Customer Reviews

Funny, funny man - By: James Moffatt, 16 Oct 2008
Mr. Lee has been my favourite stand up ever since his first DVD release. I'm not going to give the set away, all I'm going to say is buy it if you like your humour witty, well constructed & with an original twist.

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Bernand Manning is dead, hence 40th best Stand Up Ever - By: Stephen Chambers, 02 Oct 2008
This is probably the best, stand up show, so far Stewart Lee has done, merely because he is able to portray his take on the world, his frustrations & happiness through comedy. In the past, he has mainly gone an ironic if sarcastic approach.

This show comes across more "humour", not asin funny ha-ha, but asin "humour"in its original meaning of being human, expressing his "humour" & expressing itin way that people empaphise & laugh. Even if the subject matter is a little taboo.

Somewhere between mainstream & underground, he has underground status, but with a strong following, but mainstream, he can never be. Mainstream is where Stewart Lee would like to be, but his style of comedy is too faceted, that he can never become a Ricky Gervais.

This is true comedy.

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41st Best Stand Up Ever - By: E. PARRY, 08 Aug 2008
I'd been eagerly awaiting this DVD having missed the opportunity to go & see the showin Edinburgh, as I had done with 90s Comedian. I was, like other reviewers here, disappointed that the Delboy bit & the Mallard bit were missing as I had read reviews referring to them. It's perhaps more disappointing for me as I didn't get to hear those routines at all.

Stylistically this is closer to Stand-Up Comedian than 90s Comedian, the latter of which seemed to form one cohesive narrative & was like a single hour-long routine, while the former was a collection of routines. This set has a sort of narrative running through it about how Stew's mum thinks he's not as funny as an old 70s comedian she saw on a cruise holiday once, but essentially it's divided into sections.

On the whole it is intelligent & funny stuff from Stewart Lee, whoin my opinion deserves to bein at least the top 5 on any Best Stand-Up list (but then, the point of the showin a way is that such lists are meaningless). To be perfectly blunt though, it's not as good as his other two DVDs. 90s Comedian was far more daring, intelligent, & provocative, while Stand-Up Comedian simply had better laugh-out-loud jokes. They were very different from each other but very good at the two different approaches they represented. This one is somewhere inbetweenin every sense. It's good, but not as good as either of those.

Without giving anything away, the ending I found a little bit of a let down. 90s Comedian ended the set with a brilliant punchline, Stand-Up Comedian ended with a fairly below-average joke, this one ends somewhat unsatisfactorily. I first thought 'is that it?', but later found the ending quite poignant, soin a way it was a good or bad way to end the set depending on your viewpoint.

For those new to Stewart Lee I would recommend his DVDsin release order. That is; Stand-Up Comedian, 90s Comedian, then this one.

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Not the best introduction to Stewart Lee but worth a look - By: MattJones, 31 Jul 2008
There are lots of funny momentsin this set, but it just doesn't seem to have the same flow to it as Lee's previous couple of shows. Lee's timing is still as impeccable as ever & most of the routines are as funny as you'd expect (shame that the Del Boy stuff is missing though). Part of the problem is that Slee has spent so many years performing material from a slightly disgruntled, curmudgeonly & often quite cynical perspective when he moves into attempting more Josie Long-esque 'positive' comedy as he does at the end of this set, it's a lot harder as an audience to go with it. Also, once you know that Russell Brand didn't actually say the stuff about racism that Lee attributes to him, it's hard to find it quite as funny. That said, it's really interesting watching him try, somewhat unconvincingly, to justify himselfin the Johnny Vegas interview that's included as a special feature.

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Very Good! - By: E. V. Croft, 31 Jul 2008
Excellent dvd from Stewart lee who deserves to be a much bigger star than many of his peers..

As previously mentioned there are a few bits missing from when he did the show live but theres still enough there to keep fans happy including some pretty good extras including an interview & the Pestival gig he performed.

Although i thought it was not as strong as his previous mainstream dvd with so little of his material available on Dvd its a very welcome addition.