The brilliant follow-up to Pope John-Paul II lollipops (from SLCV, S1E5)

  • Stewart Lee: If I were called in to construct a way of merchandising the face of Pope Benedict XVI, I would issue it as a set of warning stickers. You could put it on bottles of bleach to stop children drinking them.
  • Stew: Whose face is that?
  • Kid: Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Stew: What does that mean?
  • Kid: Poison.
There’s a lot of largely spurious articles these days about ‘What is the last taboo in stand-up? Is it jokes about race? Is it jokes about rape?’ Uh, it isn’t; in my experience of doing this for over five months, the last taboo in stand-up is a man trying to do something sincerely and well.
Stewart Lee on singing a song in a stand-up show, If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask for One

Bit of a splurge today.

I got my pass to Limestone Comedy Festival! That means I’ll be seeing Tig Notaro (doing stand-up!), Maria Bamford, Jackie Kashian, Pete Holmes (likely just doing YMIW), and Doug Benson (doing a movie interruption). I won’t be able to stay through Saturday night, but it looks like I’ll get to whatever 4:00 show I end up going to. This shall be hysterically exciting.

I got some Stewart Lee DVDs from Amazon UK, so I finally don’t feel like a horrifically immoral person for scrounging around Youtube looking for fragments of his shows that make little sense out of context. I got “If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask for One” and the first series of “Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.”

This is what money from church gigs does to me: it lets me consume comedy by atheists and potheads. (Of course, if you’re reading this and you’re in a position to hire me for a church gig or other job…I don’t mean it. But if I did (I don’t), that would be the sentence I would write. I did write it, but I don’t mean it. Unless you’re not in a position to hire me. Or if you don’t care. In those two cases, you know precisely what I mean. But I don’t mean it.)

My first taste of Thrash Lab goodness. The wonderful Patton Oswalt.

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