If everything had gone to plan Stewart Lee would be working on material for his fifth BBC2 series now. But his television show was axed this year, offering him the chance to vent his spleen unedited onstage instead. The result is a venomously funny set brimming over with bile about the state of humanity. The…
The funniest standup I’ve ever seen Kevin McAleer. In the late 80s his slide show, mainly of owls, during which he describes inaccurately a succession of bland images, reduced me to tears, and years ago his then current show, loosely derived from Dostoyevsky, made me fall off a chair in actual pain. I think he…
Today I am scratchy-throated from laughing so much. The reason for my hoarseness? Stewart Lee’s brilliant gig at the Liverpool Philharmonic last night. I haven’t laughed so much and so hard in ages. This was a very special night. I had heard about the gig via Stewart’s newsletters in the summer and promptly booked my…
Comedian Stewart Lee favoured the Watford Colosseum with the debut of his new tour Stewart Lee: Digital Content Provider last Tuesday night but after railing at the audience for not laughing in all the right places he told us not to come to his show if we ‘didn’t know anything’. But what does the acclaimed…