THE best 30min stand-up routine ever?- Stewart Lee- Shilbottle- review/reaction

It was weird, it was kind of mind-blowing and you're rushing to try to keep up with where you are and what's going on oh yeah, yeah, that's good, what's up? youtube hello, so a bit of Stuart Lee I haven't done it. I've done one of these for a while, but I think this is a bit special, like me, so this is a bottle of shill, which I think is the Stewart Lee comedy vehicle episode, sorry, series three, no, that really matters, but I think this is one of the

best

, if not the

best

, uh um, of her

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I actually cut out the little bits in between that made it almost half an hour long, so I think it's even better because you literally just get Stand Up without any of the parts in between is a lot of fun, but anyway, that's for another time , so, yeah, this is very good, I'll talk about it later, I hope you enjoy anything else to say, I don't think. So I'm still a little fuzzy. I'm not sure about the settings on this camera and it's pissing me off a little, but anyway, you know, make the best of it.

Sorry, so here we go, let's literally dive into um to uh, young people today are exposed to pornographic images

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ywhere, in advertising, in fashion, in music and most of all, in pornography, where it is extremely common. The first naked woman I saw was a centerfold from Nave magazine taped to the inside of the closet in In my dad's apartment where he kept his non-perishable goods to this day, I still get an involuntary erection

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y time I see a package of paxo. I tried explaining that to my mother-in-law on Christmas Day although it's a good joke but it's not something I would really do with it's like a cheeky boy it's like a Lee Mac joke I like the cheeky boy next door so I like the lemak but I can't do that cheeky boy next door kind of thing I'm not the cheeky boy next door I'm an Oxbridge mafia cultural bully who wants to appear morally superior but couldn't cut the mustard in a panel or skin game cyan from Lemax's autobiography.

Honestly, a cultural bully and anyway, you don't cut the mustard, you spread it. idiot now what I remember most of what I've ever done to her nothing that I remember not really what I remember most about this central ship is um even though she was naked and in bed she had her socks on, that when I was eight or nine years old it seemed ridiculous to me to be in bed with socks on of course now I'm 45 it seems completely normal to me I mean I've been married for 10 years I don't remember the last time I took off my socks in bed all my pants to be honest, In fact, my wife said you have to wear the same pair of dirty old pants to bed every night.

I told her I don't have to love, but she will only wash more. I know it's not like that. the other is that you think it's a little sexist. He has done more washing for his wife, who obviously washes everything in their relationship, but that is not the case. That's your assumption. My wife doesn't wash everything in our relationship. We have a little Filipino who comes in and you know what's very good, yes, if Adolf Hitler came today you would send the limo anyway, that's what you are, that's your assumption, our slave is a man trying to breathe life into things.

I went to bed in a pair of old Primark jogging pants and my wife my wife told me that he makes me look like a Scottish heroin addict. I'll tell you more hits like this. I'm giving up making the effort. It's just another example of how pornography has unreasonably raised people's expectations. I have nothing against pornography and itself, as long as there is no profanity involved and the furniture in the shot is reasonably tasteful, but I hate the Internet because it has made access to pornography too easy. For young people it's too easy, I think for young people today they stumble upon pornography because it was difficult to watch pornography in the 1970s.

For young people today, all they have to do is temporarily wake up from the zombie coma induced by a skunk he obtained on the Internet. How is that? It seems boring. I think the Internet has completely disconnected today's youth from their imagination and their environment. a stick and a hoop climbing trees pulling baby frogs out of nests kids on the internet all the time, aren't they watching pornography on the internet and inciting each other to self-harm by legally downloading live DVDs from hard-working comedians? just young people, are you doing that?, if you've done it at home, if you've stolen one of my live DVDs from the internet, that's the same as just stealing food from my children's mouths, well, it's not exactly that , but it is. delays the point at which we have enough money to move into the sphere of influence of selective grammar, how are my children supposed to grow up to be social justice activists without the benefit of educational privilege?

I heard that that is the sound of the middle. classes applauding their own guilt but they are not absolved only god can forgive I hate the internet although everything about the internet I hate being out of sight and myspace and I hate jeeves I hate everything about this most of all I hate twitter and I'll tell you why, because if I had a mental breakdown and forget everything that happened to me, it wouldn't matter because I could go to Twitter and put my name in the search engine and gradually I would be able to piece together everything that happened to me because every 90 minutes one of you feels compelled to log on and make an update live of exactly where I am and what I'm doing 8 30am I can't believe what I just saw Stuart Lee taking his son to school on the 470 bus he looked depressed 10am I can't believe it I'm sitting next to Stuart Lee on the clock tower hybri cafe he's eating a bun he looks fat I can't believe it I have I just watched 11 30 I just saw Stuart Lee walking through Dalston Junction eating a falafel in the street He looked fat and depressed I hate Twitter It's like an agency of state surveillance staffed by gullible volunteers It's a stasis for the Angry Birds generation and that's you you are the Angry Birds generation, imagine that the shame of being the Angry Birds generation means nothing, you hate the Internet, it they will endure.

The kids where I live are like they were sent home from school, uh, with a book on how to be safe online. It is produced. and it's given away by Vodafone, presumably paid for with all the money they save thanks to massive tax evasion and it tells you how to avoid online predators and how to avoid online pedophiles, it doesn't tell children how to avoid marketing campaigns online because obviously that strikes at the very heart of the public-private partnership it is called digital parenting this book digital parenting thank God for that if there is something I can't

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its analog parenting the tears the mucus the vomit the endless declarations of love and the duty of care sheer endless human joy and Vodafone's digital parenting cover is an image of three adorable eight-year-olds sitting in a row on a sofa, but they are all engrossed in non-interacting handheld devices, computers and screens in no meaningful human way and through digital parentheses all these disguised advertorials about edutainment software that is absolutely necessary to buy Vodafone digital parenthood is like the fox's guide to chicken safety but the internet is absolutely disconnected young people of today from your imagination and your environment and this is not just this crazy little theory.

I have irrefutable evidence of this every year since 1987. I have driven up and down the A1 through Northumberland on the way to the Edinburgh festival and in Northumberland on the A1 on the coast. there is a small town called bottle shill s-h-i-l-b-o-t-t-l-e bottle shill and there are 10 bottle shield signs on the a1 and in the 1980s and 1990s the local young people had gone out and used their creative imagination, they had engaged with their environment in an imaginative but with a single movement of a marker change each of those 10 bottle accomplice signs on the a1 then they said bottle bottle four miles bottle three miles bottle two miles bottle one mile now you're entering the bottom bottle Northumberland twinned with who mosaic to the crazy france and scheiser flasher germany you probably think it's immature i used to find it very funny i would be driving there i would pass by the first boat but i will sign i think it's funny the second boat bottle sign i will laugh a lot at the third boat bottle sign.

I'll go hysterical at the ship's fourth bottle sign. I'll take your leader. The fifth sign on the bottle was irritating me. The sixth sign of the accomplice bottle. I was infuriated by the audacity of the people who continued. with this idea the seventh bottle sign i started to find it funny again the eighth while son i was laughing so hard the ninth bowl sign was already on its steroids by the tenth ball of shit so i used to have to pull off the road into a rest area in case I crashed and I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that making that trip twice a year for the best part of 30 years has been a huge influence on my approach to the

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ard, that's not what I find . the bottle itself, uh, hilarious, it's more about what it tells us about the human creative imagination, I know it seems silly to swap the protective bottle for the shipping bottle, that's the same human impulse as when the man from the ice age took a stone and looked into it, the venus of villendorf could have been sculpted when neolithic man looked at salisbury plain and could see the monuments of stonehenge and anything that could rise from that or when michelangelo looked at the Sistine chapel ceiling in white but could not Imagine how it could become the dome of heaven and that is the same creative impulse.

I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it's the same creative impulse that you see in that protective bottle, the boat bottle and the tragic now as you drive. Drive now down the A1 now that the internet has its spirals around our children's minds and they are not out and about, they are not interacting with their surroundings and none of those signs have been changed to say bottle and a lot. A lot of people tell me, well, if you like it, she bottles so much, why didn't you go live there? Or better yet, if you think the bottle is so brilliant, why don't you move to Devon or Dorset Steak, because in Devon there's a real town called Crapstone and in Dorset there's a real town called Shetterton, so if you think she'll bottle the bottle, it's great fun, why don't you go live in Crapstone or Shitton?

I won't do it. I don't get the idea of ​​fucking stone or becoming inherently funny there is no there is no human imagination I'm not going to stand and look at a craps sign and I'm not a child I'm not being abused by little for the stupid name is the is the bring to the practice of human creativity and that is what interests me. The only circumstances under which I would be prepared to move to Crapstone is if I could move to Crapstone with the express intention of establishing a shoddy mining business. Hello, Crapstone, Crapstone, your stone cabin has fallen down.

Well, what did you expect? The clue is in the name. Yes, see you at Watchdog. I'm not moving. No. I don't find Shitterton inherently funny and, in and of itself, the only circumstances in which I would be interested. moving to Shitterton is if I could move to Shetterton with the sole intention of establishing a business supplying one ton units and one ton units from Manila only. Hi Shitterton, one ton of you want three tons of manure, well we don't. don't do that we just I only sell it and I only sell it in one ton units I know you can't have three I can only I'll just let you have one good one I'll know it's you because hey I will I recognize your voice and secondly I think I'm not so busy that if you know someone I don't care, that's my problem, that's my prerogative if I just want to sell, I want some units, I don't care, I'll know.

If you are your friends, it is not like that, it has losses. They have never made a profit in 14 years. No, well, only if you think that's the purpose of making a profit, then yes, it's failing, but maybe I'm not. I don't see it as if the goal for me is to try to say something interesting about human beings. The thing about people that's me too is that I'm doing well but I have to put all the money into keeping the business in a black hole I'm actually filming some television well it's about this episode is about the Pornography and the human imagination and all this kind of stuff, well to be honest I haven't gotten into that, I had the first time naked.

The woman he oversaw was a centerfold from a ship's magazine taped to the inside of the closet where Dad's apartment kept his non-accessible goods. To do this, they still get a voluntary erection every time I see a package, so she tries to explain it to them. I know I've never done anything, I know you spread it, right? Don't know. It's strange. So, in the end, in the end, I was up for anyone to see me naked. Try to explain the incident. Well, I don't know, I'll finish. He calls for a blackout and says it's the end, no, no, that wasn't good enough, that's thebeauty of an improvisation with a fellow secondary asylum.

I can wait while I try to think of something, oh my God, um, oh, then, um, uh. I'm crying from laughter and also because I had a coughing fit halfway through it, so I had the pleasure of seeing this. live probably one of the first people to see him live because he did a show at the big South Bank show in London with a big audience and they actually mentioned me because I went to the bathroom and he was criticizing another man who went to the bathroom before me and then anyway uh that was a real honor um so it's interesting to have seen it live that It's the only time I've seen it live but um I don't think you appreciate when you see it when you see it on tape how fast everything moves, um heh, it's almost like every line is leading towards something else and then there are echoes of what you've already seen and he's playing all these little tricks and games with you.

While he goes and sees it live, it was strange, it was kind of mind-blowing and you're rushing to try to keep up with where you are and what's happening, obviously the first time too. I would have listened to the material once, so maybe that's partly it too, but I mean, what incredibly well-constructed stand-up comedy is, I mean, he often says he has to write for about an hour or an hour and a half. I guess he gets up every year um and he's like and that's really really hard um and you can see I mean the way he crafts this stuff so he comes in and starts all the Lee Max stuff which is very funny, um, he's a little arrogant.

Stuart Lee's character, um, that hate hates anyone who questions him, uh, and he's pretty angry at Lee Mack, uh, so there's all that stuff, then you introduce the topic of pornography and you have this whole part that really I like it, it's yes, my wife. my wife said uh where he's making fun of the old style uh panic bird uh he writes um in a nice way you know in a gentle way uh then there's this whole thing about not stealing uh comedian material um and he does the little details on camera, which is very cool because he's well known for dividing the room and of course, doing some television, he found a way to talk to the television audience and somehow alienate them. from the studio audience, that's a completely different element and then what else? um this is, there's so many things in this that it's actually quite difficult to go over and remember everything uh so you have the one thing that I wanted let's say it was the rule of three um so obviously the rule of three is a big thing in comedy. , it also appears in movies, um or plays, I guess, so you know something is referenced, it's referenced again and then the third time it's something like that. of the punchline, but he, the manager, and this is something I noticed in this whole series of the Stuart Lee comedy vehicle: he finds ways to abandon the rule of three, I mean, we have the rule of ten here, so I want say. he repeats the thing about the protective bottle to send the bottle um ten times um, which is already a little ridiculous and exaggerated, but then he comes back to it immediately and repeats it another 10 times um just to, you know, partly to pee. out of the audience, but I think that's probably my favorite part.

You know, that trip has influenced my approach to confrontational comedy. I mean, what a clever line. I remember hearing that for the first time and it just blew me away. like he demonstrated something and then described what he just did to you, um, I mean, he's well known for going on too long about something, uh, uh, that's a brilliant example and then after all this, I haven't even mentioned half. the clever little jokes and stuff, of course you get the telephone, which is very Bob Newhart-like and I suddenly remembered Bob Newhart, who was an American comedian who used to do the same sort of thing with a telephone. and you would get half the conversation very well acted very funny uh very well written um and I should give him some

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s too uh because he is extremely good uh but I mean brilliant um and then talk to the character who Is he essentially, um, about the

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and then oh yeah you can hear them laughing and the whole thing is just brilliant I mean it's kind of mind blowing um that's it I'm not going to go on any further but what great writing uh what a brilliant performance and , once again, Stuart Lee, hits the mark, thank you, thank you for watching, like, subscribe, etc., if you're still watching, if you're not still watching, you won't hear me say that anyway, so It is not like this.

It doesn't matter and no one will use it.