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Stewart Lee @ Warwick Arts Centre, 11th May 2017 - May 2017 Who's Laughing Now Blog - By Simon Harper - May 18th, 2017
When is a show about Brexit and Trump not about Brexit and Trump? Stewart Lee‘s latest effort was an essay on the social media-driven cultural landscape, refracted through a prism of 2016’s EU referendum and US presidential election. Set against a backdrop of cheap stand-up DVDs and an artistic framing device, Content Provider was yet…
The most intelligent stand-up and wittiest wordsmith of his generation - May 2017 The Hunts Post - By Matt North - May 15th, 2017
With his award-winning BBC TV series being cancelled and the BBC’s funding instead ploughed into a remake of Are you being served (well, according to this showanyway), Stewart Lee has returned to his roots and thrown himself into a punishing tour schedule starting in June 2016 taking him all the way through to April 2018.…
Content Provider (on tour) - May 2017 Sue In The Stalls - By Sue In The Stalls - May 12th, 2017
Stewart Lee seeks to divide his audience. His own biography is evidence of this, ending as it does with two quotes: “One of the top three or four living stand-ups..” – Time Out “The worst stand-up I have ever seen” – Graham Simmons, Chortle He begins his set by complaining about the type of audience…
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry ★★★★★ - May 2017 Coventry Telegraph - By Alan Poole - May 5th, 2017
Every comedian, even the most wilfully alternative of comedians, has to have a catchphrase and Stewart Lee’s long-established calling card is ‘I can write jokes, but I choose not to…’ As it happens he doesn’t use those actual words this time round but he proves his point by punctuating his gloriously meandering shaggy-dog monologues with…
Content Provider – Warwick Arts Centre ★★★★ - May 2017 Whatson Live - By Steve Adams - May 4th, 2017
The axing of his Comedy Vehicle TV series might rankle with Stewart Lee – particularly when the BBC can find the money to remake Are You Being Served – but has probably been a blessing in disguise for the country’s most original comedian. He might have been forced to develop new avenues to rustle up…