Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle -Series 3 (Starts March 1st. BBC2 10pm)

Welsh Megaman

He's back!

And he's brought Chris Morris with him!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112b65

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/stewart-lees-comedy-vehicle-series-3-trailer-for-chris-morrisfeaturing-series-drops-9152042.html

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

And he's brought Chris Morris with him!

I feel like I've got the Moon on a Stick!

Mocha Joe

Can't wait. Last 2 were great.

Mr Pseudonym

Skid X wrote: »

I feel like I've got the Moon on a Stick!

SimonQuinlank

Good little interview with Stew on Radio 4,starts about a minute in.

And on This Week from earlier tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0dvSyucZA

Mr Pseudonym

Committed StewyLee fans have probably already seen the below clip. It's hard to appraise student comedy, because often the student will have been honing their 5/10 minute routine for months. But, as a big fan of the genre, I can say that this is superb. He's 22/23 at the time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seTMl6MQ1yw

RayM

Well, that was even better than I expected. Great to see Chris Morris back on TV too.

Andersonisgod

Furious I missed it, does anybody know if there will be a replay or indeed if there is any way to catch this first episode? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Welsh Megaman

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Furious I missed it, does anybody know if there will be a replay or indeed if there is any way to catch this first episode? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BBC iPlayer.

If not, and you have Sky, it's repeated on BBC Two Wales (Channel 971) this Tuesday at 10pm.

Not on BBC Two Wales tonight because of all this St. David's malarkey

Andersonisgod

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

BBC iPlayer.

If not, and you have Sky, it's repeated on BBC Two Wales (Channel 971) this Tuesday at 10pm.

Not on BBC Two Wales tonight because of all this St. David's malarkey

I can't seem to get the iplayer to work as I am in Ireland and not the UK, it's very frustrating.

Thanks for the help, I will keep an eye out unless I first manage to get the iplayer to work.

Dozen Wicked Words

Andersonisgod wrote: »

I can't seem to get the iplayer to work as I am in Ireland and not the UK, it's very frustrating.

Thanks for the help, I will keep an eye out unless I first manage to get the iplayer to work.

Google Hola for either Firefox or Chrome.

Andersonisgod

Thanks for the help everyone, I've just finished the episode after getting a bit creative with the internet. Loved it, some genuine laugh out loud bits and the ending, though dramatic effect was obviously heightened for laughs, also had a real point to it. Excellent first episode of the new season, I won't be missing it on tv again.

groovie

Great to have him back. Loved it, even the odd bit at the end. Even odder than usual.

SimonQuinlank

Fantastic stuff from Stew,as usual.Loved the ending.

Chris Morris was great too.''You're persuading people that they've had a good time, when measurably,they haven't.It's like being the devil.''

Welsh Megaman

Great start, and the fact that I'm not a fan of Lee Mack's stand-up made it even better!

Already looking forward to next week's episode.

MisterAnarchy

Brilliant start to the third series ,haven't laughed as much in ages.
Proper standup comedy.

Welsh Megaman

Next week's episode is at the slightly later time of 10.15pm.

With a guest appearance from Kevin Eldon!

briany

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Next week's episode is at the slightly later time of 10.15pm.

With a guest appearance from Kevin Eldon!

Or, as Lee insists on calling him, the actor Kevin Eldon.

You can usually tell a show's good when the Beeb starts to bump it around in the schedules, I find, and Lee's show certainly is that. His feelings about the Internet mostly ring true and were quite funny. I don't think Lee's ever been into computers much, but probably regards them as a necessary evil since he made his 2005 resurgence and subsequent career renewal with great help from internet promotion. He says that they stifle children's imaginations - that's true - but partly because computers today are trending more towards being devices which try to limit what the user can do beyond the manufacturer's imagination or intention.

It used to be that computers compelled the user's imagination because otherwise they'd be pretty boring. Some home computer users even wrote their own games, such as Simon Munnery's offering for the ZX Spectrum.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Next week's episode is at the slightly later time of 10.15pm.

With a guest appearance from Kevin Eldon!

I am very pleased that Stewart Lee, Chris Morris and The Actor Kevin Eldon will be appearing in the same show in 2014. The Television World hasn't gone completely mad just yet.

Between them, they have appeared in a huge number of my favourite shows.

Welsh Megaman

Stewart is on Radcliffe and Maconie's show on BBC6 music this afternoon after 2.30.

Skid X

Good interview with Stewart Lee here (it's quite long).

http://www.chortle.co.uk/interviews/2014/03/07/19747/%91one_of_the_nice_things_about_the_bbc_is_they_dont_really_promote_the_series

It's a shame to see the BBC is so lukewarm about the show. Their comedy commissioning has gone to hell in the last few years.

'Let's remember, I've never been able to definitely get the series recommissioned, they always seem to happen a few years late in a rather slipshod way. There's never any obvious enthusiasm about [the] recommissioning. Certainly, the third wasn't going to happen until Sky wanted to do it and that forced the BBC's hand, as did [winning] the Bafta and the British Comedy Awards. So that's not really fair.'

briany

Skid X wrote: »

Good interview with Stewart Lee here (it's quite long).

http://www.chortle.co.uk/interviews/2014/03/07/19747/%91one_of_the_nice_things_about_the_bbc_is_they_dont_really_promote_the_series

It's a shame to see the BBC is so lukewarm about the show. Their comedy commissioning has gone to hell in the last few years.

BBC's comedy commissioning has been patchy for years. Lee's been pretty open about his dealings with this beast but not necessarily in a negative way, more that he looks at it like a weather system - it knows neither kindness, nor malice and nobody can always accurately predict what it'll do.

groovie

Another good show last night, very well
thought out.

Andersonisgod

Very funny and quite a good ending too. The stand up was one of the 30 minute bits that he did in his latest show in Dublin.

Mr Pseudonym

I found it difficult to laugh at the "These days, if you say you're English, they arrest you and throw you in jail" skit. Didn't he use the same concept in a previous series? And I've definitely seen him doing it live.

Welsh Megaman

Another magnificent performance from Kevin Eldon!

KevinEldon

Cheers.

Mr Pseudonym

I've just finished watching 'Shilbottle'. Though the stand-up lacked the overt structure of the second episode, I thought it was much funnier (despite the fact that I found my self correctly predicting parts of gags). I hope the closing piece was a gentle parody of faux-inspirational shorts which work on the assumption that if you pound enough bars of Einaudi anything can be moving and meaningful. Surely it wasn't an attempt at profundity; he doesn't actually think, does he, that creative disobedience macht frei?!

MisterAnarchy

Mr Pseudonym wrote: »

I found it difficult to laugh at the "These days, if you say you're English, they arrest you and throw you in jail" skit. Didn't he use the same concept in a previous series? And I've definitely seen him doing it live.

Yeah ,I dont like it when he keeps on repeating stuff like that or the Crisps rant or Dellboy falling over rant ,or the Rappers rant from a few years ago .
He needs someone to have a word in his ear and tell him to stop those long repetitive rants .

Second episode was decent but not a patch on the first one.

Welsh Megaman

Tonight's episode at the slightly later time of 10.15pm again.

take everything

OMFG.
Chris Morris and Stew in the same room.

/faints

These two haven't worked together since On the Hour over 20 years ago if i'm not mistaken.

Andersonisgod

Excellent 30 minutes of stand up, I'd go as far as to say that was my favourite episode of this season. Very witty, cutting, and complete show with the right amount of Lee's hallmarks. There was a clear theme running throughout with several different strands knitted together by an excellent ending. The BNP/Hindu taxi driver black/gay wife was also my favourite bit that Lee did in Dublin.

Mr Pseudonym

take everything wrote: »

OMFG.
Chris Morris and Stew in the same room.

/faints

These two haven't worked together since On the Hour over 20 years ago if i'm not mistaken.

He's been involved in at least one of the previous Comedy Vehicles. Definitely the supreme being of satire!

Setun

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Excellent 30 minutes of stand up, I'd go as far as to say that was my favourite episode of this season. Very witty, cutting, and complete show with the right amount of Lee's hallmarks. There was a clear theme running throughout with several different strands knitted together by an excellent ending. The BNP/Hindu taxi driver black/gay wife was also my favourite bit that Lee did in Dublin.

Yeah great episode this week! Some of the bits I remember from seeing him do his 'work in progress' shows in Edinburgh last August, but the material is of course much tighter now.

Does anybody know when the next Comedy Vehicle series will air? I think it might be in 2016 rather than 2015 if I remember correctly. EDIT - just read it's due to be aired in April 2016.

Welsh Megaman

Setun wrote: »

Yeah great episode this week! Some of the bits I remember from seeing him do his 'work in progress' shows in Edinburgh last August, but the material is of course much tighter now.

Does anybody know when the next Comedy Vehicle series will air? I think it might be in 2016 rather than 2015 if I remember correctly. EDIT - just read it's due to be aired in April 2016.

Mr Pseudonym

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

I'm offended by the thought that I'll have to wait two years for the next series

Setun

Mr Pseudonym wrote: »

I'm offended by the thought that I'll have to wait two years for the next series

On the bright side might get a new full show this year. I'd say the first announcements concrete about what he's up to will be the Edinburgh Fringe programme, which should be out pretty soon I think.

MisterAnarchy

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Excellent 30 minutes of stand up, I'd go as far as to say that was my favourite episode of this season. Very witty, cutting, and complete show with the right amount of Lee's hallmarks. There was a clear theme running throughout with several different strands knitted together by an excellent ending. The BNP/Hindu taxi driver black/gay wife was also my favourite bit that Lee did in Dublin.

I actually though it was a very poor episode ,not funny at all,tedious and a bit too smug .
The imbecile in the audience laughing every 2 seconds was extremely off putting too .
The series seems to be getting worse as it goes along.

Welsh Megaman

Last in the series, 10.15pm tonight.

Skid X

Chris Morris stole the final episode for me


"At some level you're not just sh*tting on your own doorstep, you're blasting sewage through your letterbox with a firehose ... You're like Bobby Sands with a muck spreader"

Great series, good to see there will be more (eventually).

Gamayun

The final episode was the most 'concept'-like of the series I think; With Stewart's voice breaking up occasionally (I think bit self consciously) it came across more as a one-man-theatre piece than stand-up in places.

The bit with Morris at the end was great:

Lee: "Is it entertainment? Is it meant to be entertainment, I don't know. But, you know what's important? Time's passed and at the end of it people say 'ooh, something happened'."

*pause*

Morris: "Is there anything you couldn't say that about?" :pac:

Episode 1 was great.
Episode 2 was a bit weak.
Episode 3 was properly laugh out loud all the way through.

Some of the fake craft beer names were fantastic.