Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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How Lee and Herring subverted TV and bewildered the BBC
Picture the scene: it's a gentle Sunday lunchtime in the late 1990s. Some dreary politics show has just finished on BBC One. The smell of roast potatoes wafts through the house. Grandma's dozing in the armchair, a neighbour's out washing their car, and the wholesome warbling of Radio 4 hangs in the air. Ahhh, Sunday.
Then you turn over to BBC Two, where a grown man wearing fake breasts is squirting milk into the face of a Prince William effigy.
Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 14th February 2018Stewart Lee: How I became the king of cetacean comedy
The revelation that a killer whale can talk took me back to my days improvising for an audience of dolphins.
Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 4th February 2018South Bank run for Stewart Lee, then he takes a break
Stewart Lee is to perform a run of his latest show at the Royal Festival Hall on April 19, 20 & 23.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st January 2018When comedy double acts split
David Baddiel, Andy Zaltzman, Richard Herring and other comics on fame, failure and friendship.
Simon Parkin, The Guardian, 27th January 2018Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People 2017 review
For a show based upon the rigours of the scientific process, Robin Ince's annual celebration of the curious and the creative has some pretty large margins of error. Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People? More like 19, by my count of the guests.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th December 2017Stewart Lee: Can Harry & Meghan make Britain whole?
Meghan Markle's name even sounds like 'Mrs Merkel', and she symbolises an America far better than Trump's.
The Observer, 3rd December 2017Stewart Lee: My attempt to sell satire to Daily Mail
It's all very well for Paperchase to ditch the hatemongering tabloid. But what now for my range of ironic Mail-themed greetings cards?
Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 26th November 2017Stewart Lee review
This was close to becoming an evening of unbearable awkwardness.
Leigh Sanders, The Express and Star, 23rd September 2017Review: Stewart Lee divides and conquers
You're left with the impression that however much Stage Stew claims to despise us, Real Stew will always have a soft spot for his audience - as he exits the stage not to the side, but by diving into the fog. Into us.
Tom Evans, Liverpool Echo, 16th September 2017What happened to the comedy trademark?
Comedians once embraced a signature quip or look, so why have such tropes fallen out of favour?
James Kettle, The Guardian, 7th August 2017