What is Stewart Lee's favourite cheese?
That's fetta in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite soft spread?
That's butter in a way.
Christ..
What's Stewart Lee's favourite risque 40's Hollywood star?
That's Gretta in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite brand of Samuel Smiths?
That's bitter in a way.
What does Stewart Lee like on his fish and sausages but not on his chicken and beef 'n' onion pies?
That's batter in a way.
I'm sure there's a 'better on the radio' gag here somewhere but it's beyond my limited comedic talent I'm afraid...
Ooo, this place is so different without Jon around.
I'm not bitter in a way.
I miss Jon, he was a nice man. He never questioned anything.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite breed of dog?
That's red setter in a way
What's Stewart Lee's favourite camp insult?
That's 'get her' in a way.
>I'm sure there's a 'better on the radio' gag here somewhere but it's beyond my limited comedic talent I'm afraid...
Ummm...What's Stewart Lee's favourite forum catchphrase?
What is Stewart Lee's favourite approach to fiscal avoidance?
That's barter in a way.
What's Stuart Lee's favourite TV series?
That's Get Carter in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite type of Volkswagen car?
That's Jetta in a way.
Stewart Lee's views about the email revolution:
"That's letters in a way"
What's Stewart Lee's favourite kind of HTML tag?
"That's meta in a way"
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Beatles song?
That's 'Fixing a Hole' in a way. Oh bugger.
>What's Stuart Lee's favourite TV series?
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>That's Get Carter in a way.
TV series? IT'S A FILM
>>What's Stuart Lee's favourite TV series?
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>>That's Get Carter in a way.
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>TV series? IT'S A FILM
Oh bugger. Another fucking mistake I've got to admit to.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite name of a character of a hilarious Jewish ghost in a hopelessly unfunny 1992 BBC sitcom about a family who live with a hilarious Jewish ghost and have adventures with the hilarious Jewish ghost because it's a hilarious ghost, do you see, and it's Jewish too oh my aching sides etc etc etc?
That's Yetta in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite song off of Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage?
That's A Little Green Rosetta in a way.
What's S. Lee's favouriute ower of money?
That's debtor, in a way.
Of all the women Marlene Dietrich shagged (according to last week's Sunday Telegraph), who is Stewart Lee's favourite?
That's Greta in a way.
Ah, go on then...
What's Stewart Lee's favourite kind of gun?
That's beretta (sp?) in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite cheapo supermarket?
That's Netto in a way.
What's Stuart Lee's favourite way of saying 'and so on, and so on'?
That's etcetera in a way.
Who's Stewart Lee's favourite fictional detective?
That's Hetty (Wainthrop) in a way.
How does Stewart Lee know he's a hit with the ladies?
They're wetter in a way.
(I do apologise.)
No you don't.
Which is Stewart Lee's favourite hell-raising Greek deity?
That's Satyr in a way.
(This is pathetic. I don't even know where the original quote is from.)
Who are Stewart Lee's favourite blues and jazz improv artists, in that order?
That's Etta, Inoue.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite chat up line?
That's "let her" in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite part of a car?
That's carburettor in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite company?
That's SETA in a way.
Do any of you (apart from Bent, and probably Mike & Joe) even know what you're on about?
>Do any of you (apart from Bent, and probably Mike & Joe) even know what you're on about?
Er, no. But I wanted to join in and be part of the gang, like.
Because, you know, that's better in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Basque separatist movement?
That's ETA in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite way of describing what he did to a piece of cake last week in a posh voice?
I et it in a way.
What's Stuart Lee's chosen contraception?
French Letter in a way.
Whats Stewart Lee's favourite kind of Italian bread?
That's panchetta in a way.
Whats Stewart Lee's favourite kind of Italian bread?
That's panchetta in a way.
ah shit.
>ah shit.
The panchetta one was funny but I didn't understand the shit one at all. :-)
>The panchetta one was funny but I didn't understand the shit one at all. :-)
My first post this side of michelmas and I manage to make a technical hash of it.
I am incompetent etc....
If Stewart Lee added an extra t between the t and the a to the middle name of the Welsh actress who recently married Michael Douglas how would it then be spelt?
That's Zetta in a way.
Who is Stewart Lee's favourite member of ABBA?
That's Agnetha in a way.
What, in a Mark E Smith voice, is Stewart Lee's favourite spin-of project from The Fall?
That's the Adult Net-ah in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite concise and verbose assessment of international copyright laws?
Them's the facts in a way bucky.
Hang on, that doesn't work...
I don't think you mean verbose, anyway.
Although if you include the several hundred posts calling people cunts that preceded it...
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Shakesperian character or sitcom featuring Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall?
That's Bottom in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Italian snack?
That's bruschetta in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite person at Hogwarts?
That's Harry Potter in a way.
(And Peeves)
What's Stewart Lee's favourite ice cream dessert?
That's Walls Vienetta in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite first word in a French song?
That's allouetta in a way.
(Wrong spelling probably, but...)
What's Stewart Lee's favourite mode of transport?
That's a lambretta in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite way of saying "goodbye"?
That's "ta ta" in a way.
If Stewart Lee were asked what a word is that means "hate campaign" he'd say...
That's vendetta is a way.
Who's Stewart Lee's favourite FIFA executive?
That's Sepp Blatter in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite type of calendar entry / song by the Pet Shop Boys?
That's Red Letter... Day.
(I'm just limping onto the bandwagon, I have no idea what started all this off, I am profoundly restless.)
What is Stewart Lee's favourite Wire tune?
That's 'Pieta' in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Prince song?
That's 'Little Red Corvette' (uh) in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite type of 'down-and-out'?
That's beggar in away
>(I'm just limping onto the bandwagon, I have no idea what started all this off, I am profoundly restless.)
Let's not worry about the specific origins of this running joke. Who cares?! Let's just sit back and enjoy the rich stream of medium-quality word-play that has resulted!
I thought we were going for a world record for something?
>I thought we were going for a world record for something?
Well I just asked Norris and he says the record for the world's longest rather weak running joke is held by Mr Paul Whitehouse of England, who said "scgribblijiblurflahrcompletely covered in pepperdirofiprefdjkhjvery very drunk" every week for five years. I can't see us matching that.
>Well I just asked Norris and he says the record for the world's longest rather weak running joke is held by Mr Paul Whitehouse of England, who said "scgribblijiblurflahrcompletely covered in pepperdirofiprefdjkhjvery very drunk" every week for five years.
That character looked and sounded just like a lecturer from me uni days, so surely he actually gets the prize?
What is Stewart Lee's favourite christian name for a European man of theatre?
That's Bertolt in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Dorset folk band?
That's The Yeties in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Greek TV station?
That's MEGA in a way
Who is Stewart lee's favourite Mob leader in a criminally underrated American TV prison drama series?
That's Schibetta in a way...
Who's Stewart lee's favourite moody American band, noted for their melancholy use of strings and their appearance on the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' soundtrack?
That's Darling Violetta in a way...
What is Stewart Lee's favourite word for chalk in a now dead language?
That's kreta in a way...
What is Stewart Lee's favourite phrase meaning 'ready to..'?
That's pret à in a way...
What is Stewart Lee's favourite local newspaper?
That's The Gazette in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite method of restraint?
That's tether in a way.
What is the title of the famous Box Tops song, which Stewart Lee probably likes as well, being as it is quite good after a certain fashion?
That's "The Letter" in a way.
This is only my second contribution to the etter avalanche, and both of them have been 'letter'. I wonder if anyone will notice.
What is one of the fairy tales Stewart Lee probably at some point in his life has heard of, if not read?
That's Hansel and Gretel in a way.
If Stewart Lee were asked, say, by a psychiatrist, to relate the first thing that pops into his mind when he recalls the tale of Little Miss Muffet, but not the spider, we're not interested in the spider, what might be his response?
She et 'er curds and whey. (aaaaah)
What is Stewart Lee's favourite Tura twelve-inch?
That's 'Letter' in a way.
Good, no-one noticed. What are Stewart Lee's favourite last words, at least in Latin?
That's "et tu, Brute?".
Stewart Lee suffers from a condition where the seasonal changes in daylight hours affect his mood and general health, and the only way he can find any solace at this time is listening to Radiohead's contribution to the 'Help' album, which he finds expresses his temperament perfectly.
Which is S.A.D....
But also 'Lucky' in a way.
If you asked Stewart Lee to sing you a brief snatch of Wings, using the gift of throat for both lyrics and instrumentation as he sees fit, what form might that representative sample take?
That's "Jet! Uh! Oo-o oo o-oo oo" in a way.
Hat. What is Stewart Lee's favourite type of?
That's Stetson in a way.
What was the infant Stewart Lee's favourite method of registering dissatisfaction, using only an adjective and a sort of fake unconvincing crying noise?
That's "Upset, eeeurgh" in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite person who commissioned a billboard advert featuring two snogging lesbians?
Thata's Henrietta in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite slack way of proposing a wager?
That's "Bet ya..." in a way.
What is the title of Stewart Lee's favourite Elvis Presley song, later performed by Nick Cave, said in a rubbish, lazy Eastenders-type accent to render the '-o' to a sort of quick '-a' sound?
That's "In The Ghettah" in a way.
When required, say in a play of some kind, to refer to one who has betrayed his trust, and deliver his lines in a sort of gruff Scottish accent, what word would Stewart Lee be likely to pronounce?
That's "trettor" in a way. Uh, traitor
In similar old mockney slag frame of voice, what is the name of Stewart Lee's favoured almond-flavoured liquor?
That's Amarettah in a way.
Who is Stewart Lee's favourite absurdist playwright?
That's Beckett in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite way of saying "Brasseye" whilst affecting numerous alarming speech impediments, impersonating a cockroach and having some kind of dangerous fit?
That's "br-eh-kk-kh!uh i-a!-ay."
What is Stewart Lee's favourite childish way of saying the word "potato"?
That's buh-tay-tah in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite PiL LP?
That's Metal Box in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite cartoon tiger-related breakfast cereal advertising slogan with the words swapped around for no good reason?
That's "Grrreat! They're" in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite line from "Lyrical Gangster" or whatever it was called?
That's "They call me Hot Stepper (Turn it up)" in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite member of Madness?
That's Bedders in a way.
Who is Stewart Lee's favourite war hero?
That's Bader in a way.
What does Stewart Lee think of "Dead Ringers"?
'That's satire...in a way.'
What is Stuart Lee's favourite ice cream?
That's Cornetto in a way.
Congratulations everyone. You've killed comedy.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite part of the eye?
That's retina in away.
... favourite ballet move?
That's "jeter" in a way.
....manufacturer of small to medium industrial engines and refridgeration equipment?
That's Petter in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite avant-garde French sci-fi movie short that inspired a Terry Gilliam film?
That's La Jetee in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite thing to shout in a sort of ridiculous clipped Sergeant-Major voice?
That's "Abaaat-Tun!" in a way
What is Stewart Lee most likely to be called by the person sleeping on the lower half of their bunk-bed(s?)?
That's bed-wetter in a way.
Who is Stewart Lee's favourite sci-fi film hero?
That's Deckard in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite currently-in-syndication Gene Rodenberry series?
That's Andromeda in a way.
What is Stewart Lee's favourite recording medium, said in a Bob Harris type voice?
That's rekkuds in a way.
What's Stewert Lee's favourite misspelled Nirvan Song?
That's 'Something in a way'
What's Stewart Lee's favourite surname of a member of Pearl Jam?
That's Vedder in a way (narrowly beating his 'other' catchphrase "No, _not_ Gossard!")
What's Stewart Lee's favourite Toxteth-dwelling synthpop all-girl indie band?
That's Vada in a way.
What's S. Lee's favourite Sony Widescreen TV?
That's Vega in a way.
... favourite Star Wars character?
Darth Vader in a way
>That's Vedder in a way (narrowly beating his 'other' catchphrase "No, _not_ Gossard!")
Or even "No, not Aaaaaaaaaament"
What's Stewart Lee's favourite condition which causes its sufferers to swear at everybody?
What's Stewart Lee's favourite cheese producing town in New South Wales?
That's Bega in a way...
What's Stuart Lee's favourite kind of reduced stage musical?
That's an Operetta in a way.
What's Stuart Lee's(or even Stewart Lee's) favourite seaside holiday resort?
That's Bootle in a way.
Who is Stewart Lee's favourite modern literary critic?
That's Barthe in a way.
Who is Stewart Lee's favourite character from the US sitcom "The Nanny"?
That's Grandma Yetta in a way.
You know, it's ironic that this thread is a perfect illustration of safety-in-numbers sneery opinion.
:-)
>You know, it's ironic that this thread is a perfect illustration of safety-in-numbers sneery opinion.
>
>:-)
Is it? I thought it was just a bit of fun.
What was Stewart Lee's opinion on the 11ocs?
That's shitter in a way.
Who's Stewart Lee's favourite US comic book artist of the fifties?
"That's Frank Franzetta in a way."
What's a dead giveaway that Stewart Lee's a bit middle class?
That's the Rioja in a way.
What's Stuart Lee's favourite Belgian restaurant in the west end of London?
That's Belgos in a way.
What's Stuart Lee's favourite American Supreme Court Justice?
that's Stephen G. Breyer in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite island off Singapore?
That's Sentosa in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite stop on the Hammersmith & City line?
That's Shepherd's Bush in a way.
(Call the assonance police...)
New variant:
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite expanses of land?
Them's the tracts, bucky.
Which is Stewart Lee's favourite album by The Police?
That's 'Zenyatta Mondatta' in a way.
Who is Stewart Lee's father?
His begetter, in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's slogan for the new “Murphy's” campaign?
That's not bitter in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's slogan for the new “Murphy's” campaign?
That's not bitter in a way.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of pointing out some luxury boats, but mispronouncing the word so that you get an 'ack' sound instead of an 'ock'?
Them's the yachts, bucky.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite kind of backline amplification?
Them's the stacks, bucky.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of acknowledging, say to a doctor, the precise location of some kind of painful injury, and then swearing in a curiously placid sort of manner?
Them's the cracks, fucky.
... Stewart Lee's favourite Tangerine Dream album?
That's Phaedra in a way.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of pointing out several felines in a stereotypically gay fashion?
Them's the cats, Ducky.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of telling his friend, who drives a heavy goods vehicle, what type of clothing accessories he is looking at?
Them's the hats, truckie.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite type of fashion dictator?
That's trendsetter in a way...
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite breakfast cereal?
Them's The Smacks, Bucky
Who's Stewart Lee's favourite actor in This Is Spinal Tap?
That's Tony Hendra in a way.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite division of segments of a stage play?
Them's the acts, Bucky.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite post-10cc Graham Gouldman musical project?
Them's The Wax, Bucky.
>What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of pointing out some luxury boats, but mispronouncing the word so that you get an 'ack' sound instead of an 'ock'?
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>Them's the yachts, bucky.
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It's spelt yach-t, but pronounced 'throatwobbler mangrove'
[sound of TJ being swamped by eight million legal missives relating to the unauthorised use of a Chapman line]
>[sound of TJ being swamped by eight million legal missives relating to the unauthorised use of a Chapman line]
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>
"Shhhhhwwwuuuhllfffffllllup", I think you'll find. But louder.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of telling the star of "Child's Play" that there will be no more sequels due to a few reactionary, recently-passed censorship laws?
Them's the Acts, Chucky
What did Jim Yoakum say when he spotted a herd of hairy beasts, while accompanied by character from a John Wyndham novel?
Them's the Yaks, Chocky.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite retort to the copyright-busting espousing outpourings of an underrated user of this forum?
Them's the facts, Stocky.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite slightly depressing erotic photographer?
That's Elmer Batters in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's new catchphrase in his new advertisement?
I can't believe that's not butter in a way! Can you?
What words does Stewert Lee never ever ever want to here again, or, presumably, he'll strangle the person who said them?
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite strange way of pointing out some fighting journalists?
Them's the hacks, rucky.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of explaining the mechanics of automatic salary deductions to the moderator of Cook'd and Bomb'd's message board?
Them's the tax, Boki.
>What's Jim Yoakum's favourite retort to the copyright-busting espousing outpourings of an underrated user of this forum?
>
>Them's the facts, Stocky.
Why thankyou TJ, first time I've been called underrated without actually realising I was rated at all. Oh yeah:
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of explaining the concept of trouser-wear to his favourite chicken?
Them's the slacks, clucky
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of reminding a once-popular television bear puppet about his appearance in the poll of the one hundred greatest TV moments from hell?
Them's the stats, Nookie.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of reminding senile Nick Cave of the full title of the Birthday Party song "Release The..", and referring to him by a bizarre and disturbing nickname?
Them's the bats, Nucky.
Which should really have been...
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of reminding senile Nick Cave of the missing two words of the Birthday Party song title "Release..", and referring to him by a bizarre and disturbing nickname?
Them's "the Bats", Nucky.
Not that it makes a lot of difference.
What's Jim Yoakum's favourite way of identifying the fabled doggerel couple, the husband of which would eat no fat, his wife would eat no lean?
Them's the Sprats, bucky.
Were he ever to lose his job as executor of Graham Chapman's estate and be forced to take up more humble employment, how would Jim Yoakum explain to his new clientele that his new business, which cleans the cabs of long-distance haulage vehicles, uses the old-skool spit-'n'-polish method?
Phlegm's the wax, truckie.
Who is Stewart Lee's favourite girl that I went to school with?
That's Petra in a way
What is Stewart Lee's favourite song on Morrissey's 'Maladjusted' album?
That's 'Alma Maters' in a way.
What's Stewart Lee's favourite way of dissuading people from thinking you've murdered a black teenager on a cynically-staged PR TV interview?
That's just banter, in a way.