Stewart Lee calls time on shit UK comedy at last

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Tue, 17/03/2009 - 00:00 By chrisns

Spending far too long in the TV comedy wilderness, Stewart Lee finally returned to our screens last night. Across 30 minutes on BBC2's Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, he swept away all the awful, pointless, moribund 'comedy' that has been stinking up the TV schedules for the best part of this millennium.

If you haven't seen it, set aside half an hour today to watch him on the BBC iPlayer and applaud loudly as erudition and daring is brought back to UK comedy. His show is a reminder of how great UK comedy was in the past and how great it can still be.

Watch Stewart Lee here.

Let's hope that this show is seen by those journeymen comedians with their own mediocre shows and endless lukewarm panel show appearances. And let's hope that they are shamed into realising that their 'Will this do?' approach simply won't do. Not any more.

So, in no particular order, can the following people pack up their stuff and, well, fuck off?

-Michael McIntyre

-Corden and Horne

-Katy Brand

-Walliams and Lucas

-Al Murray

-Russell Brand

-Russell Howard

-Andy Parsons

Thanks.

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