Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Stewart Lee: Much A-Stew About Nothing - review
The self-pity act requires a fine balance because it can teeter on the edge of depressing. The comedy comes from the air of baffled anger and resignation in the delivery, and the fact that even his oldest fans can never be quite sure how much of it is put on. Fortunately, Lee is a master of the form.
Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian, 10th November 2013Opinion: Has Stewart Lee gone too meta this time?
The trouble with Lee is that these days his comedy is so "meta" it is hard to know on what level to take his material.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th November 2013This week's new live comedy
Previews of Hal Cruttenden, Stewart Lee and Frank Skinner.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 9th November 2013Why I walked out of a Stewart Lee gig
Stewart Lee's contempt for his audience is becoming a grimly unedifying spectacle.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 9th November 2013Comedy review: Stewart Lee
The mix of pathos and playfulness is heightened in a closing sequence where Stewart Lee puffs himself up only to puncture his ego and portrays himself as a burnt out performer, berated by his family who apply their own 'dropped star' rating to him.
Julian Hall, The Independent, 8th November 2013Stewart Lee review
Even when workshopping fresh routines (which, in fact, he's been road-testing for six months), the iconoclastic comedian is on spectacularly funny form.
Ben Williams, Time Out, 8th November 2013Review - Stewart Lee: Much A-Stew About Nothing
It's a darkly heartfelt section that goes much deeper than the stock thoughts about ageing that many a middle-aged male comic might share...
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th November 2013Stewart Lee: The achetypal smug leftie comedian? Moi?
"There was a newspaper article saying I had reduced Michael McIntyre's wife to tears at an awards ceremony or something. I wasn't even at the ceremony but because of one line I used about McIntyre I'm now accused of hating him."
Brian Boyd, The Irish Times, 18th October 2013Review: Stewart Lee: Much A-Stew About Nothing
While not the tightly-spun conceptual show that Lee's audiences have come to expect, this work-in-progress outing is still a cut above his contemporaries, and casts a long shadow over the new wave of "young men in t-shirts, remembering things."
Nic Wright, Giggle Beats, 12th October 2013Stewart Lee: The end of the world is nigh
A planet-destroying space god has no chance in the news schedules against someone's dad being called a communist.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 6th October 2013