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Started by JayzusB.Christ, 11 March, 2024, 02:20:56 PM

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JayzusB.Christ

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Quote from: nxylas on 12 March, 2024, 05:59:19 PMAnd in case you haven't heard it, here's Stew interviewing He Who Knows The Score: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lblq9

Thanks for this - I thought it was a different Lee / Moore one, and have edited this post accordingly.  Stew is without a doubt my favourite stand-up comedian ever, but the Great Beard steals the show in the interview I saw, which was mainly about the sock puppet he ostensibly worships.  He was duly handed the role of belligerent interviewer for an episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, easily filling the shoes of the regular hostile interrogator Chris Morris, my favourite non-stand-up comedian ever.
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Hawkmumbler

Purely out of dumb curiosity I've been watching the original run of Robot Wars from 1996 through to 2004. Might be a bit on the more recent side compared to some nostalgic musings before but for sprogs of a certain age it holds a significant distinction as being one of the sickest things a kid of 8 and under could see from the comfort of their own home.

And yup, it still holds up! Completely madcap carnage and that's what it's remembered for, Craig Charles just cinches it as the manic host (it's public knowledge he was using a lot of the blow at the time, for all the good he was doing here and on Red Dwarf the 90's weren't a good period for the poor guy, glad he got clean) but its particularly funny to consider Jeremy Clarkson as the host of season 1 nearly got decapitated by a faulty razor disc on a house robot imploding and sending shrapnel everywhere.

JayzusB.Christ

Well feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.
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Colin YNWA

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 08:00:19 AMWell feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.

HA! That's brilliant - did he win?

And also where does one find old episodes of Tiswas?

JayzusB.Christ

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 21 March, 2024, 08:19:52 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 08:00:19 AMWell feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.

HA! That's brilliant - did he win?

And also where does one find old episodes of Tiswas?

He did! I like to think he still has it - He's also a massive collector and hoarder, on a scale that would give any of us forum members a run for our money.

I found this on YouTube- the same episode had an art competition based around Rubik's Cube puns, which I vaguely remembered from my distant childhood. What I didn't remember was a kid's drawing of the 'Kube Klux Klan' - it was accepta-bulll in the eeiighties, I suppose.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

Colin YNWA

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 10:21:05 AMI found this on YouTube- the same episode had an art competition based around Rubik's Cube puns, which I vaguely remembered from my distant childhood. What I didn't remember was a kid's drawing of the 'Kube Klux Klan' - it was accepta-bulll in the eeiighties, I suppose.

Oh my giddy art that sounds amazing - I've got to finish watching Ghost World tonight but I know what might well be next!

nxylas

What was the joke? Please tell me it went on for about 20 minutes and ended with him insulting the audience for laughing at it.
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JayzusB.Christ

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Sadly, Stew hadn't quite honed his craft yet as a prepubescent kid,  and the Trevor McDonald bit may possibly have been racist.

I'll watch the second half of it tonight- apparently Sting is going to give the shirt off his back away as a prize.  Apparently dads in their droves used to watch because of Sally James- went totally over my head as a 6 year old of course, but my grud, I see it now. Thin Kate Bush's slapstick sister.

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JayzusB.Christ

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

Funt Solo

I'll give it to you straight...

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one. Later Lee tells the same joke three times.

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one. Later Lee tells the same joke three times.

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one. Later Lee tells the same joke three times.

(Not as easy as it looks.)
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JayzusB.Christ

Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 March, 2024, 05:57:46 PMI'll give it to you straight...

Early Lee told three jokes when asked for one.



Well, he was only a slip of a lad back then, writing into a Saturday morning kids' show and hoping for his first real grown-up record.


He was twenty eight years old.
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nxylas

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 06:43:09 PMWell, he was only a slip of a lad back then, writing into a Saturday morning kids' show and hoping for his first real grown-up record.


He was twenty eight years old.
And then he got off the bus, aaah.
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Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 08:00:19 AMWell feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.

And here he is again, in the pages of the latest Megazine.  He's a mate of Dan Abnett - who knew?  (Him, I suppose, and Dan Abnett.)

I've seen him do routines about his Hulk comics collection - little did I know that our Dabnett got him back into reading them.
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