The Lee & Herring Appreciation Thread

HEB, you want the moon on a stick...

£11.50 it cost me

I forgot Simon Quinlank - and his weak lemon drink...

Hello! I am Simon Quinlank. You may know me by my hobbies, for I am not a hobby horse NO! I am a hobby lion or a hobby blue-whale for I am lord of the hobby animal kingdom and not just a horse which is RUBBISH...

Saw Richard Herring live last year, and he was very funny indeed.

Stu has a new BBC2 show - with some faces from the past
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
The actor Kevin Eldon, Paul Putner...
And now with added Simon Munnery
And produced by Armanado Iannucci

Basically filmed from a four night stand at the Mildmay Club in Stoke Newington, it's nice to see stand-up back on the front line, rather than another sketch show...

Press release:

''What does it say about our culture that the word toilet can be appended to the word 'book' to form the compound word toilet book? Toilet seat, yes. Toilet paper, yes. Toilet duck – you can even have toilet duck. But toilet book – surely not?''

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle marks the return to television of one of the finest stand-ups working in Britain today. Each of the six episodes sees Stewart exploring a different theme in a stand-up routine, illustrated with sketches featuring an ensemble cast.

In the first episode of this new series, Stewart looks at the phenomenon of toilet books. Where did they come from? And why? For some reason, someone, somewhere, thought history, fiction, poetry and the like weren't enough any more, and so they invented celebrity hardbacks, tragic lives and Dan Brown. Stewart takes a look at some of this new lavatory literature, including works by Asher D and Paddy McGinty's Goat, and finds out what would happen if Dan Brown got a job where he had to break bad news...

The Times interview Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle has become one of the viewing highlights of the week!

Really..? I've lost patience with it, I just wasn't getting enough laughs. The stand-up isn't bad, it's not great though, but then the segments in it are just really really shit. The jokes are too laboured. Not a patch on Richard Herring's last stand-up show.

Haha two (three) people on M&N know of Lee & Herring.

That said, nothings better than Lee & Herring. Cheg on twats.

Also, Stewart Lee's new Comedy Vehicle should be good, if his first Comedy Vehicle and Milder Comedian are any indication...

ProDelgado said about 1 year ago:
Really..? I've lost patience with it, I just wasn't getting enough laughs. The stand-up isn't bad, it's not great though, but then the segments in it are just really really shit. The jokes are too laboured

You're not familiar with Stewart Lee's stand-up, are you? There is no such thing as ''too laboured'' for Mr Lee.

Not a patch on Richard Herring's last stand-up show.

Eh... Your opinions are all topsy-turvy!

As much as I love Stewart Lee, and think his solo material has, on the whole, been far stronger than his former partner's, Richard Herring's 2009 show Hitler Moustache was better than Stewart Lee's 2009 piece If You Want A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One

p'haps. but I have only heard a bootleg of Milder Comedian, I shall judge it by its official release. Which, by the way, I hope includes the letter from the pirate.

By the way, I recommend Stew's (non-fiction) book, How I Escaped My Certain Fate

The transcripts in it are actually really good, too, as there are copious footnotes...

Morris Iemma said 1 hour ago:
Haha two (three) people on M&N know of Lee & Herring.

Four.

Five.

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out of context but still excellent

Stew threw a party for himself and didn't invite Rich

correction:

*Stewart Lee has written his own comic strip. His story, called The Property, features in the fourth issue of Clint magazine, out on December 2. It is said to be about a comic-book fan driven to obsession. The strip has been illustrated by Steve Yeowell, best known among aficionados for his work on 2000AD...

Oh, and they will be filming a second series of SLCV in January, at ther same club as last time

Interviews in new edition of Mustard magazine

Mr Lee is taking a year off

And will FoF finally get a DVD release??

''Well, funnily enough, we've just had an e-mail from the commercial arm of the BBC wanting to do it. A guy said, 'I can't believe this hasn't come out.' Rich is really excited about it. He said there was a note attached to the tapes that they've found saying we had blocked the release. I don't know what that's about, because we haven't. All the outtakes tapes are in a warehouse where they are within a few weeks of being destroyed. They're about to hit their dump-by date, so he's trying to claw them all back.''

FoF DVD would make me come.

out the window on a passer-by

Why does Stew want children, even a second child? I saw him talk about how he hated children once in the '90s and I was under the impression everything he said on stage were, apart from being jokes, in fact truth statements!

FromStew's 2010 albums in Sunday Times:

Bollock Sandwich - Nigger Time! (Mucho Grazia) Defiantly non-PC Portugese Felch Metal trio. A neo-Neu! racket mountain for the iPad degeneration. Suck it, daddy!

Thought it was funny.

STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE - Ticket Application

To apply for tickets, please complete IN FULL and submit the details below. We will process your application as quickly as possible and email you confirmation of your booking if successful.

This show will take place on Tuesday 11th, Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th January 2011
The venue is the Mildmay Club, 34 Newington Green, London N16 9PR
The nearest station is Canonbury (Silverlink Metro) - 15 mins walk
The doors open at 6.15pm

Tickets are limited so apply quickly
The minimum age for the show is 18 years

I live in Australia. As everyone should.

Woo-hoo!

E-TICKET - 'STEWART LEE’S COMEDY VEHICLE'

Stewart Lee, the most exciting, innovative, unpredictable comedian working in Britain today, is returning to BBC TWO for a second series of the critically acclaimed STEWART LEE’S COMEDY VEHICLE. Recording over three consecutive nights at the atmospheric Mildmay Club at Newington Green N16, the series sees Stewart tackle a different topic each week in his own inimitable style. Be there at the recording, so you can begin the backlash before anyone else has even seen it!
This ticket is for 4 people in your name on Wednesday 12th January 2011.

Love stu Lee. 90's comedian's gold. Loved the last one. And the first season of the vehical is really strong. I'm not a stand up fan - most of it really annoys me - but Stu I like.

The book is a great read and a good insight into how he comes up with his stuff.

This year's Chortle Awards announced

...Stewart Lee, who is about to return to BBC Two with his Comedy Vehicle, won best DVD for his show If You Would Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One. Lee’s former double-act partner Richard Herring also won an award for his podcast As It Occurs To Me...

Fist Of Fun to be released on DVD

Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s Nineties TV show Fist Of Fun is finally to be released on DVD for the first time. Independent label Go Faster Stripe has brought the rights to the cult BBC Two show, and plans to put the first series out by Christmas – after filming some extras in the summer.

Fans, led by Herring himself, have long lobbied the BBC to release the show, which first aired in 1995. Earlier this year, he blogged: ‘The BBC won't release the DVD and are even dragging their feet about letting us do it ourselves, arguing that they invested money in the show and haven't seen any return on that investment. Which might be because they have never released it. Only the BBC could think of asking for compensation for lack of revenue after they had made no attempt to make any money from a project.’

The rights have now been bought for a reported £15,000 – and Lee said: ‘Of course we can sell them after gigs and I don't think it should be too difficult to make the money back.’ In an interview with the Digital Spy website today, Lee deadpanned: ‘I think it's quite important for Richard's self-esteem… I think he feels he did something really good in Fist of Fun and it's never had the credit it deserved. I think it's really important for him to get it out there. I'm really happy for him that that's happening. I'm slightly ambivalent about it. I really liked the first series. I feel with the second series we were encouraged to make a number of artistically ill-advised compromises.’

Writing on Twitter, Herring said: ‘I am delighted that we'll be able to bring you Fist of Fun on DVD. We are going to make sure it has lots of great extras, but I think series one might be ready for Christmas. We have had to do the DVD ourselves though – at some expense – as the BBC don't think it was worth it. Let's prove them wrong.’

Stewart Lee vs. the Daily Mail

Comedy Programme
Nominees
Charlie Brooker’s 2011 Wipe
Comic Strip: The Hunt for Tony Blair
The Cricklewood Greats
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle

Stewart Lee wins the BAFTA for S2 of SLCV

Meanwhile, his former partner has been busy
Richard Herring Podcasts
The latest is with Charlie Brooker...

HEB - are you going along to any of his podcasts?

I've got tickets for his Edinburgh preview up in my neck of the woods.

RHLSTP #8 Stewart Lee

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

RHLSTP #8: Stewart Lee. Lee and Herring are back together, but they're old and chilled and less likely to talk about moons and sticks and all the other catchphrases that they used to do that they are now too addled to remember. There's some serious chats about comedy, but also some stupid stuff about being wanked off by the hand of a 100 year old ventriloquist dummy, egg obsessed crows and whether a satirist can accept an honour from the Queen. Cluub Zarathustra, a 1987 pact about what not to do in comedy, Jerry Springer and the changing status of the character Stewart Lee who is not the same as Stewart Lee also figure. But who smashed the kitchen cupboard doors in Edinburgh 2002? Will we ever know? No. It's chilled and relaxed and there are no rods of effluent, but I think you might like it. Hope so.

Download Episode 8 - Stewart Lee

That's awesome. I like the bit where Rich told everyone that Stew once wacked him off with a ventriloquist dummy's hand when he was upset and crying on the floor.

BBC Radio 4 Extra are repeating the original BBC Radio 1 series of First Of Fun from 1993, which led to the TV shows
Episode 1 will be online to stream until next Friday