Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 34
Stewart Lee: so Cameron can lie, but comics can't...
My comedy routines are held accountable to higher legal standards of truth and decency than a prime minister's conference speech.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 18th October 2015Review - Stewart Lee: Room With A Stew
Even in this putative stage, these are routines that are unafraid to fail, sometimes on purpose, in the cause of taking the audiences to places they could never expect. And that's what great art - including great comedic art - should surely be striving for.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 29th September 2015Stewart Lee: not easy getting jokes from migrant crisis
I wish Isis, Tony Blair and President Assad would think of the hidden costs of their actions. I'm trying to make a living here.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 13th September 2015Fist of Fun, season 1 review
In 1995, comedy writing duo Stewart Lee and Richard Herring created this bizarre sketch show that was both of its era and eerily revolutionary.
Anglonerd, 9th September 2015Liam Williams review
As with Stewart Lee (an influence Liam Williams openly declares), there are few real zingers here.
Will Noble, Londonist, 9th September 2015Review: Richard Herring's Leicester Square Podcast
Richard Herring's latest podcast comes complete with an elephant in the room. Unless I missed it his interview with Bridget Christie doesn't contain any mention of her "fictional husband", aka Herring's comedy partner Stewart Lee.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th September 2015Comedian of the month #19: Eleanor Tiernan
This month's Comedian Of The Month is the ever articulate and artistically mature Eleanor Tiernan, a comic who is particularly recognisable on the stand up circuit as a result of her time spent supporting acts such as Tommy Tiernan, Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter, Ardal O'Hanlon and Jason Byrne.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 2nd September 201510 years of Tories allows decent political comedy
Political comedy used be an orthodox, tub-thumping affair. Today, it's a far subtler art, with Nish Kumar, Sheeps, Stewart Lee and Ahir Shah all reinventing the form.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 28th August 2015Reviewer review: Dominic Cavendish (The Telegraph)
Dominic Cavendish is perhaps best known, among comedians anyway, as the man who walked out of a Stewart Lee gig. Appalled by Lee's apparent contempt for his audience, Cavendish asked why "the capacity crowd didn't mutiny at this sardonic onslaught". The reason, in the heads of most comedygoers, was that they understood the context of the contempt. To which Cavendish replied that he understood that his fans understood, but it was getting a bit tired. And anyone who has seen Stewart Lee's website will know that the appalled outbursts of reviewers are simply collected and put on display like little trophies. It's hard to win an argument with someone hellbent on self-deconstruction.
Mister Kipper, FringePig, 26th August 2015Spotlight: Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee chats to The Skinny about being simultaneously a well- and unknown comedian and the importance of Edinburgh.
Tony Makos, The Skinny, 4th August 2015