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> Totally understand why he's not for everyone, but it's the loathing I find weird. You'd be forgiven

> for thinking there were hundreds of Stewart Lees up and down the land, adorning every panel show:

> not one with a very limited and avoidable television presence.


The appalling column he writes weekly for the Guardian certainly hasn't helped my opinion of him. Especially with the fawning posts in the comments that follow.


Anyway, back to the more positive 'love' part of this thread. As someone posted a clip of him in the Pope thread... Tim Minchin. Brilliant.

I don't loathe Stewart Lee, I think he is almost great at what he does. He has the audience eating out the palm of his hand. His delivery is spot-on, as is his timing, and he has an original stage presence. He is clever and intersting too, but I don't find him that funny. Doesn't mean I hate him.

I hate Stuart Lee


Yeah, really I do, but not for the right reasons.


My mate works in TV, oh yeah, he's a large-ish cheese. So he got us free tickets to one of Lee's shows, nice I thought!


Only when we got to Islington or wherever & got to the door early, like 45 mins early, we were turned away. "Sorry, full up!"


"But we've got tickets" we protested, though as the guy on the door explained so had all the others in there. Seems they give out way too many freebies, so the show fills up.


Boy was I cheesed off with the large-ish cheese guy, all I could think of was "EXTERMINATE" i'll give you fekkin EXTERMINATE.


Next time i'm going dressed as an 8ft Edam that can time travel.


Woooo ooo oo -dan da ga dang....wooo oooo

"Mitchell and Webb" like all sketch shows, even the best of them, often involves sifting through the dross.

There is a high 'moments of genius' count in that show though.


As performers I guess they're probably quite marmite, but I think they're superb.

I don't think you can accuse Pegg of selling out - he was always pretty geeky, so stuff like Star Trek and Paul seem like a natural fit. You can accuse him of making a couple of really really bad films though - he's lucky Run Fatboy Run didn't finish him.

i've been lazy and not read the whole thread; but i'd like to recommend Daniel Kitson (although i'm sure most know him already, Brendon Burns, Doug Stanhope & Louis CK.


Ricky Gervais should always be mentioned in passing for the Office, but nothing else he's done has come close. I think the xfm podcasts are overrated, extras was boring, his stand up is awful, an idiot abroad was TERRIBLE, and i've not seen Derek and don't want to.

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