Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 9th, 2025

I’d say writing comedy about the ever-shifting opinions of Donald Trump, the Speedy Gonzales of on-the-hoof policymaking, is like playing pin the tail on the donkey, but it’s unfair on donkeys. No donkey ever sexually assaulted someone in a department store changing cubicle. It’s 4.30pm on Wednesday and I’m done. Last week I filed this…

Trump has turbocharged the news cycle and I’m struggling to keep up - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 2nd, 2025

The smelly thoughts of Donald Trump bubble up like brown burps in the sort of bombsite pond Chopper bike-riding children were advised to avoid in 1970s public information films. Do they indicate concrete plans, are they designed to provoke, or do they have no meaning, like the gurgles and gasps that can inadvertently escape from…

FROM STEWART LEE – March ’25 – As slippery as a greasy pig since 1968 - February 2025 February 27th, 2025

TWITTER, FACEBOOK, THREADS, AMAZON Get off the platforms! Fight American fascism! 1. NATIONAL GALLERY I will be in The National Gallery, London, on March 14th, from 7pm, talking about Joseph Wright’s Experiment With A Bird and William Hogarth’s The Graham Children. Some other celebs are doing their bits too See ya there Art Fans! NationalGallery.Org…

Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees - February 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 23rd, 2025

Was it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the…

A tale of two suckers: Donald Trump’s plastic straws and Keir Starmer - February 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 16th, 2025

It’s difficult to know whether to set any store by Donald Trump’s bleak and yet also often banal pronouncements, which read as if handfuls of offensive concepts have been tossed into the air by a monkey, read out in whatever order they landed and then made policy. Until it’s clear they can’t work. At which…

Air traffic control to Sir Keir: turbulence ahead - February 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 9th, 2025

To Elon Musk, I say this! To perform one Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration, while simultaneously offering full support to European neo-Nazis, might be considered a misfortune. To perform two Nazi salutes at Donald Trump’s inauguration, while simultaneously offering full support to European neo-Nazis, begins to look like carelessness. I didn’t write that joke.…