The great thing about Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, now in its deadpan fourth season, is that there are no extreme physical challenges involved in it; just extreme intellectual ones. You’d have thought that there wasn’t much usefully innovative you could do with stand-up (and I don’t mean take it on a hike across the north of England), but Lee and his script editor Chris Morris, whose reputation goes before him, proved that, well, there is: a masterful reinvention of the witty aside.
The mordant joyfully mated with the whimsical; and post-post-post modern interviews of Lee by Morris. Every frame of the Comedy Vehicle is freeze-dried to ironic perfection, containing more layers than a mille-feuille pastry, a textural delight. This is something to watch and something for your brain to work out on, while your bum is planted firmly on the sofa, a lager in your hand, let us say.
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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John Robins, Comedian
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian