Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Stewart Lee on Battersea Arts Centre blaze
Stand-up comic Stewart Lee compared the Battersea Arts Centre fire to watching "the house you grew up in burn down" as he prepared for a star-studded gig to fund its restoration.
Ben Morgan, Evening Standard, 17th April 2015Stewart Lee on his surprise tribute to Shirley Collins
Here's one we didn't see coming. Stewart Lee has contributed to a new compilation album featuring covers of folk singer Shirley Collins, released for Record Store Day (April 18). The record also features Blur's Graham Coxon, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Bonnie Prince Billy, Johnny Flynn and Trembling Bells, to name a few. How'd Lee come to be involved in 'Shirley Inspired' then? We caught up with the comedian to find out.
NME, 17th April 2015Stewart Lee on the general election
Politicians merged with characters from the passion of Christ - and the odd lamb and rabbit - as our standup comic toured the nation.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 12th April 2015Stewart Lee, Russell Howard and 'alternative' comedy
Comedy Central has axed Lee's programme and will broadcast a new one by Howard - leading critics and comedians to debate standup's future on the telly.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 31st March 2015Opinion: Russell Howard 1 Stewart Lee 0
An article about how Stewart Lee's attempts on televising more alternative comedy on Comedy Central are losing out to more mainstream comics like Russell Howard.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th March 2015Bridget Christie and Stewart Lee to headline fundraiser
Married comedians Bridget Christie and Stewart Lee are to headline a fundraising event for Battersea Arts Centre.
Matthew Hemley, The Stage, 25th March 2015Stewart Lee axed: The demise of real stand-up
For stand-up, things are not looking so jolly. Last week Stewart Lee's The Alternative Comedy Experience was axed by Comedy Central. It is the only show I have seen that captures what club comedy really feels like - risky, sweaty, too intimate, teetering between hilarity and despair.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 19th March 2015A Room With A Stew, Festival Theatre Edinburgh, review
Stewart Lee is a comedy magician and long after this lonesome cowboy has skipped your particular town, you'll still be trying to figure out what exactly it was that you were laughing at and how the hell he made you do it.
Justine Blundell, Edinburgh Guide, 17th March 2015Review - Stewart Lee: A Room With A Stew
The Comedy Vehicle comedian continues to intrigue, influence and irritate in wonderful measure.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 16th March 2015Stewart Lee: privatising BBC3 would be pernicious
If BBC Three is sold to the free-market fundamentalists we'll lose the very idea of public broadcasting within a decade.
Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 15th March 2015