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So tonight on BBC2 you have more Stewart Lee followed by episode 1, series 1 of the Wire


If you haven't seen them I recommend them wholeheartedly


You will probably be non-plussed by episode one of the wire, but give it until Thursday or Friday and things will start to click into place


Worth the license fee alone I reckon

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So, the Stewart Lee thing...

Smug, knowing, obvious and not awfully funny. Is this some sort of cleverpostmodernironictypefing that shot over my head?


Sorry SMG, but I feel our taste in stand-up now parts ways...




(but bugger, didn't realise it was ep1ser1 of The Wire: have never seen this show and since you all bang on about it, I thought I should start at the beginning. ah well, i'm sure freeviewBBC9 will oblige at some point ;-))

Touche moos. Many thanks. Actually, have deliberately held off getting into yet another addictive American legal type show as I'm distractable enough as it is and I ned to get a bit of work done at some point! (note increased posting rate of late as representation of how much reading I should be doing ;-))




(The Unit is a 99% crap, proper guilty pleasure but strangely addictive; what's not to love about a show where the special forces wear jeans when everyone else is in full combat gear, kill some damn enemies of the US of A, then go home to their lovely wives, with whom we have enjoyed scandalous subplot activity?)

Aaagh, can't stand The Unit and was not surprised to find it's written by David "why use one word when 5000 words of sub-even-tarantino-quality fare will do" Mamet.


Yet, somehow, I watch it far too often, I think I like winding myself up. As you say, guilty pleasure. A bit like Star Trek in that respect, it's sh!t....but...

Re: Stewart Lee


The case against: Those sketches. Not only are they piss-poor but they deflate whatever momentum was building on the stand-up front. The show itself is fine but not a great example of his work


And I too disliked him when I first saw him.


Everything else however, I love. I wouldn't call it post-modern or ironic but it is very stylised.

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