prowler wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:21 am stewart lee is the world's greatest living stand-up comedian

Daniel Kitson wants a word.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:46 am

prowler wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:21 am stewart lee is the world's greatest living stand-up comedian

Daniel Kitson wants a word.

Stewart Lee does indeed refer to Daniel Kitson as “the best comedian”. Stewart Lee’s brilliant and a very appropriate subject for this thread.

penningtron wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:35 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:27 pm SNL has only gotten better

Any 'golden era' SNL I've gone back to completely sucks. I don't recall laughing at any of it until Eddie Murphy came along.

For me the peak was the early to mid '90s, especially when Norm Macdonald came along.

Same, but then I watch it from a couple years ago and I feel like the laughs per second are higher

penningtron wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:35 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:27 pm SNL has only gotten better

Any 'golden era' SNL I've gone back to completely sucks.

Some of it didn't age well, but as a safety engineer, I still find the "bag o' glass as a child's Christmas gift" skit hilarious.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:12 am

penningtron wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:35 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:27 pm SNL has only gotten better

Any 'golden era' SNL I've gone back to completely sucks. I don't recall laughing at any of it until Eddie Murphy came along.

For me the peak was the early to mid '90s, especially when Norm Macdonald came along.

Same, but then I watch it from a couple years ago and I feel like the laughs per second are higher

Definitely better now than the "cool beans" type crap from 10-15 years ago, weaker points being Alec Baldwin's terrible Trump and an overuse of Kate McKinnon's dead eyed schtick (both gone now). Curious to see if they use Sarah Sherman more, she's completely bonkers..

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:46 am

prowler wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:21 am stewart lee is the world's greatest living stand-up comedian

Daniel Kitson wants a word.

kitson is amazing. my post is a reference to stew's latest, you should watch it

prowler wrote: Sun Oct 09, 2022 6:28 am kitson is amazing. my post is a reference to stew's latest, you should watch it

I did a couple of nights ago, as it goes. Wonderful, and made all the better by his relentless morphing into the old bloke from Up.

What I find odd about SNL is how the alleged scandal involving Horatio Sanz, and other players, doesn't appear to be affecting SNL's trajectory - unless one could argue that the massive exiting of most of their star players is the beginning of the fallout.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: The old bloke from Up has let himself go.

...in the traditional Stewart Lee comment format.

Nice little song at the end. Some very strange diversions in this one like the rotisserie chicken bit. Like all of his shows the sum is greater than the parts. It's a pretty impressive amount of content he has put out now... hours and hours of solo spoken word material, and he's still trying to mess with expectations. Or as he once put it, "I wish I was dead like Bill Hicks."

Content Provider is another belter. "I'm starting to hate the character Stewart Lee that I created. I hate him. I hate what I'm saying right now. Self-aware meta-textural bullshit" - performed on top of a mountain of other comedians' surplus comedy DVDs.

He made a fun little radio programme last year about unreliable narrators (which his comedy persona is)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wynk

penningtron wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:35 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:27 pm SNL has only gotten better

Any 'golden era' SNL I've gone back to completely sucks. I don't recall laughing at any of it until Eddie Murphy came along.

For me the peak was the early to mid '90s, especially when Norm Macdonald came along.

Agree with this.

Always liked Bill Murray though.

And I'd say that in the last decade Fred Armisen and Taran Kilam made me laugh from time to time.

Murphy, Mike Myers and McDonald are probably the funniest guys on that show.

Right now is super boring.