Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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26 of Stewart Lee's most gloriously acerbic jokes
"I hate Twitter. It's like a state surveillance agency staffed by gullible volunteers."
Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 5th April 2018BBC set to broadcast Stewart Lee stand-up show
The BBC is set to broadcast Stewart Lee's latest stand-up show, Content Provider. The comedian is set to take a long break from performing following the conclusion of his tour.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2018Are we set for a resurgence in right-wing comedy?
A new generation of right-wing comics are taking on the left - but can they avoid guilt by association?
Rohan Banerjee, The New Statesman, 26th February 2018Stewart Lee, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury - review Read m
The sexual practices of impoverished Midlanders are not your usual stand-up material but then Stewart Lee is no ordinary comedian.
Harry Leather, The Shropshire Star, 22nd February 2018How 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 2017