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Until you're left with a Turin shroud, gossamer-thin
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Stewart Lee: Content Provider

Until you're left with aTurin shroud, gossamer-thin, tracing-paper imprint of...

Until you're left with a
Turin shroud, gossamer-thin, tracing-paper imprint of this
supposedly profound moment in your life that no longer
has any value, because you've fucked all the
meaning out of it again!

Full Transcript

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Until you're left with a Turin shroud, gossamer-thin,
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tracing-paper imprint of this supposedly profound moment
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in your life that no longer has any value,
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because you've fucked all the meaning out of it again!
Duration
13 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
01:40:44
Uploaded
Jun 26, 2025
Genres
comedy
Production
BBC Comedy,Awkward Films

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Movie Summary

Stewart Lee's 2017/18 touring stand-up show, recorded live at the Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea, in April 2018.
You're probably like me, Southend, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:12
You're probably like me, Southend,
In the 1970s, I tape-recorded all these old stories - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:05
In the 1970s, I tape-recorded all these old stories
But in the '80s, when my brother-in-law moved in, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:06
But in the '80s, when my brother-in-law moved in,
Well done. The second and final Deacon Blue joke - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:10
Well done. The second and final Deacon Blue joke
I do it, and then there's about 30 seconds more - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:05
I do it, and then there's about 30 seconds more
So when you hear the second Deacon Blue joke, don't go, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:08
So when you hear the second Deacon Blue joke, don't go,
So I was talking there about the S&M and the fetish scene, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:13
So I was talking there about the S&M and the fetish scen...
And our grandparents and our great-grandparents - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:05
And our grandparents and our great-grandparents
My grandad was still around at the sort of start of the internet age, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:07
My grandad was still around at the sort of start of the inte...
And he did say to me once, he said that in the '30s, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:08
And he did say to me once, he said that in the '30s,
Seriously, I'm not doing a joke now, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:07
Seriously, I'm not doing a joke now,
I mean, he said to me, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:18
I mean, he said to me,
And all they had then, in the '30s, in rural Worcestershire, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:08
And all they had then, in the '30s, in rural Worcesters...
And this was kept, wasn't it, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:10
And this was kept, wasn't it,
Yeah, on the marble slab. It's funny to you, because you think, - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:09
Yeah, on the marble slab. It's funny to you, because yo...
And, you know, maybe it was Christmas, and Grandad was in - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:09
And, you know, maybe it was Christmas, and Grandad was in
That's what he'd call his wife, because he was in love with her. - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:05
That's what he'd call his wife, because he was in ...
They would get undressed there in the freezing-black darkness - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:11
They would get undressed there in the freezing-black darknes...
And the hessian would gouge horrible wounds into their faces. - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:04
And the hessian would gouge horrible wounds into their faces...
And they'd be shivering and crying in the black dark, and bleeding. - Stewart Lee: Content Provider 00:05
And they'd be shivering and crying in the black dark, a...