Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Cancel 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 2021Stewart Lee on Prince Philip
How Prince Philip was turned into a pawn in the phoney culture wars...
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 18th April 2021Stewart Lee releases a Nightingales cover
The comedian has recorded a cover version of the Nightingales 1982 track Use Your Loaf, which will be the B-side of the Birmingham rockers' next single, Ten Bob Each Way.
Chortle, 31st March 2021Leicester Comedy Festival is the tonic we need now
Tom Allen, Al Murray, Zoe Lyons and Ed Byrne are among the comedians taking part.
Becky Jones, Leicester Mercury, 3rd February 2021