Fun might be stretching it, but Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (Thursday, BBC Two) continues its fourth season of his scorched earth approach to stand-up and real-life hypocrisy. This week the focus was on Islamophobia, but he also dealt with Quakers and porridge, Mormons* (their Watchtower magazine, to be precise), as well as the average angry Islamophobe watching telly. He even managed plenty of digs at comedians who have a preference for observational comedy.
I spent the opening few minutes laughing my head off, but most of the time I just marvelled at a comedian who, with razor-sharp wit and great timing, cut through more crap than any comedian I’ve heard or seen since Bill Hicks. Thursday nights on BBC Two, though. It’s a wonder it’s not in Danish, using subtitles and desperately grim.
*Note – this bit did not reference Mormons, as stated in this article, it referenced Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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