Be Excellent To Each Other

Hello!

I know FOR A FACT that there is a contingent of the BeeX/WoS StewieLee+RichieHerrers fans here, so here is some EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES INFO about the show. Infact every time I've been to something 'big' in london, a couple of people here have also been too*, so did anyone else go?

You see, I'm just back from watching Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle being filmed.

Going to see shows being filmed is awesome because it is free. Back in the dawn of time we tried to see the pilot being filmed, but it filled up before we got in. So we got turned away. But as a sorry note the TV peeps gave us priority access for another show. Somehow we managed to turn down all the subsequent SHIT they offered us (ALAN TITCHMARSH ANYONE?).

So a good 18 months later (i think) we still had the priority tickets for the actual filming. Due to a little mix up, only a few of us went to this show, and the rest of my mates are going tomorrow, but I can give you an EXCLUSIVE REVIEW of THREE EPISODES!

* cough cough *

Firstly, lower your expectations slightly. If you have seen Lee live recently or bought his excellent Gofaststripe DVDs then you need to that he has had to comprise a little to get on TV. You can't make gaping anus jokes on BBC 2 it seems. But it was really really damn good.

NEVERTHELESS, it was excellent. Slightly shakey first episode we saw (but obviously better than the rest of the pap you get on tv) followed by some Really. Good. Shit.

It's just pure stand up.

No TV gimmicks, just 25mins or so of stand up. In a old fashion club like place. We all sat round tables like at an award ceramony or something. We had to move though, because we sat next to woman originally who was mental. To the extent that I was actually rude to her, which is unprecedented for me.

I'm really quite excited by it being on tv. It is worthy.

Also, as it will be on iplayer, you can all play, find the Lave.

Stewie Lee on the TV.


* Oh the drummers boobies!

I am envious of you.

Context: I am drunk.

Also: I've had a brilliant idea for eurovision.

Instead of getting Graham Norton, they get Peter Serafinowiz to 'play' Terry Wogan.

Basically, it's like James Bond but in this case the first Terry Wogan just so happens to have actually existed, rather than being fictional.

His christmas special where he did a stoned Terry Wogan presenting Points of View was one of the funniest things I've seen in ages.

So did he drop the whole "stand up in unusual places" angle mentioned on his most recent DVD?

BBC3 must do this.

Also I saw aome warm up shows for this so I'm glad to see it's stayed good.

*Nods*

Plus, he's the only impressionist in the world who can be interviewed without lapsing into a cringeworthy impersonation of at least two celebs du jour.

In related news, Jon Culshaw needs shooting square in the head.

"Oh, and what do you think Tony Blair would have said about that?"

Serafinowiz is fantastic, and Lave's news about a TV vehicle for Lee is brilliant.

A glorious time for all comedy!

My favourite Serafinowicz titbit is how he did the original "Letters of Anthony Hopkins" for Lee and Herring's mid-90s radio show.

Zip forward a few years and the Hopkins bits are resurrected for TMWRNJ only with an uncredited Mark Gatiss doing Hopkins.

Also, Richard Thomas dressing up as Darth Maul behind the keyboard and overdoing his voice in a way that was entirely at odds with how he sounds in the film, being calmly voiced by Serafinowicz.

CYCLICAL

kind of

I saw him do rehearsals for this back in December, and one of the sections about Chris Moyles's second book & jazz records was some cracking stuff.

It is Stewart Lee, it is good. But you wouldn't like him when he is Ang Lee