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Content Provider - October 2018 October 30th, 2018
Content Provider was released on 4th August 2016, through Faber. “Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular newspaper columns. Will Scotland become the Promised Land of the…
How I Escaped My Certain Fate (The Life & Deaths Of A Standup Comedian) - October 2018 October 30th, 2018
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why ‘wool’ is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face! In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making…
The “If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One” EP - October 2018 October 30th, 2018
Following his hugely acclaimed TV come-back, Comedy Vehicle, Lee finds himself spent and in search of ideas for a new Edinburgh show. On a long walk across London, he endures a coffee shop humiliation involving a loyalty card, which suggests itself as a comedy routine about everyday life that anyone could enjoy. Later that month,…
The Perfect Fool - October 2018 October 30th, 2018
My first novel, released in June 2001 by Fourth Estate. From the back of the book: “The Perfect Fool” charts the progress of a collection of misfits, spread across the wide open spaces of Arizona & the narrow streets of South London, all unwittingly caught up in a quest for the Holy Grail. Mr Lewis…
No Such Thing As A Free Ride - October 2018 October 30th, 2018
I have a short piece, West From Walpi, in this anthology of writing about hitch-hiking. A literary road movie to take you on a trip of a lifetime, featuring a collection of hitch-hiking tales from around the world by over 90 contributors, including pieces from Alastair Campbell, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Max Hastings, George Monbiot, Lembit…