Stewart Lee
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Review: How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee
A verbose, sprawling, self-referential memoir by the David Foster Wallace of alternative stand-up.
Ben Thompson, The Independent, 15th August 2010Interview: Stewart Lee, comic
Ever wonder how a comic constructs an act? How they layer and time riffs to generate laughs or howls of outrage? If so, you're in luck. In How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart Lee offers the ultimate insider's guide to the process.
Lee Randall, The Scotsman, 15th August 2010Win tickets to Stewart Lee's Silver Stewbilee
Writer, comedian and director Stewart Lee returns to the stage at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival and you could win one of five pairs of tickets to the show.
The Guardian, 4th August 2010Frank Chickens: Edinburgh gods
In its idiotic, meaningless search for a 'Comedy God' at the Fringe, Foster's is finding the joke's on them.
Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 3rd August 2010Stewart Lee interview: The Fringe, Comedy Gods and Fist
It seems right that I start my interview with Stewart Lee by asking about an e-mail he had sent to promoters of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, criticising a poll they had created to find the public's Comedy God...
Barry Donovan, Den Of Geek, 3rd August 2010Stewart Lee, master of the insects
Final extract from his new book.
Stewart Lee, Chortle, 2nd August 2010Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf
What happens to a man who compulsively collects comics, books, records and CDs? He becomes very good at building shelves... Comedian Stewart Lee on the challenges and hazards of extreme storage.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 1st August 2010Stewart Lee: 'How much homage can one man take?'
Our second exclusive extract from Stewart Lee's new book.
Stewart Lee, Chortle, 30th July 2010Stewart Lee: Alternative Comedian
Exclusive first extract from Lee's new book How I Escaped My Certain Fate.
Stewart Lee, Chortle, 28th July 2010Comedy deserves to be treated more seriously than this
'The most shameful, inane thing I have seen in all the years I have been doing the Fringe.' Now there's a quote that cries out to be printed somewhere in big, big letters, as stand-up Stewart Lee knew fine well when he wrote his open letter to the Edinburgh Comedy Awards last week.
Andrew Eaton, The Scotsman, 27th July 2010