Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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This week's new live comedy
Previews of Hal Cruttenden, Stewart Lee and Frank Skinner.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 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 20135 things you might not know about Stewart Lee
Including links to Alexei Sayle, Bridget Christie, Baconface... and Michael McIntyre.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 25th September 2013Stewart Lee - review
Stewart Lee has set the bar so high, he can hardly be criticised for not always vaulting it.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 22nd September 2013Review: Resofit, Bloomsbury Theatre
After an atypically macho high five from Stewart Lee, first late addition Tony Law was on amiably manic form, explaining how he was just back... from Space.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th September 2013