HIGNFY and Mock the Week

I'm neither a racist nor a ****, but simply had genuine anxieties about politically closer ties to Europe.

Probably Stewart Lee at his best.
 
JonathanM said:
I once heard Bernard Manning make a very funny joke. Then I found out years later it was actually a Woody Allen joke. The one about his friend being an unorthodox Jew. I'm not offended by Bernard Manning, I just find his jokes very boring. My favourite comedian by far was Ken Dodd, I think I saw him live at least six times. Funnily enough, I think in the way that he talks to the audience, Stewart Lee is quite similar to Ken Dodd. He is also technically brilliant as a comedian, like Doddy was. I'm not a big fan, though, as I think he is often self-indulgent and tedious and far too clever for his own good. But I love his audience interactions and the sending up of his own on-stage persona. Like this!

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In his prime, Ken Dodd was a master of his craft. I also really like Stewart Lee.

As for Bernard Manning, there's no doubt he was also good at his craft. He said on the Mrs Merton chat show that he was racist, whether that was true or whether he was just riled into saying it I'm not sure.

Racism is interesting. It can be asserted many people are, in various ways and to varying degrees, racist. All colours, all beliefs etc etc.
 
Stewart Lee has his moments and he had a fine time lampooning de Piffle during the Bre*it years; always worth a look-in at the Grauniad. Charlie Brooker had a caustic stand-up show before he went on to produce Black Mirror and some of the episodes can be seen as satire, although the humour in them is so dark you need a weird perspective to see it.
 
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