All language subtitles for www.TamilRockers.ws - Stand Up (2019)[Malayalam HDTVRip - x264 - 700MB]

I don't normally do music stuff,
but it's my ambition, by 2015,

to become an entirely
music-based act.

LAUGHTER

I've been watching Tim Minchin
over the years and I...
No, he's really good.

But... But in December
he did the O2 and, er...

some of the tickets were £195,
so I thought I'd try and do that.

LAUGHTER

We'd shake off this audience.

LAUGHTER

People keep saying it's the same
week after week.

You know, the same going on
about nothing.

I thought, "Well, I'll sit down.

"That'll be different to
when I'm standing up."

And I remember when I was growing up,
a lot of comics used to sit down.

Dave Allen, Ronnie Corbett,

Jasper Carrott, Mike Harding,
they were all sitting down.

And in lieu of not having any jokes,
I thought maybe if I sat down...

people wouldn't notice.

Can we have the singer-songwriter
lighting state, please?

LAUGHTER
WOMAN: Whoo!

STRUMS GUITAR
So, I'm going to do a song.

I'm going to do it
in about 25 minutes' time,

and I'm going to hang on to
the guitar until then.

Um, and the reason I'm doing that
is because, er...

the stuff in this show,
it's all a bit loose and improvised.

It's not very good, basically.

But I've been watching
the musical comedy acts

and I've noticed that audiences
are a lot more forgiving
of poor material...

if it's performed by someone
with a guitar or a piano.

PICKS A NOTE

Especially if they're tuning up,
have you noticed that?

If you're tuning up, you can...
It's like you're doing something,
isn't it?

So you can do quite a rubbish joke
while you're tuning up as if,

"Oh, I just thought of this,"
you know...

as an aside, and people go,
"Oh, that was funny, you know,

"given that it wasn't
really material,

"just something you just thought of."

But the same thing,
if you actually said it

down the barrel like you meant it,
people go, "That's not good enough."

ARMANDO IANNUCCI: Are you
the alternative to comedy?

STEWART LEE: I think I am.

"You're the alternatives to comedy."

- But now I think there's...
- Which is very funny.

It was funny,
but there's so much comedy now.

Any time you turn the telly on,
somewhere you can find
some stand-up comedy,

and I think I'm the alternative
to that.

It looks like stand-up comedy.

"I'm the relief. You know,
if you're fed up with
all the comedy..."

Yeah, here's something. He's a bloke,
there's a microphone there,

- but...
- What would you call it, then?

- Stand... Well, you know...
- Stand-up tragedy?

- No, it's not tragedy.
- Stand-up... Sit-down...

- Sit-down misery?
- No... Well, sit...

No, I'd just call it, you know...

Standing. A man standing.

It was very different in the '80s,

when I started the comedy,
alternative comedy.

It wasn't like now. There's loads of
clubs now, aren't there, and gigs?

It wasn't like that. It was only...
Like where I was,

in the Midlands,
there was one gig in Coventry,

there weren't really any
in Birmingham,

so I had to come down to "that
London" to do the alternative comedy.

And I had a job for about the first
18 months while I got going.

Er, I worked in the library
at Kew Gardens,

putting the books away, you know.

And, er, after about 18 months,

I got enough little gigs in pubs
to become a comic

and I went in on a Friday night,

and I handed my card in
to the head librarian

and I said, "I don't need this
any more, I'm quitting."

She said, "Why, what
are you doing instead?"

I said, "I'm going to
become a comedian."

And she said,
"Oh, you never seemed very funny."

LAUGHTER

I don't know what I was supposed to
do in the library, you know.

In silence.

Put the books away in a funny way.

Going up the ladder, "Ohhh!"
LAUGHTER

"Ah, help! I've put that one
in the wrong bit."

LAUGHTER

But, er...
HE CHUCKLES

Funny thing is that as I was leaving,
the other librarian

turned to her and said, "I think
he is a funny librarian, actually.

"It's just that you have to have seen
a lot of other librarians

"to realise what it is he's doing."
LAUGHTER

And the other one went,
"No, you're wrong."

LAUGHTER

She said, "You're either
a funny librarian or you're not,

"and he's not a funny librarian."

And the other one said, "Well he is,
because he is a librarian,

"but he also... It's like
he comments on what a librarian is."

LAUGHTER

And then the first one,
the head librarian, said,
"Well, that's as may be,

"but I guarantee if he takes
that approach

"on...on BBC Two late at night
in 21 years' time,

"people will be turning off
in their thousands."

LAUGHTER

And the second one said,
"He won't care.

"He'll see it as part of the process
of refining the audience."

And the first one said,
"You can't refine nothing."

LAUGHTER

GLASS TINKLES

And then the other one said,

"What will he do if a glass
falls over in the room?"

"Will he say, 'Someone's dropped
their contact lens?'"

And the other one said,
"He will say that,

"but he'll say it as part of a quote
in inverted commas..."

LAUGHTER

"..to show that he could have done it
if he'd wanted to,

"but that it's simultaneously
beneath him."

And the other one,
I forget which one it is now...

will say, "So he sort of has his cake
and eats it, then, at the same time."

And the other one says, "Yes, he's
going to be the kind of act...

"He does comedy, but he does it
as if he's better than it."

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

And then the other one said,

"Then..." The other one,
I don't know which one it is now.

I can't remember. One of them likes
me, the other one doesn't.

I don't know!

There's people wandering around,
breaking glasses.

How am I expected to concentrate
on an imaginary discussion

between two different librarians
20 years ago?

Then I went, "I am here, you know."

LAUGHTER

The first one goes, "I tell you
what your problem's going to be.

"You're going to be the kind of act
that improvises themselves
into a corner."

LAUGHTER

But are we going to get
something really good?

Are we going to get a big,
funny ending,

rather like The Two Ronnies
always ended with a musical number?

Um, yeah, I think so.

There's not dancing, but, um...

er, I think it's a way forward,
the comedy song.

I think it's a way forward for me.

BENDS NOTE

LAUGHTER

That's what they do, isn't it,
the musical comedians?
They ramble on for a bit

and then they do something like that
and people go, "Ha-ha!"

LAUGHTER

Um...

It's very different now, comedy,
to when I started in the '80s.

It's all about all sorts of stuff
now, stand-up, isn't it?

All kinds of things
people talk about.

Back then in the '80s, stand-up was
mainly about hating the Tories,

pretty much exclusively.

It was very different then, comedy,
in the '80s. What used to happen in
the '80s,

what the comedy was in the '80s,

was a load of people
and they all hated the Tories,

and they went out to a place
and there was a guy on stage there

and he hated the Tories,

and he'd go, "I hate the Tories!"

And the audience would go,
"We hate the Tories as well!"

And they'd go home happy -
67p well spent.

LAUGHTER

It's very different now, the comedy,
isn't it? I've seen it.

I've seen some of it on, um...
the Roadshow on telly

and it's in all stadiums
and things now, isn't it?

It's amazing, comedy. It's very
different. What the comedy is now

is not like the '80s. What it is now,

it's a load of people and they all
hate their electrical appliances...

LAUGHTER

..and they go out to a place
and there's a guy on stage there

and he hates his
electrical appliances

and he goes,
"I hate my electrical appliances!"

LAUGHTER

And the audience goes, "We hate
our electrical appliances as well!"

And they go home happy -
£47.50 well spent.

LAUGHTER

"I hate my toaster,
it's only got two settings.

"Black, burnt charcoal or just warm
bread. It's only got two settings."

LAUGHTER

It's broken, innit?

Mate, that toaster's broken.

They wouldn't make a toaster like
that, would they?

They wouldn't,
there'd be no market for it.

It would... It would be rejected
at the design stage.

"Mr Morphy Richards,
I've got an idea for a new toaster."

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yes, it either burns the bread black

"or it doesn't do anything to it."

"We're not going to make
that toaster, son."

"There'd be no market for it.

"Put the plans in the bin,
put them in there."

It's broken, innit?

If you've... If you've got a toaster

and it either burns the bread black
or it doesn't do anything,

it's not a new kind of toaster,
it's broken, all right?

Take it back.

And they'll...they'll change it
if you've got a receipt.

Go in and go...

LAUGHTER
They'll go, "What's that?"

You'll go, "It's my toaster,
I got it here.

"It either burns the bread black
or it doesn't do anything to it.

"I thought it might be
a new kind of toaster."

They go, "It isn't. It's broken.

"Have you got the receipt?"
"Yes." "We'll change it."

If you've got the receipt,
you'll be all right.

LAUGHTER

Have you ever seen that,
a TV record where people walk out?

LAUGHTER

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

This isn't a mistake, this is my act!

LAUGHTER

You keep your receipts, do you?
You should do.

You should!

When I was young, I didn't. I...

You lived a transitory...
You don't hang on to things.

But now we've got a file
by the fridge and we put all
the receipts in there now.

You have to have them to...
If you're going to change a thing,
you need the...

And it...it's more complicated
than it used to be, as well.

When we were kids, the receipt,
that was the guarantee, wasn't it?

The receipt was proof of purchase,
but it was also the guarantee.

But now... No, it was. It was!
But now you have to...

The receipt is proof of purchase,
but the guarantee, you have to...

you often have to phone up
or go online, don't you?

A palaver, innit?

LAUGHTER

But still, keep your receipt anyway.
Keep them...

LAUGHTER

Keep the receipt and...

probably, you know...

But register for the...

LAUGHTER

I am aware, er...

..that when I try and do
observational comedy...

LAUGHTER

..it can drift...

..into consumer advice, really.

LAUGHTER

You know,
that's why I'm on in these, er...

these little rooms, you know,
not like the O2 or something.

LAUGHTER

I did a lot... I did a Christmas run
in London. I did 20,000 people.

Theoretically, I could do...

the O2. I'm not showing off,
but I could.

But... But the guy...
the guy came from the O2

to see the live show and he said,
"Oh, you can't do that there."

LAUGHTER

He said, "I've got 18,000 people,
I've got 15 massive screens,
you know.

"You can't have a bloke just going on
about receipts and stuff."

LAUGHTER

I thought you could. I... You know,
it'd be all right, wouldn't it?

I'd go and see that,
it'd be interesting.

CHUCKLES
I said to him,

"What about this, right?

"I'll go on first and do half an hour
about receipts and stuff before,

"and then you have a proper BBC
One/ITV observational comedian on,

"and then they can do all stuff
about toasters breaking and that

"and the audience will laugh,
but they won't have to worry."

LAUGHTER

Because they'll know from me,

from listening to me, that they're
probably covered, you know.

LAUGHTER

If they've kept the...the paperwork,
you know. It'd... It'd be like

an emotional safety net, that,
the first set, you know.

LAUGHTER

People that walked out will be
annoyed they missed that, won't they?

LAUGHTER

"What did I miss?"

"Well, er..."

LAUGHTER

"The time...passed."

LAUGHTER

"What did he talk about?"

"Nothing, really."

Why don't you go back to working in a
library, where you have to be quiet?

- Like that.
- Yeah.

It was very different,
though, the '80s.

I mean, the weird thing
about doing comedy now

if you did comedy in the '80s,

is loads of the things we used to
talk about have come back.

We used to do jokes
about the Conservatives.

The Conservatives have come back.

There were strikes and riots. Well,
there's strikes and riots again now.

There was a royal wedding.
There's a royal wedding now,

that has come back.

The IRA are coming back as well,
aren't they? Which is good, I think.

LAUGHTER

They said they were, didn't they,
in September? They went,
"We're coming back."

They don't seem to have
done anything,

but I hope they do come back
because I think they're good.

LAUGHTER

I didn't used to.
I didn't used to like them,

you know, like anyone
in the old days.

The IRA? I could take it or leave it,
you know.

LAUGHTER

I didn't like them, actually,
I'll tell you,

but...but, um...

since they stopped...

Well, they wound down a bit,
didn't they, in '98?

Um...

This other lot have come in, haven't
they? Have you seen them, al-Qaeda?

TITTERING

LAUGHTER

Can't bear them.

LAUGHTER

No, I think they're absolutely awful.

Why are they even here, al-Qaeda?

We've got our own terror people,
haven't we?

We've got the IRA and there's
the Cornish lot, weren't there,
in the...?

Sons Of Glen...Glendower
or something. Any of those
guys could have...

You know, I don't know why they have
them over, really, but, um...

I don't like them. I hate al-Qaeda,
actually. I hate them.

No, I do. I hate al-Qaeda.

You know, I'm sorry if that's not
politically correct, um...

I don't like them. I don't like them.

I don't.

If you look back on the IRA, that was
proper... You know, I'll tell you...

IRA, they were the '60s, '70s,

'80s... That was a golden age
of mainland terror.

LAUGHTER

It was. You know, we...we've never
had it so good, and you...

Not like al-Qaeda. They're rubbish,
aren't they, al-Qaeda? Awful.

Look back on the IRA,
they were brilliant. They had...

There were so many good things about
them, weren't there?

They had, um... They had achievable
aims, which I thought was good.

"What are your aims, IRA?"

"United Ireland, Brits out."
It's all right, innit?

LAUGHTER

You can get round the table and
discuss that kind of aim, can't you?

That's what happened, wasn't it,
at Stormont, in, er...?

What do al-Qaeda want?

Al-Qaeda want the destruction of
Western civilisation in its entirety.

LAUGHTER

It's pie in the sky.

LAUGHTER
It is, it's pie... I'm sorry!

They're living on...
They're living on Fantasy Island.

LAUGHTER

They're idiots! "What do you want?"
"Just everything destroyed."

Ridiculous, innit?

You can't get round the table
and negotiate towards that, can you?

You can't go,
"Thanks for coming in, Mr Bin Laden.

"Obviously we won't be able
to agree to all your demands.

"Here's Lowestoft."

LAUGHTER

Stupid, aren't they?

I can't... I can't stand them.

They're so miserable,
aren't they, al-Qaeda?

Miserable. "Oh, I'm in al-Qaeda."
Urgh!

I'll tell you why I like the IRA.
There's a levity about it,
isn't there?

They're... It's fun, innit?
They do... You know.

It is.

They did murals, didn't they?
Have you seen them?

They're brilliant.

You don't have to agree with
the politics to say they are good
murals, and they are.

They are. If you go to Belfast,
that used to be a dump,

and now there's all
coloured pictures everywhere,

blokes with hats on and stuff,
it's fantastic.

And waving out of...
Absolutely brilliant.

Like Banksy or something,
it's fantastic.

They're not professional artists
either, a lot of those people.

They just did their...best, you know,
they had a go, and I think that's...

There's no al-Qaeda murals,
are there?

I asked an Islamic scholar,
"Why is that?"

And he said it's because

in a fundamentalist interpretation
of the Koran, there can be

a cultural anxiety about the
depiction of the human form.

I thought,
"That's very convenient, isn't it?"

LAUGHTER

You know, if you're lazy
and miserable.

Another bloke going. Amazing, isn't
it? Go on, off you go then, get out.

Go on, go. Go on.

TITTERING

Amazing, isn't it?
I've never seen anything like it.

LAUGHTER

Such a weird crowd.

There's people going, "If he's
having a go at al-Qaeda, I'm off!"

LAUGHTER

Absolutely incredible.
Never ever...known that happen.

I mean, I take a perverse degree of
pride in it, to be honest...

that people that have queued up
for three hours still think,
"Don't really like it."

It's quite hard to get tickets for
this, isn't it? You have to...

Unbelievable.

LAUGHTER

In the Roadshow, they cut away to
like Gok Wan laughing and stuff,
don't they?

Esther Rantzen going, "Aw!"

I'd like to intercut... Instead of
reaction shots from celebrities,

I'd like a slow parade
of people just walking out.

It'd be good.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

You know, I'm sorry
if there's people out there

going, "Why's he having a go
at them?"

I don't like them, all right?

That's just my...thing, you know.

Why are they even here?

But the thing about the IRA, right,
is they were nice, right, basically.

Compared to al-Qaeda they were...

They'd ring up, wouldn't they?
They'd ring up first.

LAUGHTER

They'd go, "We're going to
blow your bank up."

You'd go, "Oh, thanks, I'll go home."

I know that didn't always happen.
I'm not an idiot.

But I'm saying, it doesn't take
a second, does it, to phone up?

Al-Qaeda just flying planes
into things out of nowhere,
"Deal with that."

Rude.

I'll tell you, I...

The thing about me, right,

I...I take people as I find them,
you know.

I don't care...
LAUGHTER

I do! I don't care what your religion
is, or your race, or...

where you're from, or your money.

I judge people on what
they're like, yeah,

and I find al-Qaeda to be rude.

LAUGHTER
I do.

I think they're louts and I think
that they... They are! They're louts!

And they should look
at the IRA and...

The thing about the IRA, right,
is they were...

..they were decent, British
terrorists.

LAUGHTER

They didn't want to be British.

LAUGHTER

But they were.

LAUGHTER

And as such, they couldn't help
but embody some fundamentally
decent British values.

And I hope they get going again,
and I hope the al-Qaedas look at them

and go, "Oh, we should
pull our bloody socks up and..."

Here's a question. Who else,
apart from the IRA,
makes you proud to be British?

Um...

- Doctor Who, I think.
- Doctor Who?

Yeah, I know that seems mad and he's
a fictional character, but...

He's, technically...
He's not British.

OK, well, it wasn't a very good
answer. Ask me the question again.

Who else, apart from the IRA,
makes you proud to be British?

No-one?

Not no-one. I'm not being
unpatriotic,

I'm just trying to give a good answer
and I can't...

Sally Gunnell?

- Yeah, all right, Sally Gunnell.
- Why?

Ask me again, who
makes me proud to...

All right. Who else, apart from the
IRA, makes you proud to be British?

Sebastian Coe, I think.

- Sebastian Coe?
- Yeah.

That's the best you can do,
Sebastian Coe?

- Yeah.
- Because he's on the news a lot?

No, he's... You know, he helped with
the Olympics and he could run fast.

Ask me again.

Who else, apart from the IRA,
makes you proud to be British?

Oh, I don't know.
I-I-I didn't expect to be asked that.

I th...

Sting?

Yeah, Sting.

Why?

That al-Qaeda/IRA routine,

that was some irony I was doing
there, a bit of irony.

And, er...

irony, that's one of the, er...

the new things we have in comedy.

We didn't have that in the '80s
when I started out, irony.

Basically, in the '80s,
when a stand-up went on stage,

what they said, that was
the same as what they thought, right?

But now, we have irony, right?

What that means is someone can go out

and what they say, that might be
the opposite of what they think.

But normally, at least 50% of the
audience don't realise that.

LAUGHTER

And the great thing about irony
for stand-ups,

from a commercial point of view,

is it means you can work
two audiences simultaneously.

LAUGHTER

Guardian readers and Sun readers.

LAUGHTER

Course, in the end, the guilt drives
the ironic comedian mad with shame...

..and they have to present BBC Four
documentaries as a form of penance.

LAUGHTER

Or else they go to America
and they do their irony over there,

where, ironically, the people don't
have a sense of irony.

LAUGHTER

Anyway, I'm going to finish
on a song, as threatened.

And this is how you do comedy songs.

What you have to do
is choose a subject

and then do it like an impression
of someone. So, er...

To help me on this, will you please
welcome, from Brighton, on the banjo,

Nick Pynn.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And, er...

All right?

Now...

I got to thinking, er,
what would it be like if, er...

Bob Dylan from the '60s took a look
at stand-up comedy in Britain today.

Well, I think it would be
a little bit like this.

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♪ There's a bus

♪ That never comes

♪ Except in threes

♪ There's a train that never runs

♪ Because of leaves... ♪

LAUGHTER

♪ And there's a woman that
never comes

♪ Perhaps she's dead

♪ And there's a toaster

♪ And it always burns the bread... ♪

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

♪ Well, there's a town
in the north-east of England

♪ Where the weather's always freezing

♪ And the girls parade around
in inappropriate clothing

♪ And there's a drawer
of random objects

♪ In the shed

♪ And there's a toaster

♪ And it always burns the bread

♪ I don't believe you
You're a liar... ♪

LAUGHTER

♪ You're a liar

♪ And your pants are lit on fire... ♪

LAUGHTER

♪ You're a la-la-la-la la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la la-la-la-la liar

♪ And your name

♪ Is Michael f... ♪

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

♪ Well, there's a Dalek

♪ And it just can't get up stairs

♪ And this old bald man combing over
his last three remaining hairs

♪ And there's a student

♪ Olympics athlete
Lying stoned in bed... ♪

You know what, mate? It's obviously
the last fucking thing!

That'll be right in the front
of that shot.

You horrible man.

LAUGHTER

GROANING AND BOOING

I mean, how much longer
could it go on at that speed?

LAUGHTER

There's 30 seconds in it!

I'm not having the public
in to shows again.

LAUGHTER AND SCATTERED APPLAUSE

If only there was some way
of eliminating you from the equation.

LAUGHTER

If it was just me
and broadsheet journalists...

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

..in a self-congratulatory loop.

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