Top Gear Sucks
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waterproofbob
Junior Administrator
Top Gear is awesome and Stewart Lee is a massive tool. Don't need to watch this vid to confirm either of those facts. Not saying some stuff he does isn't funny but for the most part I just find him very very irritating.
Xylak
New Member
Well, I've grown to like him over the past couple of years.
Taken out of context, he's easily seen as offensive but he turns it around and fires it straight at those that should be targeted.
Still, your opinion is yours.
Michael Macintyre, for instance, annoys the hell out of me.
Huung
Well-Known Member
Agreed on this ;D
Wol
In Cryo Sleep
Hmmm.
For those of you who don't watch comedy, making unfunny remarks for 99% of the time only to hit one punchline at the end - that's not comedy.
I watched the first two minutes and didnt laugh, so I'm not going to waste any more time, just to possibly not miss the point by having to watch it to the end.
I guess that just proves that he's not a comedian?
Spicypixel
New Member
Lee is basically the more serious, slower paced version of Charlie Brooker. Except no where near as good.
Xylak
New Member
Comedy does not have to be punchline after punchline - although I do like comedy like that at times, Tim Vine and Stuart Francis are brilliant examples of that. Comedy does not have to be a belly-laugh-a-minute either. Lee doesn't really do "setup/punchline" much so if you have to be shown and told when to laugh, you'll never get him.
Really, I am surprised that so many people here are so blinkered and that you're not open minded enough to watch it through.
Xylak
New Member
I like CB a lot. Very caustic. Although he's a journalist, really, with a comedic bent.
Huung
Well-Known Member
It's nothing to do with being blinkered, it's not wanting to watch something which is clearly not enjoyable. It's like being told to watch a chick flick for 15 minutes because there's a nipple slip at the end. Totally not worth the rest of the pain when you could just go and watch a film made entirely of boobage.
Kasatka
Active Member
Yeah i'm really not blinkered... i'll happily watch Jason Rouse cause i find him entertaining. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdzS0QidEhw&feature=player_embedded#at=452
Tempscire
Active Member
I quite like Stewart Lee sometimes. This clip was amusing at times (although not his best by far) and Xylak is right, the ending does tie up that he's satirising Top Gear. But I can certainly see why not everyone would find him funny. I think he revels in being a polarising figure and being pretty brutal which is a turn off for some people.
Wol
In Cryo Sleep
Well the whole "hamster" "milk" shit is the sort of humour I expect from 1) 12 year olds and 2) retarded chavs.
I would have thought that an older comedian could have come out with something more intelligent than making milk drinking noises.
And I'm with Huung on this one - I'm not going to sit through something thats not funny only to get one punchline at the end.
And no, I don't have to be shown when to laugh - I just dont find that sort of childish mocking funny, as I appreciate more intellectual and intelligent humour.
But each to their own.