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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (+JP DL)
Tags: 1958, 1980, 1996, BBC2, CD, Comedy, Download, DVD, Elias & His Zig Zag Jive Flutes, John Peel, Radio, Richard Herring, Social Comment, Stewart Lee, Television, The Pig's Big 78's, The Piranhas, Tom Hark, Top of the Pops, video
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
• The Format That Dare Not Speak It’s Name. Welcome Back To Adult Television.
I’ve only just got around to watching the first episode of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and it’s extremely rare these days I can empathise wholeheartedly with anything delivered via a sanctimonious mainstream media, but this was a wonderful exception.
For those that feel the merest hint of an insightful or intellectual thought made in public these days is likely to invoke a scene reminiscent of the threatening mob from Don Siegel’s 1956 classic allegory, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, switch your television to BBC2 at 10 O’clock on Mondays.
Armando Iannucci is Executive Producer. How much convincing do you need?
• John Peel Footnote
But that’s not all! Upon visiting Mr. Lee’s website I found a John Peel Show file for download. “16 October 1996 – Richard Herring and Stewart Lee appear on the John Peel show, a teenage dream”. You’ll find it in the archives section. I’ve not listened to it yet so I can’t advise on how it compares with the version/s already circulating. See also “John Peel stands in for Mark Radcliffe and Rich & Stew guest”
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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle BBC2
• Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is on Mondays at 10pm on BBC2
DVD & Music Update
Nice mash.
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is due out on DVD in September so no more posting links once it’s commercially available please. Once it’s released the links here will have to come down. What do you want, ‘The moon on a stick’? Actually while we’re on the subject, if you liked this series then seek out the two DVDs of him performing live. His comedy works even better in longer form.
“What’s that tune in Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle?”
The server logs reveal that quite a few people are arriving here as a result of searching for the theme music used over the opening titles of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. Well it’s Tom Hark by Elias & His Zig Zag Jive Flutes, from that ‘golden year’ 1958. It appears onJohn Peel and Sheila, The Pig’s Big 78’s – A Beginner’s Guide, and is available from Trikont Records, Klang, their UK distributor, or any one of these fine indie retailers. Also, via YouTube, the ’58 original, plus Brighton band The Piranhas’ 1980 vocal version on Top of the Pops.