Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - Series 1 [DVD]

Product Details

• Actors: Stewart Lee, Paul Putner, Kevin Eldon, Richard Webb, Stephen K. Amos
• Directors: Tim Kirkby
• Format: PAL
• Language English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 2
• Classification: 15
• Studio: 2entertain
• DVD Release Date: 7 Sep 2009
• Run Time: 180 minutes
  

By : Stewart Lee (Actor), Paul Putner (Actor), Tim Kirk (Director)|Rated:Suitable for 15 years and over|Format: DVD
Price : £5.49

Customer Reviews

The episodes are all excellent, and I enjoyed each one when they were broadcast. Top work, Mr Lee.
However, it is the extras supplied that enticed me into buying this 2 disk set.
Commentaries on each episode (Stew plus support), interviews with Armando Iannucci, and a 16 minute documentary about the making of the series.
I must warn Daily Mail readers against purchasing this DVD though. You may insult its intelligence.

In a world that celebrates idiocy and allows certain people the chance to make a comfortable living out of having no talent whatsoever, its comforting to know that someone as funny, cynical, and - damn it- intelligent, as Stewart Lee is fighting the corner for us non-morons. It saddens me that the likes of Lee Evans and Michael Macintyre (as nice to their mothers as they surely are) have become superstars with their safe, banal comedy while Lee and other luminaries e.g. Peter Serafinowicz seem constantly overlooked. (Nobody I know had heard of Stewart Lee or Serafinowicz's gem 'Look Around You' till I spread the word, unless I was just unlucky to work in a cultural desert.) What draws me to Lee is that he is unashamed about being clever, or being cynical. And in this X Factor/Britain's Got Talent culture where no one dares to criticize any more (I mean, look at Stavros Flatley; their awful, pointless act would have been laughed off stage 20 years ago) it is so refreshing to finally have someone see things the way I see them. His routine about celebrity books and celebrities in general is without doubt the funniest piece of stand up I have ever seen. I guess the best way to describe his humour is to descend into cliche: it's funny because its true. He sees things for what they are, and not how they would like to be seen. Anyway, buy this, discover there's more to 'alternative' comedy than Jimmy Carr and maybe one day soon there'll be a Stewart Lee Comedy Roadshow in a prime time schedule rather than a wonderful but unseen Vehicle tucked away in a graveyard slot.

 

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - Series 1 [DVD]