners who wish to implement their own backward laws into society. Are we talking about those bigots?

[@JohnSmith-ji6lu]

​@@action1976 Are you a gammon?

[@Paddyman8869]

Im staying off the 149 bus anyway

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

This is a fun follow up to Doug Stanhopes classic 'nobody picks on the Jews' bit. But I do think we need to get back urgently to nationalist christian white supremist bashing. Because oh boy

[@fredsmith1970]

this is great comedy, given to me straight like a pear cider made from 100% pears

[@jayneallisonlaity9891]

Very clever bloke. 😂

[@bigjob7551]

I've laughed more at work.

[@Johnconno]

There's no picture of Mohammed in the people mentioned section.

[@hartyewh1]

@@Johnconno for me there is right next to Roy Chubby Brown🤣

[@vernonrabbetts]

Factually incorrect. At the Islamic Art Museum in Kuala Lumpur, there are several portraits of Muhammed painted in old Ottoman religious publications. Just like there periods of Christianity where images of Jesus were banned too, look for Iconoclast. But apart from that you're 100% correct.

[@sandstorm1667]

@@vernonrabbetts not sure l agree with you there. I have lived in Malaysia and also visited the same KL museum many many times over the past 20 years- it’s one of my favourite places. I’ve never seen a painting, picture or drawing of the Prophet Muhammed even amongst the visiting exhibitions. Malaysia is very strict and monitors such things carefully, and would never allow it as it’s forbidden in the Islamic world to make an image of the Prophet. I’m sure there would be a social uprising in the country. It’s quite possible that what you think is Muhammed is actually a painting of an Ottoman king.

[@vernonrabbetts]

Well, that would be an assumption on my behalf on a subject which is contentious. So I remembered to read the descriptions which were helpfully shown in Malay, and English, can't remember if they were in Jawi too. However, visual representations of the prophet are shown in much Persian literature, especially depicting the Miraj when he ascended to heaven on Burak. There is also another famous representation in the Edinburgh Codex, the Khamah of Nizami and others.

[@Johnconno]

@vernonrabbetts Thanks.

[@zamiadams4343]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@laestrella9727]

I love Stewart Lee but would prefer more jokes and less lecturing / mocking people at home.

[@StrawberryMixALot]

that's probably the most exercise he's done.

[@faithlesshealer]

Brilliant

[@dantedocerto]

it seems like his desire is to insult his political opponents as i am not from england the slurs don't really land.

[@simondalton-vr9vw]

If 6oy dont like our slurs you can go back to where you came from. Min of pedantic racism pge 234 subs 6 a ***

[@wfifa199]

Very, very clever 👏

[@jimmorrisey7409]

Gollums aged well.

[@Ivan_1919]

😏

[@lliambunter]

very talented man

[@Levenstone132]

I prefer Nairn's. Gluten free.

[@Tayloradrift]

Sanctimonious Guardian reading audience

[@retrospective77]

Is that supposed to be an insult? He literally says that in his set

[@neilb2793]

I liked the fart joke.

[@sirprancealott2003]

Shame he didnt stay cake phobic

[@stevewynnearts]

Nice shirt

[@TheLucanicLord]

16:33 Is Rod Liddle a quaker? You know what, I don't think I've ever seen one. A handful of Amish.

[@manfrombritain6816]

oh look, another out of touch person refuses to acknowledge the problems

[@keithakehurst9399]

I wonder where he lives?

[@theislandmonkee5677]

He's not as funny as his brother Iain

[@markjones4034]

Stuart Lee is so intellectually top heavy that I don’t understand how he doesn’t flip over when he lurches forward and shouts into camera, and I don’t get his humour, but some champagne socialists that I know really, really do, and they think that he’s amazing……

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

Have you considered watching something less intellectually taxing? I think joe rogan new special might be more suitable, I’m sure there wont be anything in it you don’t understand. Although maybe you choose to watch things you dont understand in the hope of attracting attention from people you pretend to despise.

[@shoxx48]

Ooh now it's picking up!

[@Bless-cs9ct]

I'm a street jail bird nigha, and I think he's hilarious. Don't have to be a champagne socialist, just gotta have a brain. If you don't get it, joe rogan does stand up also.

[@markjones4034]

@ ….are there really 7548 other people called kickedinthecalfbyacow?

[@markjones4034]

Who’s Joe Rogan?

[@the1jxk]

Desperate times still not funny

[@-unclejohn-]

Morrisseys let himself go

[@Sheffield_Steve]

@@-unclejohn- I don't think he'd want to be compared to that Britain First right-wing Billy Brit now! 💯🤭

[@PaulTill-q5y]

Genius

[@micklowrey1522]

Sandi Toksvig is looking well

[@ramdonko6661]

🥁🕊🦅🏌‍♀

[@colinjames2469]

Will be funny when his woke comedy has gone bye byes.

[@darrens3]

Anyone using the term woke in 2025 is culturally as irrelevant as asbestos.

[@spencerwvcmoon]

Well done Stuart brave left field unchartered territory well worth it tho I enjoyed that!❤

[@PhilipHunt]

Donald Trump has let himself go.

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

I like Stewart Lee. Don’t know when this was done but found it below par. That must make me the equivalent of people who agree with Richard Dawkins’ central thrust in The God Delusion but are still tolerant about theists. He hates those ones.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv Feckin' hilarious to me!

[@bigjob7551]

Was this supposed to be funny? Maybe he should take a trip to roachdale.

[@darrens3]

Satire is lost on you but isn't it. It's hard when you leave school with no GCSEs.

[@bigjob7551]

@darrens3 I understand satire! He just isn't funny.

[@simondalton-vr9vw]

Where is roachdale, insectly?

[@McNeish]

Nigel Farage has let himself go.

[@cheeks7050]

lol

[@PaulSmith-pi4om]

Funny as

[@MGDriver99]

That Michael McIntyre's let himself go.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

@@MGDriver99 He looks & sounds nowt like McIntyre, because this blokes actually funny! Unlike him!

[@MGDriver99]

@@Sheffield_Steve Except where he's running about the stage "doing observational comedy".

[@AntP-e8o]

Tommy Robinson has let himself go.