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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
{{Quote|"I don't know if you can make massive generalisations about people who voted to leave Europe anyway because people voted to leave Europe for all sorts of different reasons; and it wasn't just racists who voted to leave Europe... [[Beat]] ''Cunts'' did as well, didn't they? ''Stupid fucking cunts''. Racists and ''cunts''. And people with legitimate anxieties about ever closer political ties to Europe. "Dear Palace Theatre, South End, please inform the comedian (and I use that word advisedly) Stewart Lee - who I had the misfortune of being taken along to see by a friend last night - that I actually voted to leave Europe and I am neither a racist ''nor a cunt'', merely someone with genuine anxieties about ever closer political ties to Europe. Yours, ''A. Cunt''."}}
** Also see ''Hypocritical Humour'' below.
* [[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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