Stewart Lee: Basic Lee | movie | 2022 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

The unorthodox comedian’s latest act, an introspective look into people, culture and the essence of stand-up itself -  | dG1fTTk5bDlQdXp0MFk

Transcript

00:00What it is with me is I'm coming to a place and people don't know I am and they look in the

00:04brochure and they go should I go and see this Stuart Lee? Should I go and see him? And then

00:09their friends go yeah you should yeah you should go and see him really it's the sort of thing that

00:15you should you should go and see like it's a necessary but unenjoyable experience.

00:22A bit like when you're on holiday in Eastern Europe and you're having a really great time

00:25but just down the road there's the scene of some awful World War II atrocity you know

00:32and your partner goes we should we should go and see that really because we're here

00:39and then you go well I'm in the sea I'm having a well we're here we should we've come I've got a

00:45pina colada we should go and see it and then you go and see it don't you and it's awful and it

00:50makes you despair of all humanity and you have a horrible and I'm the that of comedy basically.