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Interview: Asian Dub Foundation & Stewart Lee
We caught up with ADF's Steve Chandra Savale to find out more about the track and the campaign for Brexit Number One. (Please note that this interview was conducted before the Christmas Eve announcement of an EU-UK agreement).
Paul Maps, Joyzine, 28th December 2020Stewart Lee on his campaign to get to No 1
Let's show we don't all subscribe to the worst racist rhetoric of Brexit.
Stewart Lee, Chortle, 28th December 2020Campaign to make Stewart Lee song 1st No. 1 of 2021
Music group Asian Dub Foundation have hatched a plan to make their single, Comin' Over Here, featuring a guest appearance from Stewart Lee, the UK's first No.1 single of 2021 - the moment the reality of Brexit might really hit home.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st December 2020Robin Ince's carnival of comics, comets & The Cure
From Harry Hill to Helen Sharman, Ince's Christmas mashup of comedy, science and music - Nine Lessons and Carols for Socially Distanced People - reached dizzy heights.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 14th December 2020Tributes as comedy producer David Johnson dies at 60
The words of comedy and theatre have today paid tribute to ebullient producer David Johnson, who died yesterday at the age of 60.
Chortle, 14th December 2020Ian Cognito film being made
Ian Cognito, the hellraising stand-up comedian who died in 2019, is to be the subject of a new film.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd October 2020Stewart Lee sings on folk album
Stewart Lee's spoken words and vocals will feature on improvising violinist's Laura Cannell's These Feral Lands Volume I folk album.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd September 2020Stunning portraits of stellar stand-ups
From Ken Dodd and his tickling stick to Nina Conti and her monkey, Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton has snapped a host of superb comedians on stage.
Tristram Kenton, The Guardian, 9th September 2020Stewart Lee: The divided land of 'woke' and Tory
The Daily Telegraph, a part-work of Conservative press releases given away free with Buxton water at selected branches of WH Smith, attempted to kickstart a culture skirmish, saying "senior sources at the BBC" claimed Tim Davie would be clamping down on "leftwing" comedies.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 6th September 2020The future of jokes
With the threat of social media outrage seemingly ever-present, what we will laugh at in the future and where we will do it?
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 3rd September 2020