Stewart Francis - For One Night Only

This clip features the comedian Stewart Francis from the show For One Night Only.

After the creative success of Saturday Live Again, broadcast in December 2007, ITV decided to commit to more comedy and music on ITV1 for 2008. The result was a co-production with ITV Productions called For One Night Only, a huge-scale variety music and comedy spectacular. Each week the show had a different pair of co-hosts - Vernon Kay and Joan Rivers anyone? - and just to make things more exciting, the series went out live (although the third one had a scheduling tussle with X Factor and had to transmit a little later). The show featured huge mainstream pop stars - Pink, Rihanna, Will Young, Pussycat Dolls, Tom Jones, Michael Bublé- all bumping shoulders in the narrow corridors at Fountain Studios with stand-ups like Milton Jones, Will Smith, Stephen K Amos and Mark Watson and a bunch of Chinese acrobats or a German wheel dancer or whichever crazy variety act had been booked that week....

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[kjamison]

If you want a joke with an innuendo, Stewart Francis will give you one.

[GregoryPLoomis]

The 7 thumbs down 👎 are people who remember swimming back to shore thinking….

[WildPhotoShooter]

He's the best one liner in the world today.

[cuteguy]

Stewart Francis is a great comedian. :-)

[ChadeGB]

I like that some of these gags he was doing back in the 90s, but he keeps them in and then builds on them, adding new bits to them and refining them over the years, so when you think you've heard it before, he comes out with something unexpected and new, but still familiar.

[ARTPLAYSGAMES]

That book store rejection joke was hilarious 😆😂

[benhurley]

Absolute genius his humour is suited for the British audience 👍🏻

[chaz]

Really appreciate one liners and a play on words, many thanks Stewart.

[poolstar]

Francis and Vine king of the one liners. Quality comedy best since Monkhouse and Cooper.

[Aaron-ogwx]

He's awesome and his voice reminds me of Phil Hartman

[ianeaglenil]

Such a great act, wrapping around and back.

[fergussaint-john]

90 seconds in and he has the audience in his hands! 👏

[dustindawind]

One of the greatest one liners comedian!
Rodney Dangerfield, Steve Wright, Mitch Herbert RIP, him, Anthony Jeselnik, Milton Jones

[tomsmyth]

Modern day Steve Wright with slightly different

[dennisnieradka]

Merry Christmas sir, and a Happy New Year's. Your cool.

[JMBoivin]

Sept 2020? These one liners have been going around for AGES

[DCGdesign]

How do you remember all of them, and remember that you already said it so you don’t actually repeat yourself?! I actually saw Gary Delaney (whom I greatly respect as well) and he did repeat himself once in the same set and the audience just laughed for him again and it was delightful.

[oppothumbs]

Some nice one-liners and deadpan as Steven Wright but in Stewart's case one doesn't have to work so hard to get the jokes (followed by a visual joke).

[neil]

To wrote one liners is a gift i wish i could have, any books on the craft?

[seanmcquilkin]

I'm so lazy I got a award for it ..I got someone else to pick it up for me 😊