Stewart Lee at the Ropetackle

[The Merry Prankster]

Heads up. Stewart Lee is visiting Shoreham on September 4th.Tickets on their site now.

 

[Captain Sensible]

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.

 

[Greyrun]

"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]

"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.

Probably best to stop watching him then

 

[vegster]

"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.

I once tried for several minutes the same thing with Ricky Gervais, I failed miserably.

 

[Captain Sensible]

"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.

He doesn't want you to like him or find him funny.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

"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.

He'll be happy with that. Might even use it in his publicity.

 

[Superphil]

Probably best to stop watching him then

Haha, exactly, why would you watch 'a lot' of something if you didn't like it, or care for it?

 

[MattBackHome]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

great stuff

 

[Greyrun]

Haha, exactly, why would you watch 'a lot' of something if you didn't like it, or


Wanted to form an opinion after watching more than one show, better than judging someone after watching 5 min.

 

[Stato]

"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.

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]

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.

Exactly. He deconstructs his own act like no one else does or possibly could.

 

[Nibble]

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.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Much as I like him, that might be quite tiring after a while.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

It's not "the" Ropetackle, any more than it was "the" Withdean.

 

[Mowgli37]

He's funny in small doses. I think a whole evening of him could be quite tedious in places.

 

[Greyrun]

Sold out

 

[jimbob5]

Sold out

Oh I don't know. Oh! The tickets you mean.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Sold out

Gutted. Yet again I snoozed and lost out. One of the very few stand ups plying their trade today that I would pay to see,