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.
@JohannesLabusch2 жыл бұрын
I was just going to say that this is weirdly funny on KZfaq, but when you're in the room, it probably nearly kills you dead.
@onlythebiggesthitsoneleano84612 жыл бұрын
I like Stewart’s jokes. All the jokes. Paul Nuttalls.
@tested211 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ToolManDan8211 жыл бұрын
Such genius delivery, the way he builds humour is fantastic
@loungejay85556 күн бұрын
That's debatable. I think he sometimes goes on a bit.
@andycain435110 ай бұрын
Everytime I watch this video, I pause it towards the end when I've got 21 seconds to go
@marlondaniels79123 ай бұрын
Underrated comment 😂
@jd-rm4ez2 күн бұрын
tut tut tut
@lostnomads22854 сағат бұрын
Nice.
@jupitermoongauge40554 жыл бұрын
This is funny on so many levels that I cant decide what I'm laughing about
@jrm10773 жыл бұрын
My friends said that at the interval when they took me to see him
@finegentlemanincrocs Жыл бұрын
The hour long version of this can't be beaten
@fiveredpears11 жыл бұрын
Srewart Lee has several performance "modes" that he slips in and out of seemlessly, constantly false footing the audience. Best stand up around.
@sluttybutt6 жыл бұрын
im agruire with thits
@standardbrah4 жыл бұрын
@@sluttybutt lol wut
@vestibulate4 жыл бұрын
fiveredpairs "that he slips in and out of seemlessly" A surrealist's typo. We need more of them.
@EdiDrums11 күн бұрын
Yes, within and without which he seemlessly, seamlessly slipped.
@cow_tools_5 жыл бұрын
God, I love observational comedy.
@TheMeeesterT4 жыл бұрын
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..
@missydee60853 жыл бұрын
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.
@dielaughing733 жыл бұрын
"What's the deal, with rap singers?"
@kingsrd12 жыл бұрын
@@dielaughing73 you must have seen em, on the top of the pops? The rap singers?
@MJ-sm2yu2 жыл бұрын
@@kingsrd1 On the ramp there?
@nickmazonowicz5115 жыл бұрын
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
@therub21915 жыл бұрын
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
@nickmazonowicz5114 жыл бұрын
The Rub Maahte!!!!!!
@ifnyou Жыл бұрын
@@therub2191 Terrible decline in canyon vine rope bridges, under Thatcher
@therub2191 Жыл бұрын
@ifnyou tell me about it! There weren't any basically
@guymann1660 Жыл бұрын
@@ifnyou you ever see the pirate zombie infestations in birmingham?
@SpecialBrewCan11 жыл бұрын
This seems so dated now that Rapsinger is no longer the Pope.
@imnotgayyy84895 жыл бұрын
😂
@misterbonzoid56233 жыл бұрын
👍🏼
@DruggedBunny3 жыл бұрын
Jesus.
@stephen2272 жыл бұрын
Good god ; )
@bojanlopez6212 жыл бұрын
Good. He didn't have a very lickable face anyway.
@stephenhall29802 жыл бұрын
Stewart Lee,a clued in dude with his finger constantly on the pulse of new developments in music.
@ToolManDan8211 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@Bladesmobile6 жыл бұрын
ToolManDan82 so well put. Like a conversation with your gran who is pretending to know about something she doesn't
@thisnicklldo6 жыл бұрын
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.
@steveforest83856 жыл бұрын
Like a teenage rap fan trying to understand a Stewart Lee comedy routine.
@khoyrulislam4 жыл бұрын
@@thisnicklldo Very good. Never thought of it like that.
@janosk83924 жыл бұрын
@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.
@YourPalHDee6 жыл бұрын
What a fascinatingly unique approach to humour. I'm addicted
@cbarclay995 жыл бұрын
There's an easy antidote to your addiction. Try watching someone who's funny.
@TheSummoner2 жыл бұрын
@@cbarclay99 Do you do stand-up comedy? That little bait-and-switch you made in your reply was truly amazing.
@friendgray12 жыл бұрын
@@TheSummoner he’s probably learned from Peter Kay
@johnsaunders65102 жыл бұрын
"The top of the pops". So well crafted.
@robinj6137 Жыл бұрын
"The pictures"
@AnygodwilldoАй бұрын
Plz explain, I don't get it
@julesvetro9702Күн бұрын
Ukips
@dtutssel2 жыл бұрын
These days if you see the rap singers on the top of the pops they throw you in jail.
@crumdog Жыл бұрын
In jail…? Really…? When did this come in??
@stephensmith7993 жыл бұрын
‘Not aimed at me’ broke me up totally...
@f1l4nn1m6 жыл бұрын
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!
@DJDarrenGregory12 жыл бұрын
I've watched this about 10 times and it actually gets funnier each time.
@danteshydratshirt23605 жыл бұрын
have you seen the video where it repeats it about 20 times?
@steviegbcool13 жыл бұрын
love the way he can even turn the setups of jokes into jokes.
@Dripfed11 жыл бұрын
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.
@foljs58584 жыл бұрын
It's also a slow rambling mockery of the BS of the novelty of hip hop and pushing commercial rap BS down our throats...
@buttlerubbies7474 жыл бұрын
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
@standardbrah4 жыл бұрын
@@foljs5858 novelty of hip hop? its been big for three decades and they're still "top of the pops" bruv
@janosk83924 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@swanningabout4 жыл бұрын
@@standardbrah Bruv?
@bubo14 жыл бұрын
The Parkour Free Running fraternity has let itself go
@SingaporeSkaterSam5 жыл бұрын
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.
@danieldiver114 жыл бұрын
By the, er, multi-storey?
@janosk83924 жыл бұрын
You may hear commentary like this if you wait at bus stops often. People wanting to converse without gusto.
@EdiDrums4 жыл бұрын
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?
@theinqov2 жыл бұрын
or watch his full sketch here, for true hypnotism: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7B2i6ukxKvKlWw.html
@itookallthenames13 күн бұрын
@@EdiDrumswhat do you mean by that? Give it to me straight
@buteverybodycallsmegiorgio6 жыл бұрын
this is a fucking masterclass in stand up
@meldme12 жыл бұрын
I love the way Lee refers to the rappers as if they are just pets, commodities or just a mild cold.
@Crinklechip-s Жыл бұрын
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!
@54CFL4 жыл бұрын
Probably my favourite standup routine ever.
@vestibulate4 жыл бұрын
brazen 54 I'm also partial to, "These days, if you say you're English..."
@54CFL4 жыл бұрын
@@vestibulate classic build up to the final reply of "No". He wore him down...
@galesito17333 жыл бұрын
My favourite is the "Braveheart" routine performed in front of a "Scotch" audience.
@KaitainCPS11 жыл бұрын
This makes me cry with laughter.
@Ianmundo2 жыл бұрын
This was a terrifying insight into what Michael McIntyre will be doing in 30 years time
@newstreetbridge8342 жыл бұрын
Erm…. No
@gazdavephillips2 жыл бұрын
Michael McIntyre has let himself go
@chronicdrugwasp98463 жыл бұрын
Each time I watch this it's a little bit funnier than the last time.
@simonmoore23806 ай бұрын
It's the phrase "rap singers" that does it 😄
@popeyenick12 жыл бұрын
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
@keithklassen53202 жыл бұрын
I like goats.
@misterjammypants2404 Жыл бұрын
@@keithklassen5320 Yep, those with goats take heed, lol. 🐐✨
@AlBarzUK Жыл бұрын
Goats have let themselves go.
@Widmerpool994 жыл бұрын
...sausage or some wool or something...
@colinbatchford80073 жыл бұрын
Stewart manages to spin out a story like Ronnie Corbert used to do.
@misterjammypants2404 Жыл бұрын
When he goes off on one like this he gives me terrible butterflies.
@Tedaus512 жыл бұрын
Funny how this is only 3 minutes long but it felt so much longer when I first watched it.
@danieldiver114 жыл бұрын
AGREED. Supposedly, 100,000 people turned off at this point in the first programme. Probably turned over to The Top of the Pops.
@TheSummoner2 жыл бұрын
@@danieldiver11 Wasn't it 300000?
@danieldiver112 жыл бұрын
@@TheSummoner Every time we talk about directions to anywhere, we talk about the multi-storey. Near the corn exchange.
@ZaPpaul10 жыл бұрын
Not when one's there... Genius..
@paulshuttleworth62612 жыл бұрын
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.
@GetTheFunkOut462 жыл бұрын
Then they go 'ooh' like that
@weaselidiotu12 жыл бұрын
i can feel iannuccițs influence in this skit. love them both
@kobalt773 жыл бұрын
Why am I crying with laughter at this ? I love Stewart Lee.
@onlythebiggesthitsoneleano84613 жыл бұрын
You’ve seen Stewart Lee haven’t you, on that BBC1 they have now, yeah you’ve seen him, Stewart Lee on the BBC1.
@david55212 жыл бұрын
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?
@JacknVictor10 сағат бұрын
Asher D and his soothing cup of tea, brought to you by PG Tips.
@allaboutdmagic12 жыл бұрын
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."
@creasicle12 жыл бұрын
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
@brutallyremastered42555 жыл бұрын
That’s marvellous, what a punchline.
@1interesting210 жыл бұрын
Ineffably great
@AliAlmossawi Жыл бұрын
RIP, Ray Liotta.
@jskd29532 жыл бұрын
The rappers. Y'know, the rap singers. You see 'em. In the supermarket. On the chocolate bars. The wrappers. You've seen 'em...
@SelfishShellfishFilm12 жыл бұрын
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.
@RalphBrooker-gn9iv10 ай бұрын
Stewart Lee should be UK Minister of Culture.
@CARLIN47375 жыл бұрын
Sausage or some wool!
@burndenpaddock74111 жыл бұрын
This really does get funnier the more you errr listen to it.
@mrcuddles10012 жыл бұрын
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"
@TitanFind6 жыл бұрын
mrcuddles100 They should just save their own time and ours by posting, “I’m slightly thick”.
@sluttybutt6 жыл бұрын
Wow get em
@elicohen63486 жыл бұрын
This is totally historic. My son said “Dad. He’s good, but.....What’s totp?”
@Torthrodhel5 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@TorthrodhelI preferred Pop Trumps
@NamelessMute12 жыл бұрын
Oh god, you are hilarious. Keep up the good work!
@crocsonletsgo96655 жыл бұрын
This was awesome!
@robmosz Жыл бұрын
Yeah, The Grammys aren't really aimed at me...
@Unlixes12 жыл бұрын
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.
@dielaughing73Күн бұрын
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
@dougieeastick7439 Жыл бұрын
and they go oh like that.
@JonnyCooper2 жыл бұрын
That repetition is just genius timing...really emphasises the ridiculousness of the topic.
@nutsackmania2 жыл бұрын
have you thought about analyzing comedy for a living
@JonnyCooper2 жыл бұрын
@@nutsackmania I tried, and almost went broke
@AgentMcQueen13 жыл бұрын
AMAZING!!!
@TheFragranceApprenticeАй бұрын
Eminems Death of slim shady album abridged.
@CharlesOwen9313 жыл бұрын
It took me the length of the video to realise that he wasn't actually talking about rappers running along rails in multi storey shopping centres.
@charcolew2 жыл бұрын
A full explanation of the emptiness of rappers and rap music - you know who they are...
@PJBonoVox2 жыл бұрын
No, you completely missed the point.
@MsCass5711 жыл бұрын
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.
@mizofan7 жыл бұрын
I'm Welsh, and I think he's great
@j-boogiebrown99616 жыл бұрын
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.
@rareroses772 ай бұрын
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
@Swampsong1176 күн бұрын
Showing your age there little man.
@buttlerubbies7474 жыл бұрын
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 😂
@turnermichaelau12 жыл бұрын
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.
@peternottingham6067 Жыл бұрын
surly he's mixing up rap singers with those young parkour/free runners that was so on trend a fee years back that young people would both participate in in the usual rebellion acts against society hence the parody/ humor.
@dielaughing73Күн бұрын
I figured he was describing the one rap video he'd ever watched
@abnegatingconformity13 жыл бұрын
What you've done there Stew is you have confused a spoken rhythmic lyrical delivery strategy, with a wheel based leisure activity.
@EdiDrums4 жыл бұрын
So clever, that, the way that Stewart is able take apart the comedy of people like Jonathan Young, laying it bare for the populace. Giving it to them straight, like a pear cider.
@JohnDoe-ne4kg7 жыл бұрын
60 people didn't see the rap singers
@kevfrombutterley6 жыл бұрын
It's not really aimed at them
@donach96 жыл бұрын
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
@atomiccritter64922 жыл бұрын
obviously theyve never watched the top of the pops or been around the multi storey near the corn exchange and Sainsburys rolley shelter
@CalvinKlown Жыл бұрын
I see Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun, the largest in the Solar System, a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, the third brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the Moon and Venus, which has been observed since prehistoric times and was named after the Roman god Jupiter, the king of the gods. Has let itself go.
@pauljackson24092 жыл бұрын
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.
@executioneer13 жыл бұрын
pretty damned accurate description of those rap singer guys, i'd say
@kobalt773 жыл бұрын
9 years later , me too !
@itookallthenames13 күн бұрын
@@kobalt77me too, I’ve seen em around
@theseoldbeats4 жыл бұрын
Mark Kermode has let himself go.
@dbass49732 жыл бұрын
i tried to beatbox to this but towards the end of the video totally lost it
@pauladams1915Ай бұрын
"The" Top Of The Pops. So funny
@thekarakal3 жыл бұрын
Bless, I think Stew got rap mixed up with parkour.
@heraldeventsandfilms59703 жыл бұрын
ffs!
@thekarakal3 жыл бұрын
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 exactly
@johnwesleysargent21043 жыл бұрын
you've seen em...the rap singers
@andypalmtree13 жыл бұрын
I think the comment thread is even more funny than the clip. I can't believe it went on for so long.
@PaulN9112 жыл бұрын
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.
@Dani-El. Жыл бұрын
Ofcom approved comedy is hilarious isn't it.
@jamesinhenley15 күн бұрын
underrated comment
@comanchio197613 жыл бұрын
@jedeyewarrior I think he's satirising the way that those of us perceive rappers.
@lucyaliceee13 жыл бұрын
Ahh, those rap singers :')
@cashmerde13 жыл бұрын
Offfffff, my belly hurts from all the laughing. Damn you rap singers!
@davidanderson34303 жыл бұрын
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.
@turtleneckless3 жыл бұрын
Don't overthink it, he's just saying words
@franklingoodwin Жыл бұрын
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
@blackmichael7512 жыл бұрын
Ah, well there I agree with you. I thought the stuff about William Wallace was too close to the bone. As for gangster rap, NWA yes, Public Enemy no.
@jimisi74244 жыл бұрын
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
@beeline7171714 жыл бұрын
At the precinct ?
@danielskilton66662 жыл бұрын
Do people exchange corn?
@danielskilton66662 жыл бұрын
It's just a general enquiry also
@englephat4 жыл бұрын
This is freakin amazing
@stewartmcfarlane2008 Жыл бұрын
So, Stewart, where would I see these Rap Singers?
@blackmichael7512 жыл бұрын
Do you mean that he's personally prejudiced against rappers? Well, if you watch the bit immediately following this, he talks about how rap was different in his day, with Public Enemy, etc. I think here he's subtly making fun of people like Asher D, who cultivate a sort of gangster image which is at least partly ersatz.
@54spatula4 жыл бұрын
Quickly scrolling down, I can't see any comments regarding Rap Singers letting themselves go.
@EdiDrums4 жыл бұрын
Please scroll again
@TheVimtoMoustache13 жыл бұрын
morrissey's come out of his shell.
@NickStedmon12 жыл бұрын
@Jellowlink Well when you consider his audience is fairly niche 30k is still significant.
@Stoate13 жыл бұрын
in response to the suggestion that rap music invented and/or perpetuates gang culture it makes perfect sense
@oldchippy13 жыл бұрын
This is almost definitely a stupid question, but what the hell is the handrail bit about?
@CARLIN47375 жыл бұрын
Terry Christian has let himself go!
@redlady9358 ай бұрын
You should see him now
@guitarreilly12 жыл бұрын
got to say its amazing how much improvement was made in series 2