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Comedy Vehicle? I thought rogue traders was still on and they were catching out comedians. Not one funny gag, a small audience who seemed to be embarrassed into laughing along and a general bitter tirade of insults and jealousy from Lee. Am i alone in wondering how this was commissioned? Can i have my half hour back please?

You are alone.

Absolutely superb. Can't wait for next week. You been away too long Stew - you are a genius for our times. At last some intelligence wit. British Bill Hicks crown.

i get the humour
and what's with the legal action...... Dan Brown should look into comedy
it takes a certain pernauche to do stand up gig's

hope i dont get sued for this comment.....

dachshundsteve - Yup, you are very much alone on this one, I imagine most of it went over your head? Have you watched "Parents of the Band" with Jimmy Nail? You might like it....

Intelligent, witty, controversial and at times brutal. Exactly what comedy should be all about...thanks Mr Lee I cannot wait until next week.

If this is supposed to be a "Comedy Vehicle," someone had better call the RAC to get it started.

More Lee and Iannucci please.

Well, I thought it was rather good.

genius! so glad he's back.. what a hero, finally some articulate clever comedy ..

wow this blog is kicking man!

Stuart Lee looks like Morrisey innit

But it was funny in the middle bit for a while

If some people did not enjoy this, they could have always of spent this spare half hour, reading their Chris Moyles book...on the toilet!

Good to See SL back on the box, always a pleasure.

I also wonder how this got commissioned, simply because it is so good!

So nice to have some quality television that's not 'dumbed' down to the lowest common denominator.

I can understand how some people would miss the jokes and cultural references but not all TV can be Strictly come dancing, cop chase shows, or bland inoffensive garden makeover programmes.

Television and especially comedy should challenge us and raise the bar, it should poke fun at those culturally bankrupt celebrity parasites!

I saw Lee at the Edinburgh Festival in 1997 (his Moby Dick tour) & my wife & I were the only people in the audience. Rather than refuse to perform, he delivered the whole gig on first name terms to us. As such, this man will always be a comedy legend to me.

Brilliantly understated, and sticks in your brain. I jsut can't get his bit about rappers out of my brain. I keep thinking about it at work and laughing to myself. When people ask me what's funny I try and explain the sketch, and they look very strangely at me.

"Yeah, he was talking about rappers, running along banisters and going kind of 'hey!'. Rappers, you nkow, running along, behind the, multi-story, and ur..."

I'm looking forward to the next one!

Poor show with poor timing from a alledged comedian,just watch, when he has finished his punch line, he stares at the camera waiting for the small audience to laugh.

Both Lee and Iannucci appeal to people who like to think they are clever. They are both exercises in smugness and try to be clever. People only laugh at them because they don't want to appear stupid. Credit where it's deserved though - Ianucci can be a good comedy writer (i.e. Alan Partridge).

I only watched it cause I was off work with the cold and playing about with I player.

I loved it and set it up for my husband to watch when he got back from work. He loved it as well and unfortunately, it's now the source of in jokes in my house. Which it quite sad.

It was witty, intelligent and truthfull. I have always wondered by adult read Harry Potter.

Can't wait for the rest of the series.

I saw the ad for the show and thought "great" Stew Lee on the tele box!
this has gotta be good!

but.... oh.... my..... god......zzzzzzzzzzzzz

welll done stew!?! a fantastic workshop showing up and coming comedians exactly how to take a midly funny joke and stretch it out beyond belief until the entire audience really couldn't give a monkeys about why it was funny in the first place and just want you to give up talking about 'the top of the pops'....

speed it up mate!

ps. milk boy has let himself go hasn't he? (recently spotted in an M5 costa servive station) - you know who you are!

Brilliant. More please!

Finally, something not aimed at morons. Sharp and funny with a wonderful dead-pan delivery.

Not enough of this on T.V.

Wanted to like this guy, given that he's revered by comics, apparently. Why? It was dire. Dan Brown? What's new to say? Chris Moyles? Chatter that 13year old boys have to pass a long bus journey. JK Rowling? Even I said "Im 40!" to my children years ago and I'm not funny.

And what else? Long repetitious passage (which I can't recall the content) to fill out the set. Now that's why he's revered!

PS How come quoting SL's word fails to pass 'the profanity filter'?

Saw the Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle, and thought it was excellent, I have been to seen Stewart Lee live and he is a comedy legend in my eyes, and it is about time we had him back on the television.

Loved the show, can't wait to see the rest

I think I'll go and watch my Bill Hicks back-catalogue. It's better than watching Stewarts poor attempt at nicking BH's comedy genius. Mind you, he's not the 1st to try. Just ask Denis Leary.
Lying on the floor, repeating the joke over and over. C'mon Stewart! Maybe the sycophants in your audience kept laughing on cue, but I certainly wasn't.
The shame is you had some relevant comments to make.

No red button stuff online for this week yet... will it be up soon?

Second show? Style over content. Worse than the first. Just because he's heard of William Tyndall doesn't make him funny. The stuff about Adrian Chiles was illuminating. So, AC looks like a Toby jug. Not witty. Full of p? Pullease! AC is popular because HE is funny and droll. And effortlessly, unlike SL who puts all sort of effort to disguise lack of a basic wit. Enough!

Stewart Lee is one of the best and most original comedians currently working in this country. There are few other comedians so adept at story-telling or milking something until the audience are simply forced to find it funny. This is his style. I have seen him live many times and I am never disappointed.

So I just wish that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ could have been brave enough to just give him a straightforward half-hour of stand-up. The little sketches inserted into the show not only break up the flow, but seem to completely negate the requirement for imagination. Maybe the program makers think my attention span can't manage more than three minutes of one thing?

Well, at the close of the first two shows, I thought "oh, is that it already?" but at the close of last night's show it was more like "Thank God that's it."

Political Correctness gone mad? Recycling BEN ELTON sketches from the late 80s?!! What next? A routine about the repeal of the Corn Laws? The Phlogiston theory of combustion? The Copernican Theory??

Anyway, it was great to see Armando backtracking on his position of 10 years ago when he wrote a dour, straight-faced article for the Telegraph lambasting Jasper Carrott for using the word 'Muslim' in a joke (some of us have long memories...) - IT WAS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!

I'm writing this here, where no one will read it...