Right so it was one of my favourite programs that was shown at a Sunday lunchtime. I love it, and have just bought it off ebay (finally) along with Fist of Fun.

It is one of those tradgies (sp) it was never realised on DVD, and has some of the most quotable lines ever.

So please add why you love it hate it, favourite Lee and Herring quotes and other gubbins. It'll keep me happy.

"Consider the lily"
"Cress cress-lovely cress"

Curse you God for making me this way.

Curse you nan for making me wear this jumper this way!

I didn't think it through.

And I really didn't.

*oh it hurts-but I like it!*-Nostradamus

Tmwrnj was the best way to work off a Sunday hangover ever. Who can forget the Curious Orange, The Actor Kevin Eldon and the Small-Faced Boy?

And Leo de Caprio will always be sprout faced.

"Trevor and Nathalie!"
"Or Nathalie and Trevor!"

I know someone who went to a recording. Rich hit on her.

me=jealous

Have you seen the tmwrnj transcripts, here and here?

ah oui-one of my favouritest places, and a bit easier to get to following this

Oh Nostradamus... I loved her.
Him.

I think I mustve fancied them both at some point... Despite Stew coming from Solihull he has one helluva sexy accent. When did a Brummie accent become desireable? I once accquired one from being in close proximity to someone from Sutton Coldfield but it's gone now.

Edit: My spelling was atrocious-it's so late and yet I am still up and vaguely compus mentus. Meh.

'I love all kinds of mice, Stew. - grey mice.... white mice... brown mice...
... Of course they're all brown mice by the time I've finished with them!'

- I put them in my mouse hole.

...(or something ) Loved those shows.

"Did it have a kite mark?"
"They've all got kite marks by the time I've finished with 'em..."

'I love all kinds of whale, ... blue whales...'

'I suppose they are all sperm whales when you're finished with them aren't they?'

'No... actually i was going to say they were all hump-backed whales'

"The ugly Corr, Stew-call her by her name."

& jim 'The man-corr'

'You make him sound like some Ray Harryhausen monster'

"And at only sixty nine pence a punnett-cress isn't a stress on my pocket."

Mmmmmm... Natalie...

Me too, dagnamit.

Check out Richard Herring's site here
I've been reading all the Warming Up bits, and have been sucked into consecutive number plate spotting (cnps).

Well it's summat to do, anyway.

Ah, I always remembered TMWRNJ as the poor relation of Fist of Fun but the fact that my jaw muscles are aching from trying desperately not to piss myself laughing at these quotes suggests my memory's playing tricks on me.

I loved the Ironic Review - surely a predecessor for Nathan Barley?

My friend got me Stewart Lee's autograph for my birthday. It says: "Amy, You fool. You missed it [ie, his tour] and I have only two hours to live. Kings of Wessex 4 EVA". I heart him still.

I'm reading Stewart Lee's book right now. It's ace.
I really want Richard's book Talking Cock too.

I thought that about Ironic Review too, Stella.

Am I the only person who doesn't like Stewart Lee?

What's not to like? He's hilarious, witty, intelligent, satirical, tremendously attractive in his own way and the author of a highly controversial diehard-Christian-baiting Opera.

Don't tell me we're goign to have a Stew appreciation society now as well....

I always fancied the Cheddary one though.

Fancied Stew in the 90s, but after regularly reading Rich's website, one cannot resist, really.

I was watching Fist of fun (I think) the other night and rediscovered one of my favourite sketches; Stewart is seeing a little white fluffy kitten in secret, but the little girl across the road wants it back.


That selfish hussy.

I should probably have called the thread Lee and Herring or something but I found it funny that people either wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about or would say tmwrnj as a word in their head. Repetition makes it funnier.

"The ugly Spice Girl, Melanie CHISholm."

"The ugly jumping Spice Girl, Melanie Chisholm"

He is a shameless hussy though... all those women!

Chisholm YES Chisholm. Haha.

Should I take that as sarcasm?

Are you one of them diehard christians he baited, obuggrit?

I must be, because there's only 2 types of people in the world. I didn't find it offensive, just tedious and childish.

Edit: I quoted the wrong bloody person there lol

Is that why you don't like him then? Have you seen any of his work that isn't fat-jesus-in-a-nappy-based?

I saw This Morning with Richard not Judy and vaguely remember Fist of Fun.

I really don't know why I don't like him. From what I remember his work doesn't seem that much different from Avid Merrion - lazy cock jokes and piss takes out of people, but I think Avid's funny - probably because of the clueless, pervert persona. Stewart just comes across as a smary student to me. Meh.

Oh, fair enough then.
I suppose there must be people though who think of him, if at all, as just the bloke who did the Jerry Springer Opera. How unfortunate.

Yeah, the whole Jerry nonsense is going to stick to him for a while. I have nothing against Christians in general, but those arseholes who protest against crap like Jerry Springer are sanctimonious arses :/ I'm surprised they haven't revolted against the Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama and all that.
That whole hospital blackmail thing makes me sick. If they don't want to look like hypocrites they should stop anyone from donating money - I mean, we've all sinned haven't we. This should be on that other thread really, sorry.

Anyway. Has anyone seen either of them do stand-up?

By 'either of them' do you mean Lee and Herring or Lee and the fat bloke who played a nappy-wearing Jesus?

I've seen Lee & Herring live (they played my school hall) and I saw Stewart do some solo stuff in 1998 or so. I wasn't much impressed with the solo show, though to be fair it was a Edinburgh warm-up and most of the material was completely new and unrehearsed. He had a distinctly uncomfortable routine about his dead grandad that was too much pain and not enough comedy. I think his smug sarcasm needs Richard's childish humour to really shine.

Obuggrit, I see what you mean about Stewart being smarmy. He is. But he's also very clever in a way that Leigh Francis really isn't.

Yeah, I really don't see the Avid Merrion comparison at all!



Whaaat??

I would love to see either of them live, they're both touring now aren't they? (separately that is)

I always preferred Rich. I like his silly childishness.

OK OK fair point, but, all I remember was TMWRAJ and FoF were sex jokes and piss takes, anything offensive and crude really. I suppose Stewart Lee is more like Jimmy -channel4ownsmysoul- Carr, but slightly less smarmy and erm, witty.

Now I'm offended.

lol, ok that probably was a bad comparison, probably, but not really.

heheh! I think you might need to rewatch the shows a bit. I don't think all that much of their output was made up of crude sex jokes.
They had a lot of interesting things to say about religion and politics, and as I pointed out earlier, fluffy little kitties.

There is always a place for crude sex jokes anyway.

Especially if you mix them with the kitties.

Crude sex with kitties?