It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

A moped and an overweight, bald-headed, thuggish looking man in a cast-off suit which looks as though it has shrunk in the wash. Put those two together and what have you got? 'Alexei Sayle's Stuff'. The outspoken comic from Liverpool would each week kick off a show whilst giving a rant on a varied selection of subjects, whether it be on The Royal Family, politics or religion. We would then move onto surreal sketches penned not only by Sayle himself but also by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, who had earlier written 'End Of Part One' and 'Whoops Apocalypse'.'Stuff' was an entertaining vehicle for Sayle. Though not the world's biggest fan of all of Mr. Sayle's work, I liked the show for its fast moving, zany humour which was brought to life by a talented cast.In the first series, Sayle's regular supporting cast included Mark Williams, Tony Millan ( Tucker from 'Citizen Smith' ), Angus Deayton, sexy Harriet Thorpe, sexier Morwenna Banks and, in my opinion the sexiest of them all, Felicity Montagu. Among the funniest sketches were Alexei as God jumping frantically around the street, leading a female passer-by to remark ''I see God is moving in mysterious ways!'', a group of waitresses being interviewed on a current affairs show and replying to questions about affairs as though they are taking orders, a playwright holding a self-defence class teaching students how to defend themselves against thugs by using witty ripostes, innuendo, waggish comebacks and so on.In the second series, Williams, Banks, Thorpe and Montagu departed and were replaced by Owen Bremnan and the gorgeous Jan Ravens, however it wasn't the same and as a result the last two series lacked the same vulgar verve as the first series.After 'Stuff', Alexei's next comedy show was 'The All New Alexei Sayle Show', which was followed by 'Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round'. No classic, but good fun, at least at first anyway.

Alexi Sayle's style is extremely political, and if you listen to his audio-book of early comedy club recordings, you'll hear the prototypes for many of the gags which appear in Stuff. Marshall & Renwick have a distinctly different style - they came from the world of radio comedy - "The Burkis Way to Dynamic Living" was one of theirs (that mutated into a short-lived TV version on ITV with the same cast, but it was too surreal to last on the low-brow ITV). They also wrote the extremely funny "Whoops, Apocalypse!" (the TV version), and the famous "One Foot In the Grave". They also spoofed Lord of the Rings in the year that the epic BBC Radio 4 production aired, with "Hordes of the Things", a wickedly observed lampoon with first rate cast and writing. This is a very strong pedigree.If you want to "spot" which is Marshall and Renwick, and which is Sayle, it isn't hard to do. The more Pythonesque it gets, the less likely it is to be Sayle, and the more political it is, the more likely it is him.If you want some great examples of sketches which other reviewers haven't mentioned, I'd put the extended sketch/concept episode "Seal of the Soothsayer" as one of my favourites. The Mickey Mouse/Steamboat Fatty spoof is also priceless. One of my personal favourites is the "Who's a Jew?" sketch, where a businessman discovers that not only is HE Jewish, but so is Thomas the Tank Engine (original name: Thomasovitch Tankenstein)! The School Outfitter sketch rings true to anybody buying school uniform, even today. There are so many treasures in this series that it is a crime to be selective. I am glad that the BBC have finally allowed/negotiated rights/whatever to get this out on DVD in the UK - the whole series as opposed to the original compilation shown on the title page for this entry.The "All New Alexi Sayle Show" appeared after a few years off, and Alexi had mellowed - no more ranting, but it just felt that he had lost his sharp comic edge. Most of the material revolved around perhaps 6 characters whom you would see in every episode in the same predictable order (Harry Enfield fell into the same trap, as does "Little Britain" today), and if the joke wasn't really funny once, it certainly wasn't funny twice, or six times, and when the series ended, I recycled the VHS recordings I'd made from the TV immediately rather than saving them. Stick to "Stuff", and you're in safer, if stranger territory, and it's much funnier there.

This has to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. My local PBS station aired it late on Friday nights over ten years ago and I was hooked. I can't remember much about it now, except for a few of the songs, such as the one in the title (to the tune of Mickey Mouse) but I know it was hilarious! I would love to see this again!

Stuff is the best comedy series, and it is amazing how a comedian can come up with such original stuff for so long. Unlike other comedians he does not constantly recycle jokes through various characters. Very funny stuff.