Frank Tully
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Stewart Lee talks comedy
Stewart Lee talks comedy, success and why stand-up is the only thing he ever wants to do.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 10th March 2016TV preview: Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, episode 4.2
Warning. This episode contains skipping. Sure enough, Lee suckered his TV viewers in last week with a relatively benign look at the nature of modern comedy and a few cheeky swipes at his fellow entertainers. This week he goes for the jugular, addressing the more tricky question of the rise of Islamophobia and the acceptability of jokes about religion. The skipping, inevitably, comes in a section about a different rise - the rise of observational comedy.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th March 2016Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle roars back
Billed as addressing wealth, it was more specific than that: it was about Lee's wealth, or lack of it.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 4th March 2016Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle review
Accused of intellectual snobbery, Stewart Lee hits back, pointing out that it's a valid performance device, under the theatrical technique of Brechtian alienation. Thus explaining himself and reinforcing the criticism in one kamikaze blow.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd March 2016Stewart Lee interviewed
Stewart Lee is back with another series of Comedy Vehicle. He tells Simon Price his thoughts on Lenny Bruce, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, swimming through piss, Brexit and the pitfalls of being constantly misunderstood.
Simon Price, The Quietus, 3rd March 2016Sublime stand-up from Stewart Lee
The finest half hour of comedy ever written and performed, in my opinion, was one particular episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.
Tara Pardo, The Bristol Post, 29th February 2016Will Self meets Stewart Lee
As his TV series returns to our screens, comedian Stewart Lee talks to Will Self about his prickly stage persona, how social media is changing comedy and why you won't see him on Mock the Week.
Will Self, The Guardian, 26th February 2016Grimsby: gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste (Link expired)
Comedy genius Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno, Ali G Indahouse) may just have created a whole new genre with his latest film Grimsby, a gross-out action comedy that gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste humour, achieving almost sublimely surreal results in the process.
Matthew Turner, WOW247, 25th February 2016John Cleese rules out Fawlty Towers musical
John Cleese, who played bumbling British hotel manager Basil Fawlty in the hit 1970s TV series, says a musical version of Fawlty Towers would never work.
ABC News (Australia), 18th February 2016TV show Glee vows to fight comedy club trademark ruling
It is not over yet, says popular US TV show Glee's producers 20th Century Fox after it lost its appeal to British comedy chain The Glee Club, over a trademark dispute on the use of the name in the UK. The film studio says the case is still ongoing and could be referred to the European court.
Laura Bates, International Business Times UK, 13th February 2016