Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian known for deadpan, repetitive and deliberately meta routines that divide audiences. On television he is best known for Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle on BBC Two, where his pauses, glances to camera and superior delivery became part of the act. Clips and stills of his smug expression later circulated online as a reaction to people sounding pleased with themselves. The short clip survives because that look sums up a very British kind of smugness, recognisable even without the full routine around it.