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Content Provider at Leicester Square Theatre (02/12/16) - December 2016 Advice To The Lovelorn - By Rick Burin - December 3rd, 2016
Stewart Lee: Content Provider at Leicester Square Theatre (02/12/16) − A show with all the virtues and vices of a remarkable, occasionally infuriating stand-up. It’s been marketed as Lee’s first full-length show in five years, but that’s semantics: it’s simply that he’s no longer honing half-hour segments for a TV show, since that TV show’s…
Stewart Lee, comedian’s comedian, is one of the best stand-ups - November 2016 Mature Times - By Robert Tanitch - November 24th, 2016
I think I can state with a fair degree of certainty that audiences coming out of the theatre will from now on be identifying the man in Gaspar David Friedrich’s 1818 painting, The Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog, with Stewart Lee. Lee, stand-up comedian and columnist, has won many British Comedy Awards for his…
Stewart Lee at the Leicester Square Theatre, WC1 ★★★★★ - November 2016 The Times - By Dominic Maxwell - November 17th, 2016
It starts with a cheerily vivid threat of violent retribution to users of camera phones. It ends with a visual punchline: a riposte to generation selfie delivered from on top of piles of rival comedians’ remaindered DVDs. And in the two hours of jokes about Brexit, Trump and “the individual in a digitised free-market society”…
Brexit, Trump and a history of bondage ★★★★ - November 2016 The Guardian - By Brian Logan - November 17th, 2016
Brexit and Trump now loom over culturally engaged comedy, where behind-the-curve jokes can be easily exposed. Stewart Lee – just as his wife, Bridget Christie, did in Edinburgh this year – begins by complaining that his new show, Content Provider, has been derailed by the EU vote. The original idea was to explore, with reference…
Review at Leicester Square Theatre, London - November 2016 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - November 17th, 2016
In Content Provider, Stewart Lee‘s agenda is nothing less than all that’s wrong with the world in this social media age, from the insular echo-chamber of opinion, through selfie-taking solipsism to the instant gratification that means no experience is hard-won, leading to a generation of infantilised young adults defined only by the shallow. They are…