FROM THE WOKE CESSPIT OF STEWART LEE – DEC 2024 Regularly Returning The Sausage Since 1968 - December 2024 December 2nd, 2024

“A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! LET’S HOPE IT’S THE FIRST ONE WITHOUT ANDREW NEIL!” Some notes on this tour – I’m seeing various things speculating on-line about why I am doing particular venues, with various imagined personal motivations. I have seen this called a stadium tour; that I have ‘sold out’…

Flat-cap Clarkson only wants his nose in the trough - November 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - November 24th, 2024

I read Andrew Michael Hurley’s new novel, Barrowbeck, in preparation for co-hosting Tales of the Weird, a timely event on the folk horror genre at the British Library earlier this month. I’m not the most informed commentator on this literary subset by any means, but I am, after Mark Gatiss, one of the most famous,…

If I were Captain America, I’d quit - November 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - November 10th, 2024

The presidency of Donald Trump contaminates everything that touches it, like dogshit on the end of a pointed stick. Be careful, politicians of the world, entertainment brands, and commercial properties, that you don’t get any on you. It stinks. On Monday night, one of my lovely rescue cats, having battled the cat flap into submission,…

Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure - October 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - October 27th, 2024

The first time I saw the Cure was on 29 April 1984. The Birmingham Odeon show opened with a set from rural Worcestershire’s pre-Raphaelite goths And Also the Trees, whose early albums remain a guilty pleasure, and about whom I once sent a self-aggrandising letter to ZigZag magazine. The Cure’s set drew heavily on the…

FROM THE WOKE CESSPIT OF STEWART LEE NOV 2024 – Regularly Returning The Sausage Since 1968 - October 2024 October 26th, 2024

STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF – LONDON SOUTH BANK ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL DATES, 5TH-13TH JULY 2025, ON SALE https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/stewart-lee-vs-the-man-wulf/ Dear fans! I hope you are all well. I have been as unwell as I have been for about a decade and spent much of October in bed hallucinating and hot. I lost weeks of try-outs…

ALTERNATIVE COMEDY CASTRATED ON THE ALTAR OF TASTE! - October 2024 October 10th, 2024

OK WULF-FANS! By next Summer you may have seen STEWART LEE VS THE mutha-fuckin’ MAN-WULF in your local theatre, and although all other London shows are now sold out, in July ’25 there are six (count ’em) performances in the symphonic surroundings of THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL in THAT LONDON. The show promises to be…