Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Tickets on sale for Basic Stewart Lee show
Tickets are now on sale for Stewart Lee's next show, Basic Lee, which is scheduled to run at the Leicester Square Theatre from 20th September - 17th December 2022.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th December 2021Glasgow International Comedy Festival permanently axed
Organisers at the Scottish Comedy Agency say that after 18 years, they will no longer be staging the annual event after being hammered by Covid.
Chortle, 26th October 2021Review: Laugharne Weekend
It has regularly been said that the Laugharne Festival is a dream-like event. And this year's three-day arts reverie in the small town in South Wales where Dylan Thomas used to write was no exception.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th October 2021Cancel culture killing comedy? What a joke
Chris Rock, Jennifer Saunders and more have argued that 'wokeness' is stifling comedy. But the idea of the joke police is actually nonsense.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 10th August 2021Stewart Lee: Tory values? Urination, urination...
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen knows the real reason for empty shelves is working-class people going to university.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 8th August 2021Stewart Lee answers 25 year-old questions
In 1996 Stewart Lee was appearing with Richard Herring in the hit TV show Fist Of Fun. Harry Pye interviewed Stewart for his fanzine Frank magazine. 25 years on Pye contacted Mr Lee and asked him to answer the exact same questions once more.
Le Document, 17th June 2021Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator review
To research this Radio 4 essay about the role of the unreliable narrator, Stewart Lee spent almost three weeks with the Inrravat people of northern Canada, who believe in a trickster god whose stories cannot be trusted. What did he learn about this ancient culture? Well, almost nothing in a literal sense as all their stories - as you might expect - are based on lies and exaggeration.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th June 2021Stewart Lee to present Radio 4 documentary on unreliable narration
Stewart Lee is to present a Radio 4 documentary on the literary device of the unreliable narrator. He has also revealed that he was once asked to audition to play Alan Davies in a sitcom.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd June 2021Stewart Lee: Could we have a cultured culture secretary
Oliver Dowden is clearly floundering with the arts. Perhaps the world's greatest living stand-up could help...
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 30th May 2021Pity the poor stand-up in Boris Johnson's kleptocracy
Stewart Lee asks how's a comedian supposed to be keep pace with this ever more farcical government and its diktats?
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 16th May 2021