The Medium is Not Enough TV blog http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/ It's not enough just to watch television. You have to blog about it, too. en Copyright 2010 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:42:10 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Review: The Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle 1x1

The Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle

In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, BBC2

Some say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Oh, like they'd know.

They're wrong of course: the lowest form of wit is punning, and if they'd watched Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle on Monday they'd have realised they're wrong, too. Because Stewart Lee has perfected sarcasm.

]]> (continued) http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2009/03/review_the_stewart_lee_comedy_vehicle_1x1.php http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2009/03/review_the_stewart_lee_comedy_vehicle_1x1.php British TV Featured articles Lee Majors Reviews TV TV reviews Chris Morris Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:42:10 +0000 Rob Buckley Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle Stewart Lee's got a new series starting soon – Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, which begins March 16th on BBC2 at 10pm. You can read an interview with him about it (and other things) over at The Scotsman.

In the meantime, here's a little documentary (in two parts) called Don't Get Me Started in which he discusses blasphemy and its place in comedy with various religious types – and Alan Moore, who's religious in a completely different way. It's not that funny, but it's interesting.

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The full edition is finally to be released on CD, as part of a collection of five 30-minute episodes, a Christmas special and the original pilot episode by Warp Records on November 24.

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]]> http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/08/armando_iannucci_talks.php http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/08/armando_iannucci_talks.php British TV Lee Majors Morris Minors TV Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:44:04 +0000 Rob Buckley Lee Majors: Some stand-up classics Stewart LeeAnd now another new blog feature. Get your fish out and put them by the side of your monitor: it's time to worship at the shrine of Stewart Lee.

This one's going to be looking at the highlights of his career - some of his most important work, in fact - so naturally, what else would I call it except “Lee Majors”?

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