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Stewart Lee's comedy is noted for his extensive use of [[Deconstruction]] and [[Lampshading]] (to the point where he is likely to lampshade his deconstruction of a piece of [[Lampshading]] and then deconstruct himself doing so) and his ability to mine over half an hour's comedy from the most mundane of subjects.
He has so far released
He wrote a novel called ''The Perfect Fool'', and a book called ''How I Escaped My Certain Fate'' which is a sort of [[DVD Commentary]] on his first three DVDs.
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** He will also frequently tell a joke that is different from his usual style and then berate the audience for liking it, because it was shallow and simple-minded.
** Season 2 of Comedy Vehicle drives this home. He's told [[Executive Meddling|if he wants a third series]] he needs to put more jokes in it. So he comes up with 4 jokes, and within the first episode, he tells three of them. They aren't great jokes.
* [[Country Matters]]: masterful use of the 'c' word in his ''Content Provider'' show.
* [[Crossing the Line Twice]]. One of his favourite devices, pushing a particular routine as far as the audience will take it, and then further.
* [[Deconstruction]]: Lee loves to set a joke up or a particular set or style, completely ruin it, then spend the next 20 minutes explaining in detail every aspect of the joke and why it is funny.
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* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Lee's humour often revels in subverting this comedic rule, sometimes deliberately pushing it deliberately to reveal the absurdity of the jokes, other times just to save Daily Mail journalists a long and pointless email correspondence. His book "How I Escaped My Certain Fate" is basically him [[Better Than It Sounds|dissecting his routine and explaining the thought process behind each joke.]]
* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: From 'How I Escaped My Certain Fate'. "I'm sick of reading on Daily Mail message boards that I am 'one of these foul-mouthed modern comedians' when I am absolutely not. Honestly, who are these cunts?"
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: In a routine about interviewing Ang Lee about his making of [[The Hulk]], Stewart Lee milks a joke about 'Don't make me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee' for all it is worth (finishing with another incredibly lame pun about him going to the dentist at 2.30).
** This is a a [[Played Straight]] deconstruction of the way 'Ang Lee' is a homophone of the [[Engrish]] pronunciation of 'angry'. The 'milking' aspect illustrates the nuanced difference between ''naively'' saying something which ''sounds'' offensive, in contrast to ''intentionally'' saying something that ''is'' offensive. Only Lee could write/perform such a layered joke, and it only works because Ang Lee directed the Hulk, and the Hulk's [[Catchphrase]]. His genius is to notice the connection and mine a complex joke from it.
*** He noted on the [http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/plagiarists-corner/ Plagarist's Corner] of his website that Sarah Silverman plagarised this joke.<ref>[https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/129372230793707520 Joke theft] twitter.com</ref>
* [[Lame Pun]]: as the voice of Pliny, in the ''Histor's Eye'' segment of ''This Morning With Richard Not Judy (TMWRNJ)'', Lee provides many mainly egg and bird-based puns.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYrlUC4JLI Histor's Eye] youtube.com</ref>
{{Quote|''Egg!'' You said '''egg'!''}}
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: The reason for his appearing on a stream of quiz shows in 2006 was to pay for his wedding.
* [[One of Us]]: He has an
* [[Political Correctness]]: One of the few comedians to come out in favour of Political Correctness (or at least defend the principles behind it).
* [[Present Company Excluded]]: Real Life example, when Lee won the City Limits New Act of the Year competition, the judge told him 'Well done, we'll show those Oxbridge wankers like Rob Newman and David Baddiel what real comedy is". The judge then resorted to this trope when Stewart Lee informed him that he too was an Oxbridge gradate.
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* [[Screwed by the Network]]: ''This Morning with Richard Not Judy'' was jostled around a bit and at one point the show was moved from it's normal Friday slot to Thursday, only nobody at the BBC told anybody involved in the making of the show about it and the episode wasn't yet edited to be shown. So Lee and Co had to rush around to find an editing suite to get the show done in time.
** Also there is the infamous failed BBC show. That was commissioned and given the green light for a pilot. Then the BBC had a change of heart and required the pilot first before the series would get commissioned. Before finally being rejected a year after being commissioned with no pilot filmed.
* [[Speaking, Like, Totally Teen]]: His TV routine about rappers 'You know the rappers that they have now, on the top of the pops? And outside the shopping
* [[Take That]]: Chris Moyles, Dan Brown, Jeremy Clarkson, Jim Davidson, Joe Pasquale...the list is endless. When discussing common traits of his comedy, he mentions that it often involves "disproportionate hatred towards relatively innocuous figures."
** Lee even has a special section of his website called [http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/plagiarists
*** Plagiarist's Corner is most likely an ironic venture, in that most of the material has only passing similarities which get more bizarre as you go through the list.
*** And that sometimes it's him being the plagiarist.
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Richard Herring.
== References ==
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