90s Comedian ★★★★ - August 2005 The Scotsman - August 13th, 2005

REVENGE, they say, is a dish best served cold. I have never seen a more cold, calculated, utterly fearless and totally brilliant in-show riposte to anything than the last 25 minutes of Stewart Lee’s set. Lee, having spent much of the year being threatened with everything from lawsuits to death; having seen any commercial viability…

90s Comedian ★★★★★ - August 2005 The Guardian - By Leo Benedictus - August 13th, 2005

In drainpipe jeans and common-sense shirt, Stewart Lee runs up the aisle to the stage and draws a chalk circle around the microphone. This, he explains, is what medieval clowns used to do outside churches in order to protect themselves from being persecuted for heresy. He is going to need it. In the past year,…

90s Comedian ★★★★ - August 2005 The Times - August 12th, 2005

I’VE BEEN doing stand-up for 17 years,” says Stewart Lee, “and I can tell when there is tension in the room.” There is indeed. Lee has long been one of the most skilful, stimulating comics in Britain — never more so than in last year’s exquisite comeback, a demolition job on the false imperatives of…

90s Comedian - August 2005 The Stage - August 12th, 2005

There is no doubting the writing or performance skills of Stewart Lee. He is a top class stand-up as well as the brains behind Jerry Springer – The Opera. This show, however, left you feeling disturbed and nauseous, with a sense that something was awry in Lee’s life. In nine years at the Fringe, I…

90s Comedian ★★★★ - August 2005 One4Review.com - August 12th, 2005

Stewart Lee is probably one of the first alternative comedians that burst onto the scene in the late eighties, as he says himself he has been doing stand-up for seventeen years, but despite forays into the world of journalism and his somewhat publicised involvement with the controversial Jerry Springer The Opera. While these have obviously…

Reactionary Evangelists should look away now ★★★★★ - August 2005 Sunday Herald - August 11th, 2005