I love the random shots of certain audience members clearly not laughing

Love that the camera kept panning back to that couple that were not finding this amusing at all

My scouse friend told me of a time when his mate was at a fete that Tom O'Connor was opening. He called to him and said he had a joke for him.. .Tom O'Connor called him up and said tell the joke. 'What's brown, lives up trees and tells jokes'.. Tom says 'go'ead lah, tell us'... Tom O'Conkor.

Stewart Lee is like the dark souls of comedy

Tom O'Connor has really let himself go on cruises

Lee is a really clever and talented comedian. To repeat a bad joke over and over again and make it funny is an art

The BBC has let Stewart Lee go

The twist in this somewhat fishy-tale is that the man was actually from Cornwall, therefore making him a Pilchard! "Sardine" and "Pilchard" are common names that refer to various small, oily forage fish in the Herring family so Richard gets his oar in as well!

the exhaustive variations he gets out of this and the tempo if the delivery are simply genius

Bungle from _Rainbow_ has seriously let himself go.

You’ve seen em. On top of the pops.

I have a similar question but it is, "Are you an oil?" It only really works if I meet someone called Olive.

LIKE ZEPHERUS THE WIND

So basically Stewart Lee, a stand up comedian (and I use that term advisedly), has stolen this joke about sardines from Tom O'Connor, and tried to pass it off as his own, despite not having even the most rudimentary fish canning machinery at home.

That Tom O’Connor was fast.

If you're here watching this for a 2nd time or more, you're a potential psycho

liked Bill Hicks line about being a comedian and a poet so that if you dont laugh it was probably a poem

I like how he fucked the joke up at the start.

3:47 lol people bringing friends again...when will they learn?!

Harry Hill’s grandfather has let himself go, with an Eskimo face from the 90’s.

I could kill some sardines on toast right now, but not in oil, in tomato sauce. Tom o Connors joke might not have been quite as funny if the man said he was in tomato sauce .

3:47 that woman is having the time of her tiny life.

Personally, I think Its canned laughter. BOOM BOOM TISH.

At 3:46 is thinking "how much longer? please be over soon'

Brilliant 😂

This is jazz!

Ant and or Dec have really let themselves go.

I've always wondered if any individual I happened to meet was a sardine, but I've never had the requisite nervous disposition to ask.

he came out

You know how as your parents age, they tend to repeat the same things over and over again, like old stories, opinions, or experiences they had? I feel like Stew was subjected to this by his mum with the Tom O Connor bit and he got so frustrated after a while that this washed up guy was held in higher regard than the deconstructivist arthouse comedy of his, that he decided to stretch the joke so that he could tell it in his own style, and therefore, gain the approval of his mum.

I wish Tom O. Conner had went to Sardinia 😁

The ladies in the first row need to catch up quick, I believe this is supposed to be the funny bit, the rest is hard going…

By a coincidence I had sardines on toast tonight, but they were in salt water, not oil. Brine, rather than oil. There was no oil apart from from the fish itself. it wasn't oil that had been added. The bread toasted was white, as it happened, to soak up the oil from the fish, but not any added oil.

There’s canned laughter on this. Why?

2:42 "If he's said to him 'you're a man', it just would've been an observation of fact." That's bigotry in the current year.

That sardine joke could have actually been really funny if it was well timed and said properly

F his politics but he is otherwise funny 😀