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Interview with Stewart Lee

Who better to interview a comedian than another comedian? Andrew Doyle talks to Stewart Lee about his recent "wave of popularity", Twitter, gay marriage, and Jimmy Carr's tax avoidance.

Stewart Lee interview

Stewart Lee prepares to invade The Stand for the filming of his new Comedy Central series, The Alternative Comedy Experience.

Stewart Lee reunites with Richard Herring for podcast

Stewart Lee has reunited on stage with Richard Herring. The former Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy partners spoke together on stage at the Leicester Square Theatre for the eighth podcast in Herring's current series.

Despite some brilliant cameos from Liam Neeson and Johnny Depp, we're thrilled to see Ricky Gervais leave Life's Too Short behind and return to the workplace sitcom. Gervais' new Channel 4 special is set in a retirement home and features the acting debut of An Idiot Abroad presenter Karl Pilkington as Dougie the caretaker. While some (particularly fellow comic Stewart Lee in the Guardian) have pre-emptively damned Derek as insulting, others are praising the script and calling for a full series - all we know is that we can guarantee #derek will be trending on twitter tonight...

Second series of Fist Of Fun to be released on DVD

The second series of Stewart Lee and Richard Herring's Fist Of Fun is to be released on DVD - after the first turned a profit.

Frittering away much of the goodwill garnered by his fine turn in Fresh Meat, Jack Whitehall's country-trotting new show embodies the issues faced by TV commissioners in showcasing stand-ups. Stewart Lee aside, it's hard to think of a comedy vehicle that really works (although plenty deliver ratings). Hit The Road Jack is a noisy, chaotic blend of feeble sketches, passable stand-up, superficial chat and hackneyed Candid Camera-style stunts with a musical turn thrown in. The only thing missing is an identity. This opener sees Whitehall riffing on Welsh traits, bantering with Ruth Jones and cameoing in Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm. The laughs are few - over-indulgent studio audience excepted. He can come back, but only once more on the off-chance it's improved.

There's a great cautionary tale for people wishing to sell their home in this witheringly funny attack on the cult of interior design from Johnny Vegas, Stewart Lee and Rob Thirtle. Never, ever show prospective buyers the post-castration scene from arthouse film Farinelli il Castrato. It will put them off.

Vegas stars as Jeffrey Parkin, an overbearing design obsessive, showing buyers around his home, a turn-of-last-century semi with original features and sympathetic updates. While the play's comic starting point is built upon as Jeffrey bumptiously details his "improvements" and design for living - including a bespoke pan rack based on sketches of the Humber Bridge - the tone shifts to reveal the emotional cracks hidden beneath his tasteful exterior. The message is, it's not home interiors that matter, it's human interiors.