Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Stewart Lee talks comedy
Stewart Lee talks comedy, success and why stand-up is the only thing he ever wants to do.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 10th March 2016TV preview: Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, episode 4.2
Warning. This episode contains skipping. Sure enough, Lee suckered his TV viewers in last week with a relatively benign look at the nature of modern comedy and a few cheeky swipes at his fellow entertainers. This week he goes for the jugular, addressing the more tricky question of the rise of Islamophobia and the acceptability of jokes about religion. The skipping, inevitably, comes in a section about a different rise - the rise of observational comedy.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th March 2016Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle roars back
Billed as addressing wealth, it was more specific than that: it was about Lee's wealth, or lack of it.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 4th March 2016"No one is equipped to review me," says Lee, beginning the fourth round of his standup series. He's joking. Kind of. By now, he's basically Oscar Wilde: it's practically impossible to divine any meaning from his increasingly complex pose. Lee says he adopts a snobbish persona to make people "laugh in spite of me, not because of me". Hopefully, that's not a rare moment of earnestness: this is a show dominated by a commentary on audience reaction, real and imagined, that's unlikely to have anyone in stitches.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 3rd March 2016Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle review
Accused of intellectual snobbery, Stewart Lee hits back, pointing out that it's a valid performance device, under the theatrical technique of Brechtian alienation. Thus explaining himself and reinforcing the criticism in one kamikaze blow.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd March 2016Stewart Lee interviewed
Stewart Lee is back with another series of Comedy Vehicle. He tells Simon Price his thoughts on Lenny Bruce, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, swimming through piss, Brexit and the pitfalls of being constantly misunderstood.
Simon Price, The Quietus, 3rd March 2016Sublime stand-up from Stewart Lee
The finest half hour of comedy ever written and performed, in my opinion, was one particular episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.
Tara Pardo, The Bristol Post, 29th February 2016Will Self meets Stewart Lee
As his TV series returns to our screens, comedian Stewart Lee talks to Will Self about his prickly stage persona, how social media is changing comedy and why you won't see him on Mock the Week.
Will Self, The Guardian, 26th February 2016Baconface returns with Global Globules music show
Legendary comedian Baconface is to return to the UK to front a radio show.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th February 2016Ian Cognito: a life in comedy fighting the good fight
Ian Cognito is the most unpredictable member of the 1980's alternative comedy scene. If Stewart Lee had been more iconoclastic, and decided to live on a boat, he would be Cogs.
Jo Duncan, The Bristol Post, 12th February 2016