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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

Well just that. He's not funny. He tells stories, great ol' yarns but the punchlines aren't there. A couple that spring to mind -- The one about 'you wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee' with the punchline being (after about 13 minutes set up) some crap about Ang Lee going to the dentist. I'm not certain I even 'got' that joke.

Another one was where he was contemplating allowing Cherrie Blair come see him backstage at one of his performances of Jerry Springer-The Opera. His morals say that he shouldn't allow he, or that he should say something to her about Tony's bullshit war (what with him being quite left-ist). The problem is though that Cherrie's bringing her friend who is a head-boss in S.C.O.P.E. So he can't decide if he should meet them both and be civil to the S.C.O.P.E person and have a pop at Cherrie, or just ignore them both. His punchline is something about asking the S.C.O.P.E person if there's any clothes for deformed babies that Cherrie's husband bombed. I know, convuletd and never-ending. Not funny!

Hard to explain. Watch '90s Comedian' and 'Stewart Lee Standup' (filmed in the Stand actually), those are where the jokes are from. Rubbish.

Again, I totally am in tune with him, as far as policies go (particularly on religion and political correctness) and I do empathise with him for this problems with the Jerry Springer stuff in 2007, but he doesn't crack me up.

See, I don't see him as a punchline comedian. For example, I don't think the dentist thing in the Ang Lee bit is meant to be a punchline at all. Comedy doesn't have to rest on punchlines. He's a really funny teller of tales.