FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee March 2019 - February 2019 February 28th, 2019

“In contrast with (my) generation, which had spent most of its time online learning to code so that it could add crude butterfly animations to the backgrounds of its weblogs, the generation immediately following had spent most of its time online making incredibly bigoted jokes in order to laugh at the idiots who were stupid…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee JAYNARY 2019 - January 2019 January 7th, 2019

1) CONTENT PROVIDER BBC CONTENT PROVIDER is on BBC I-player until end of March. And all the COMEDY VEHICLES seem to have gone back up too. See how the world has changed in a decade. 2) King Rocker https://www.kingrockerfilm.com/   How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role…

THE ULTIMATE CONTENT PROVIDER REVIEW - December 2018 London Review Of Books - By Alan Bennett - December 5th, 2018

Stewart Lee makes stand-up and almost moral pursuit., predicting an audience’s reaction (or lack of it), to his material in a way that makes the usual (and more popular) stand-ups seem crude and obvious. He’s fearless, undeterred by an audience’s failure to respond, even welcoming it so he can analyse it, tracking down the missing…

Stewart Lee and Brexit Denialism - August 2018 Plinth - By Sammi Gale - August 9th, 2018

In 2016, Deal or No Deal was axed by Channel 4, the British public voted to Leave the European Union, and Stewart Lee started touring his show Content Provider, whose opening gambit is that the shock of Brexit has rendered its script obsolete. Now it is 2018: Content Provider has been filmed for the BBC,…

No one is equipped to review me. - August 2018 Reasons To Be Cheerful Blog - By Ryan T - August 5th, 2018

‘No one is equipped to review me.’ (Stewart Lee.) It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a comedian in possession of a good humour, must be in want of a TV deal. For the comics that routinely leave the stage to rapturous applause, TV executives wait in the wings, plotting how best to repackage the sweat…

Unfunny face of TV comedy says GARRY BUSHELL - July 2018 The Daily Star - By Garry Bushell - July 29th, 2018

Stewart Lee was on TV for two hours last night, but it felt much longer We can’t be sure which part of his marathon snooze-athon appealed most to the BBC. But I’ll go out on a limb and suggest it was when Lee put the boot into Brexit supporters. “It wasn’t just racists who voted…