Frank Tully
- Actor
Press clippings Page 55
Opinion: Has Stewart Lee gone too meta this time?
The trouble with Lee is that these days his comedy is so "meta" it is hard to know on what level to take his material.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th November 2013Why I walked out of a Stewart Lee gig
Stewart Lee's contempt for his audience is becoming a grimly unedifying spectacle.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 9th November 2013Comedy review: Stewart Lee
The mix of pathos and playfulness is heightened in a closing sequence where Stewart Lee puffs himself up only to puncture his ego and portrays himself as a burnt out performer, berated by his family who apply their own 'dropped star' rating to him.
Julian Hall, The Independent, 8th November 2013'Golden age' of comedy is over says Cleese
Comic John Cleese says he fears after 50 years in the industry that the 'golden age' of comedy is over and being funny is the hardest thing in the world.
Claire Carter, The Telegraph, 5th November 2013Justin Lee Collins set for comeback
Shamed TV comic Justin Lee Collins is set to make his comeback a year after he was found guilty of subjecting his ex-girlfriend to bullying hell. The ex-Friday Night Project host will take to the stage at St James's Theatre in central London later this month as part of a pop-up comedy event.
Janine Yaqoob, The Mirror, 3rd November 2013Stewart Lee: The achetypal smug leftie comedian? Moi?
"There was a newspaper article saying I had reduced Michael McIntyre's wife to tears at an awards ceremony or something. I wasn't even at the ceremony but because of one line I used about McIntyre I'm now accused of hating him."
Brian Boyd, The Irish Times, 18th October 2013Review: Stewart Lee: Much A-Stew About Nothing
While not the tightly-spun conceptual show that Lee's audiences have come to expect, this work-in-progress outing is still a cut above his contemporaries, and casts a long shadow over the new wave of "young men in t-shirts, remembering things."
Nic Wright, Giggle Beats, 12th October 2013Jo Brand defends Lee Mack's comments on women comics
Jo Brand has defended Lee Mack, who she says was unfairly treated by the press for expressing views on Desert Island Discs recently that women weren't cut out for comedy.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th October 2013Stewart Lee: The end of the world is nigh
A planet-destroying space god has no chance in the news schedules against someone's dad being called a communist.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 6th October 20135 things you might not know about Stewart Lee
Including links to Alexei Sayle, Bridget Christie, Baconface... and Michael McIntyre.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 25th September 2013