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Stewart Lee at the Ropetackle







Captain Sensible

Captain Sensible

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Jul 8, 2003
6,435
Not the real one
I love Stewart lee, saw him at the Dome a few weeks ago. It was good but not brilliant. I think he's better in small venues, when you can see the sarcastic smerk and subtle looks. It should be great.
 


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Greyrun

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Feb 23, 2009
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"A Bill Hicks tribute act with the funny bits taken out" have to agree, have watched a lot of Stewart Lee recently and don't understand why people find him funny.
 


Tarpon

Tarpon

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Sep 12, 2013
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BN1
Greyrun said:
"A Bill Hicks tribute act with the funny bits taken out" have to agree, have watched a lot of Stewart Lee recently and don't understand why people find him funny.
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Probably best to stop watching him then :shrug:
 


vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,890
Greyrun said:
"A Bill Hicks tribute act with the funny bits taken out" have to agree, have watched a lot of Stewart Lee recently and don't understand why people find him funny.
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I once tried for several minutes the same thing with Ricky Gervais, I failed miserably.
 




















Stato

Stato

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Dec 21, 2011
6,580
Greyrun said:
"A Bill Hicks tribute act with the funny bits taken out" have to agree, have watched a lot of Stewart Lee recently and don't understand why people find him funny.
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I don't know where that quotation is from, but it is a glib and ill informed sound bite.

I've no problem with anyone slagging off what Stewart Lee does, he admits its not for everyone, but it bears little relation to what Bill Hicks did. Hicks was a very clever and funny stand up, but his act was very joke based in the tradition of US stand-ups. A Hicks tribute act would presumably take an outsider stance and make sarcastic jokes about the establishment's persecution of the little guy. You don't even need to imagine it, because Denis Leary has already done it. (And he was very funny doing it).

Lee's influences are far more esoteric and whilst he admits the influence of Ted Chippington, Simon Munnery, the Native American Clown tradition, German stand-up and free form jazz, he is copying no-one.
 


The Merry Prankster

The Merry Prankster

Pactum serva
Aug 19, 2006
5,577
Shoreham Beach
Stato said:
I don't know where that quotation is from, but it is a glib and ill informed sound bite.

I've no problem with anyone slagging off what Stewart Lee does, he admits its not for everyone, but it bears little relation to what Bill Hicks did. Hicks was a very clever and funny stand up, but his act was very joke based in the tradition of US stand-ups. A Hicks tribute act would presumably take an outsider stance and make sarcastic jokes about the establishment's persecution of the little guy. You don't even need to imagine it, because Denis Leary has already done it. (And he was very funny doing it).

Lee's influences are far more esoteric and whilst he admits the influence of Ted Chippington, Simon Munnery, the Native American Clown tradition, German stand-up and free form jazz, he is copying no-one.
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Exactly. He deconstructs his own act like no one else does or possibly could.
 


Nibble

Nibble

New member
Jan 3, 2007
19,238
I like both Hicks and Lee. However they are not similar in style whatsoever.

I could quite happily sit and watch Stewart Lee talk all day.
 








Mowgli37

Mowgli37

Enigmatic Asthmatic
Jan 13, 2013
6,371
Sheffield
He's funny in small doses. I think a whole evening of him could be quite tedious in places.
 










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