Stewart Lee, Is he funny?

Just picked up an inexpensive copy of A Past Gone Mad. It was compiled by comedian Stewart Lee.

I checked out his interesting website.

Is he entertaining? Never heard of him in North America.

A Past Gone Mad was a little bit of a hodgepodge. Although the first couple of songs (The CD In Your Hand [MES spoken word track] / Touch Sensitive / High Tension Line / Rose / Birmingham School Of Business School) and last couple of songs (Antidotes / Bonkers In Phoenix / Bill Is Dead) on the CD were an arrangement of brilliance.

The middle of the CD did not live up to the great beginning and surprising ending.

As a compilation of 1990s material from the Fall, the CD lacked songs from the Light User Syndrome, a CD whose rights Artful did not own.

I don't know if I'll keep the CD, but it has given me good ideas for my own compilation.

Stewart Lee ... reminds me of a Sienfeld episode ..... "Lee that's a Chinese name, but you don't speak Chinese?"

IMHO Stuart Lee is, or at least was, a very funny guy. He used to do a criminally underrated Sunday morning show in the late 90’s with another guy called Richard Herring. It was aimed squarely at the 18-35 year old ‘Hangover’ tv audience and was piss funny. It contained a segment (no pun intended) called the “Curious Orange” in which an orange would ponder some questions of the day. No need to tell you what the theme music for that bit was. Unfortunately, it seems that my wife and I were the only people who found it funny and it was dropped after 1 or 2 series. You may find more info if you search on the net under the shows name “This Morning with Richard, not Judy” – a reference to the show presented by ‘King & Queen of Daytime tv’ Richard Madely and Judy Finnigan who often turn up in Fall lyrics (North West Fashion Show/ Past Gone Mad/ A Lot of Wind). After that I saw him do stand up a few times and he was excellent, though as with much comedy, I’m not sure the humour and references would translate overseas. I’ve no idea what he’s been up to the last few years.

Thanks.

http://www.stewartlee.co.uk

I watched that show, I though it was great, and the Curious Orange section was the first Fall I ever heard - that's what got me into them, along with all the publicity that came along soon afterward re the bust-up in the US. My favourite bits, rabid anti-Christian that I am, were the sketches where Stewart played Jesus preaching to an attentive circle of disciples who would nod sagely and go 'ahhhh' at every inane thing he said. Richard played the doubting Thomas, who would then rip what he'd said to shreds. Fucking great that was.

Wonderful show: When things fall out of cupboards, hobbies, the Welsh female Nostradamus, Robbie Williams tattoo, kurious alien, "I made this".

Sounds like I'm missed out on something. Is his book The Perfect Fool any good?

I've stuck a couple of clips of Stewart Lee in 'This Morning With Richard Not Judy' on my webpages so that you can judge him yourselves.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.bending/index.html

Steven

Thanks for the reminder of who u r talking about in this thread...i now know who u mean....i would sometimes put their show on by accident
no....
i aint a fan ...
really

i feel like the curious orange now...so dont explain why i am wrong

Any files in QuickTime? Sorry for being a pest.

Hi Dktr Hohnholz-G - you're not being a pest. But sadly, no, I don't have the files in QuickTime.

You can view the files on a Mac using the 'DivX codec for Mac' by clicking on the link below:

http://www.divx.com/software/browse.php?cid=16

The site says:

'The DivX codec for Mac OS is a QuickTime component that runs on Mac OS 8.6 through Mac OS X. This version includes all the playback and encoding functionality necessary to watch and create DivX videos.'

If you preferred you could try converting the files from avi to mov by using Bink and Smacker's RAD software but I suspect that you'll need to have the DivX codec on you machine to get it to work in any case.

Steven

Quicktime Player will happily playback almost all formats bar windows media. Divx works ok even on my ageing Mac, delivering around 15fps