Starmer’s tiny gaffe has made him a sausage to fortune - September 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - September 29th, 2024

Addressing the subject of Gaza on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer called for the “return of the sausages”, which was a surprise to those of us who didn’t know they were missing. Although, come to think of it, when was the last time you saw a big fat bulldog with a string of them in its…

FROM THE WOKE CESSPIT OF STEWART LEE OCT 2024 Regularly Returning The Sausage Since 1968 - September 2024 September 27th, 2024

Dear fans! I hope you are all well. I had a great summer of weird music and Welsh mountains, but I have been a bit ill with covid or something and had to cancel some warm-ups, so sorry of that affected your plans. I went into a bad acid world of wet cement and sat…

Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake - September 2024 September 15th, 2024

Nihal Arthanayake speaks to Stewart Lee, his first guest in a new series of Headliners, featuring exclusive in-depth interviews. Over the course of the conversation, Stewart touches on fatherhood and the joy of a profession that allows him to remain immature. He talks about the importance of an economy that supports creativity, finding a new…

The Tories have left the stage but their toxic cultural legacy is doing an encore - September 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - September 15th, 2024

Hey-ho! It’s that time of year again when the opaquely funded Tufton Street-linked pressure group Restore Trust expends expensive effort seeding its right-leaning candidates (formerly including the evangelical Stephen Green, who denied the existence of marital rape and once supported Uganda’s death penalty for some homosexuals) on to the board of its hated “woke” National…

FROM THE STALINIST WOKE GULAG OF Stewart Lee SEPT 2024 - September 2024 September 14th, 2024

1) ROBYN HITCHCOCK AT EARTH THIS SATURDAY 14TH I am compering British psychedelic legend Robyn Hitchcock’s show at Earth in Hackney, London this Saturday September 14th, and doing a 30 min greatest hits set. https://earthackney.co.uk/events/robyn-hitchcock-14th-sep-earth-london-tickets-pwq7y/ 2) GLOUCESTER HISTORY FESTIVAL THIS SUNDAY 15TH https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/stewart-lee-in-conversation/ I am in conversation with the Goth antiquarian Janina Ramirez this Sunday…

Oasis: a guilty pleasure without fringe benefits - September 2024 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - September 1st, 2024

“In Russia, nostalgia is regarded as an illness,” declared the mighty comedian Simon Munnery once, “or at least it used to be, in the good old days.” Zing! Oasis, who 30 years ago represented a kind of condensed nostalgia for the previous quarter-century of British rock, are re-forming. The cocaine dealers of Britain are already…