The most controversial and brilliant live show of the year was Stewart Lee’s 90s Comedian, a riposte to the fundamentalist Christians whose wrong-headed and misinformed protests against the BBC’s screening of Lee’s West End hit Jerry Springer The Opera, last January have cost Lee dearly, financially and psychologically. Deluged with hate mail and threatened with…
Stewart Lee was over the top, spending most of his time on stage talking about vomit. The co-writer of the controversial show, Jerry Springer The Opera, even talked about vomiting into the arse of Jesus Christ. Lee is supposed to be a ground-breaking comedian and writer, but I found little entertainment value in his material.…