Stewart Lee - The Rap Singers

[@JJ62]

This shouldn't be funny, but I saw him do this live a couple of years back, and I was nearly sick laughing. Funniest man I've seen in ages.

[@JohannesLabusch]

I was just going to say that this is weirdly funny on KZbin, but when you're in the room, it probably nearly kills you dead.

[@onlythebiggesthitsoneleano8461]

I like Stewart’s jokes. All the jokes. Paul Nuttalls.

[@tested211]

I understand that there's a level of comedy in there referencing people out of touch with popular culture. Beyond that, though I have no idea why this is so funny. It's way funnier than it should be. It's also bizarrely soothing to listen to - I even like the 1 hour version someone made.

[@andycain4351]

Everytime I watch this video, I pause it towards the end when I've got 21 seconds to go

[@marlondaniels7912]

Underrated comment 😂

[@lostnomads2285]

Nice.

[@JoshWiniberg]

I guess that book is aimed at you.

[@BenCormier]

Just did this

[@ToolManDan82]

Such genius delivery, the way he builds humour is fantastic

[@loungejay8555]

That's debatable. I think he sometimes goes on a bit.

[@finegentlemanincrocs]

The hour long version of this can't be beaten

[@jupitermoongauge4055]

This is funny on so many levels that I cant decide what I'm laughing about

[@jrm1077]

My friends said that at the interval when they took me to see him

[@mrdermody1984]

That’s because it’s a multi-storey

[@nickmazonowicz511]

You’ve seen him haven’t you? On the BBC, they have him. And on Sky Arts they might have him, the Stewart Lee. He might be on the BBC talking about something like some chips or Rhod Gilbert. And he’ll talk about it for 30 mins. You know, the Stewart Lee they have now on BBC and Sky Arts. And Radio 6. You’ve heard him on the Radio 6. Talking to Mr Radmac. And Mr Radmac will say ‘you like this obscure post punk band don’t you?’ And Stewart Lee will say ‘Yes I think this obscure post punk band is very good and I’m making a film in which I’ll say they’re very good for an hour’ and Mr Radmac will say ‘Thank you Stewart Lee. Tomorrow we’ll have British Sea Power’. You know the Stewart Lee Now I don’t think his comedy is aimed at me

[@therub2191]

oi mate, mate, you're well copying him mate, do something original mate yeah, he's been doing this since the 80's, under Thatcher

[@nickmazonowicz511]

The Rub Maahte!!!!!!

[@ifnyou]

@@therub2191 Terrible decline in canyon vine rope bridges, under Thatcher

[@therub2191]

@ifnyou tell me about it! There weren't any basically

[@guymann1660]

@@ifnyou you ever see the pirate zombie infestations in birmingham?

[@cow_tools_]

God, I love observational comedy.

[@TheMeeesterT]

It's brilliant isn't it? Have you ever noticed... no but have you noticed... when you want to play spin the bottle but all your drunk friends have either smashed their bottles or thrown them away so they turn to you and say "lend us your brass hand" and then you forget to ask for it back and you only remember it when you trying to fish some change from your pocket to pay for the bus ride home... have you noticed that?.... I have..

[@missydee6085]

It's not observational comedy unless the comedian is running about the stage - whilst observing in a comedic fashion. You know, like Michael McIntyre does.

[@dielaughing73]

"What's the deal, with rap singers?"

[@kingsrd1]

@@dielaughing73 you must have seen em, on the top of the pops? The rap singers?

[@MJ-sm2yu]

@@kingsrd1 On the ramp there?

[@fiveredpears]

Srewart Lee has several performance "modes" that he slips in and out of seemlessly, constantly false footing the audience. Best stand up around.

[@sluttybutt]

im agruire with thits

[@standardbrah]

@@sluttybutt lol wut

[@vestibulate]

fiveredpairs "that he slips in and out of seemlessly" A surrealist's typo. We need more of them.

[@EdiDrums]

Yes, within and without which he seemlessly, seamlessly slipped.

[@johnsaunders6510]

"The top of the pops". So well crafted.

[@robinj6137]

"The pictures"

[@Anygodwilldo]

Plz explain, I don't get it

[@julesvetro9702]

Ukips

[@YourPalHDee]

What a fascinatingly unique approach to humour. I'm addicted

[@cbarclay99]

There's an easy antidote to your addiction. Try watching someone who's funny.

[@TheSummoner]

@@cbarclay99 Do you do stand-up comedy? That little bait-and-switch you made in your reply was truly amazing.

[@friendgray1]

@@TheSummoner he’s probably learned from Peter Kay

[@stephensmith799]

‘Not aimed at me’ broke me up totally...

[@stephenhall2980]

Stewart Lee,a clued in dude with his finger constantly on the pulse of new developments in music.

[@f1l4nn1m]

I've been living in different countries and I feel blessed to have lived in the UK because I've come to know this comedian. It's so good!

[@ToolManDan82]

It's not random, it's specifically written so that the humour builds out of the recognition of a gradually more absurd parody of the sort of conversation one can have with somebody who is not part of a subculture and doesn't understand it, which ends on the punchline, underlining the point :)

[@Bladesmobile]

ToolManDan82 so well put. Like a conversation with your gran who is pretending to know about something she doesn't

[@thisnicklldo]

Some op that I guess. But mostly I think he is rapping. Rhythmic phrasing, always returning to the same line, minor variations in between. And banal.

[@steveforest8385]

Like a teenage rap fan trying to understand a Stewart Lee comedy routine.

[@khoyrulislam]

@@thisnicklldo Very good. Never thought of it like that.

[@janosk8392]

@A J I'm a Gran and when I saw a couple of skateboarders flying into the street I had to tell them 'That looked like the building spat you into the street.' They ran off expressionless, we old folk are rather scary apparently.

[@SpecialBrewCan]

This seems so dated now that Rapsinger is no longer the Pope.

[@imnotgayyy8489]

😂

[@misterbonzoid5623]

👍🏼

[@DruggedBunny]

Jesus.

[@stephen227]

Good god ; )

[@bojanlopez621]

Good. He didn't have a very lickable face anyway.

[@steviegbcool]

love the way he can even turn the setups of jokes into jokes.

[@DJDarrenGregory]

I've watched this about 10 times and it actually gets funnier each time.

[@danteshydratshirt2360]

have you seen the video where it repeats it about 20 times?

[@KaitainCPS]

This makes me cry with laughter.

[@54CFL]

Probably my favourite standup routine ever.

[@vestibulate]

brazen 54 I'm also partial to, "These days, if you say you're English..."

[@54CFL]

@@vestibulate classic build up to the final reply of "No". He wore him down...

[@galesito1733]

My favourite is the "Braveheart" routine performed in front of a "Scotch" audience.

[@bubo1]

The Parkour Free Running fraternity has let itself go

[@SingaporeSkaterSam]

For those who don’t really think it’s that good a bit, come back in 5 years when it’s still going round your head. You know, by the Corn Exchange. You’ve seen them. He’s using hypnotic techniques.

[@danieldiver11]

By the, er, multi-storey?

[@janosk8392]

You may hear commentary like this if you wait at bus stops often. People wanting to converse without gusto.

[@EdiDrums]

Come back in five years, when it's still going round in my head? Like a pear cider that's made from a hundred percent pears?

[@theinqov]

or watch his full sketch here, for true hypnotism: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3upiXuplKqZm5o

[@itookallthenames]

@@EdiDrumswhat do you mean by that? Give it to me straight

[@Dripfed]

Essentially. If you ever see a comedian ranting at high speed about things from back in the past that they remember...Whilst an audience of simpletons fall about laughing...This is the exact opposite. A slow rambling mockery of a comic convention.

[@foljs5858]

It's also a slow rambling mockery of the BS of the novelty of hip hop and pushing commercial rap BS down our throats...

[@buttlerubbies747]

This is one of the reasons it’s funny, but there’s so many other reasons I don’t even know where to begin... lol

[@standardbrah]

@@foljs5858 novelty of hip hop? its been big for three decades and they're still "top of the pops" bruv

[@janosk8392]

@@standardbrah To each generation a musical variant is born. I saw a hip hop man enjoying a piece of 18th century opera recently, he was ecstatic. I was delighted his mind was not shut to music in general.

[@swanningabout]

@@standardbrah Bruv?

[@GetTheFunkOut46]

Then they go 'ooh' like that

[@dtutssel]

These days if you see the rap singers on the top of the pops they throw you in jail.

[@crumdog]

In jail…? Really…? When did this come in??

[@dougieeastick7439]

and they go oh like that.

[@Widmerpool99]

...sausage or some wool or something...

[@1interesting2]

Ineffably great

[@buteverybodycallsmegiorgio]

this is a fucking masterclass in stand up

[@ZaPpaul]

Not when one's there... Genius..

[@chronicdrugwasp9846]

Each time I watch this it's a little bit funnier than the last time.

[@brutallyremastered4255]

That’s marvellous, what a punchline.

[@weaselidiotu]

i can feel iannuccițs influence in this skit. love them both

[@meldme]

I love the way Lee refers to the rappers as if they are just pets, commodities or just a mild cold.

[@Ianmundo]

This was a terrifying insight into what Michael McIntyre will be doing in 30 years time

[@newstreetbridge834]

Erm…. No

[@gazdavephillips]

Michael McIntyre has let himself go

[@popeyenick]

Stewart Lee is absolutely brilliant...such a clever fella...people who have a goat him just haven't got the brain power to realise what he does is a class act

[@keithklassen5320]

I like goats.

[@misterjammypants2404]

@@keithklassen5320 Yep, those with goats take heed, lol. 🐐✨

[@AlBarzUK]

Goats have let themselves go.

[@paulshuttleworth6261]

I want to get it, I feel like I SHOULD get it. But he doesn’t actually make me laugh. Obviously very talented at what he does, but I prefer the curious orange.

[@onlythebiggesthitsoneleano8461]

You’ve seen Stewart Lee haven’t you, on that BBC1 they have now, yeah you’ve seen him, Stewart Lee on the BBC1.

[@colinbatchford8007]

Stewart manages to spin out a story like Ronnie Corbert used to do.

[@kobalt77]

Why am I crying with laughter at this ? I love Stewart Lee.

[@Tedaus5]

Funny how this is only 3 minutes long but it felt so much longer when I first watched it.

[@danieldiver11]

AGREED. Supposedly, 100,000 people turned off at this point in the first programme. Probably turned over to The Top of the Pops.

[@TheSummoner]

@@danieldiver11 Wasn't it 300000?

[@danieldiver11]

@@TheSummoner Every time we talk about directions to anywhere, we talk about the multi-storey. Near the corn exchange.

[@AliAlmossawi]

RIP, Ray Liotta.

[@simonmoore2380]

It's the phrase "rap singers" that does it 😄

[@AgentMcQueen]

AMAZING!!!

[@crocsonletsgo9665]

This was awesome!

[@Crinklechip-s]

When I first saw this it had me laughing hysterically (and I still love it). Now that I’ve seen a ton of his videos and seen him live it feels like one of his shorter monotonous gags. Bizarre!

[@MrDarksidematter]

It gets funnier the more you watch it. 😂😂😂

[@mrcuddles100]

stewart lee videos on youtube get the best comments. I love hearing comments from people who want to explain to everybody why they don't like stewart lee. Like they can convince anybody to change their mind "oh look dear masterSlayer666 says stewart lee is an unfunny twat let's see if we can get a refund for our tickets"

[@TitanFind]

mrcuddles100 They should just save their own time and ours by posting, “I’m slightly thick”.

[@sluttybutt]

Wow get em

[@CARLIN4737]

Sausage or some wool!

[@splodgen]

Well, Trump does a similar gig here No water in your faucets. You ever tried buying a new home and you turn it on? They have restrictors in there. You want to wash your hair. You want to wash your hands. You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip. The soap, you can't get it off your hand. So you keep it running for about ten times longer. You're trying. The worst is your hair. I have this beautiful, luxuriant hair, and I put stuff on. I put it in. Lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly thicker that way. And I lather up and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing drip, drip, and you say, 'I'm gonna be here for 45 minutes. What?' They put restrictors and they put them on in places like here where there's so much water you don't know what to do with it. You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes. There is a problem. They don't want you to have any water. They want no water. Trump's speech. Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on June 22

[@jillysimmonds8545]

Genius.

[@allaboutdmagic]

I was watching this the other day, realized I was impressed by the fact Stewart Lee was standing fo rextended periods of time, thought "fuck me I'm getting lazy."

[@burndenpaddock741]

This really does get funnier the more you errr listen to it.

[@jskd2953]

The rappers. Y'know, the rap singers. You see 'em. In the supermarket. On the chocolate bars. The wrappers. You've seen 'em...

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Stewart Lee should be UK Minister of Culture.

[@MsCass57]

I think you do have to be English to get this Normster. It's the kind of conversation I would have had with my granddad if I'd asked him what a rapper is. He'd have a vague idea, but would get it all muddled up with skateboarders etc like Stewart Lee does here. I think he's a kind of acquired taste, some of his stuff works really well (Princess Diana one is worth checking out), but some of it doesn't translate well to other nationalities.

[@mizofan]

I'm Welsh, and I think he's great

[@j-boogiebrown9961]

It reminds me of a sketch that Reeves and Mortimer did about 6 or 7 years ago, when they showed their age by implying that free-runners are all in street gangs.

[@LivingroomTV-me9oz]

I’m surprised there’s never a heckler shouting, “Oh, FFS get on with it!”

[@stewartmcfarlane2008]

So, Stewart, where would I see these Rap Singers?

[@david552]

Why do people think that liking a certain comedian / type of comedy makes you a more intelligent / better person than other people who don't?

[@NamelessMute]

Oh god, you are hilarious. Keep up the good work!

[@Josef_K99]

So good, confusing rappers with skateboarders / parkour / general young people hobbies

[@ewetoo]

you know the uh the rap singers ahhh

[@englephat]

This is freakin amazing

[@pauljackson2409]

You can get the book by Asher D from 50p on Amazon. I didn't bother. I can see the rappers running along the hand-rail outside Sainsbury's every day, doing their rapping, or looking vacantly into space, with their mouths hanging open. The rappers.

[@SelfishShellfishFilm]

Most people will switch this off after half a minute, and never reach the brilliant punchline at 3:40. You really need a good attention span to appreciate Stewart Lee's comedy.

[@lucyaliceee]

Ahh, those rap singers :')

[@elicohen6348]

This is totally historic. My son said “Dad. He’s good, but.....What’s totp?”

[@Torthrodhel]

You should say it was a nationwide yearly best dad contest that you got to the semi-finals of once. Then see how long it takes for the follow-up questions to develop.

[@franklingoodwin]

​@@TorthrodhelI preferred Pop Trumps

[@robmosz]

Yeah, The Grammys aren't really aimed at me...

[@54spatula]

Quickly scrolling down, I can't see any comments regarding Rap Singers letting themselves go.

[@EdiDrums]

Please scroll again

[@gooneyboy89]

Genius

[@JacknVictor]

Asher D and his soothing cup of tea, brought to you by PG Tips.

[@burndenpaddock741]

Bang on.

[@executioneer]

pretty damned accurate description of those rap singer guys, i'd say

[@kobalt77]

9 years later , me too !

[@itookallthenames]

@@kobalt77me too, I’ve seen em around

[@comanchio1976]

@jedeyewarrior I think he's satirising the way that those of us perceive rappers.

[@MrBuch169169]

By the Corn Exchange.

[@sluttybutt]

I saw them bad manners down at the village pump

[@brrrrrrraseed]

paradigm shift, maaaan.

[@creasicle]

Stewart Lee is the best comedian in the world because he doesn't give a shit, he's not afraid to make fun of his audience and people respect that

[@johnwesleysargent2104]

you've seen em...the rap singers

[@stevenuuu1212]

He loves the word 'Wool'

[@thekarakal]

Bless, I think Stew got rap mixed up with parkour.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

ffs!

[@thekarakal]

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 exactly

[@buttlerubbies747]

If Shakespeare was alive now, or mark Twain or Charles dickens... would they find this funny???? Would they be able to understand it? I like to think they would, because this is awesome and it’s just so crazy how comedy has evolved 😂

[@antichris78]

wool!

[@Unlixes]

Disregarding the holier-than-thou Stewart Lee appreciation, seriously, this does get funnier every time. I think, once you know the punchline, the build up just gets better and better.

[@dielaughing73]

Proper Lee aficionados stop the video 21 seconds before the end so the brilliance of this routine isn't sullied by something as prosaic as a punchline

[@JonnyCooper]

That repetition is just genius timing...really emphasises the ridiculousness of the topic.

[@nutsackmania]

have you thought about analyzing comedy for a living

[@JonnyCooper]

@@nutsackmania I tried, and almost went broke

[@SamthingGood]

best punchline ever!!

[@andrewroberts8139]

Agreed.

[@garyrigby21]

I've seen the rap singers I've seen them about

[@turnermichaelau]

for those that don't quite understand, one way to analyse this segment is that he's depicting rap as confusing to him, as he is describing it, in a confusing, repetitive buildup - similiar to his depiction of the genre... and for the record, i do enjoy rap music.

[@darkhood21]

See them there. Top a the pops.

[@pauladams1915]

"The" Top Of The Pops. So funny

[@JohnDoe-ne4kg]

60 people didn't see the rap singers

[@kevfrombutterley]

It's not really aimed at them

[@donach9]

Cliff Hanley you're missing the point if you think he's dissing rap. I think hip hop is great but I also think this is hilarious and very well constructed, all leading to the punchline

[@atomiccritter6492]

obviously theyve never watched the top of the pops or been around the multi storey near the corn exchange and Sainsburys rolley shelter

[@AgentMcQueen]

@turnermichaelau Wow, very well put...

[@guitarreilly]

got to say its amazing how much improvement was made in series 2

[@PaulN91]

I have to say celebrity juice has always reminded me of Al Murray, he's so popular because he appeals to 2 completely different audiences. One that finds the ironies and hypocrisies hilarious, and an ignorant (sometimes biggoted) audience that find the jokes funny at face value. Celebrity juice is crap on the surface but like bo selecta I think it's a critique of celebrity obsessed culture (based on the fact everything Leigh Francis has done seems to revolve around this) I could be wrong though.

[@davidanderson3430]

It took me 2mins of pissing laugh to understand what he was doing in his performance, 'i think'. I presume he was ironically respecting Rap & Grime content being the same and repetitive...in his mind, or his audiences. Stuart Lee sets are often to clever for me but his skill in his artform is unprecedented, he a GOAT from the U.K.

[@turtleneckless]

Don't overthink it, he's just saying words

[@franklingoodwin]

He's just taking long to get to the punchline by repeating himself and often there being no punchline because he pivots into another joke. It's not some of commentary on Hip Hop/Grime and the rap singers. Him saying words and taking an eternity to get to the punchline is the joke

[@chuck1prillaman]

This is rap.

[@jimisi7424]

mr lee. although you have let yourself go, that does not deny the fact that you could do that joke in less time and with more laughs

[@beeline717171]

At the precinct ?

[@dbass4973]

i tried to beatbox to this but towards the end of the video totally lost it

[@cashmerde]

Offfffff, my belly hurts from all the laughing. Damn you rap singers!

[@aewallace81]

@oldchippy Its the rap singers, you've seen them? On the top of the pops, in the shopping centres you've seen them? They run along the hand rail.

[@rareroses77]

You see em , might be on a PG TIPS ADVERT.The Rappers on the Top of the Pops,the shopping trollys, the PG Tips adverts. The Rappers

[@Swamped117]

Showing your age there little man.

[@Thelatenightchipshopexperience]

asher d's agent has really let himself go