‘If there`s one thing I can`t stand… it`s the creeping commercialisation of secular Christmas shows` Stewart Lee ‘Welcome to my folly‘, declared Robin Ince as he opens Nine Lessons…, his massive sell-out Rationalist Celebration of comedy and science for Christmas. With a star-studded line-up included Richard Dawkins, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Simon Singh, Richard Herring,…
1) Series 4 STEWART LEE’S COMEDY VEHICLE OCT 10TH DVD https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KM7MJBI/ Stewart Lee’s final, and most punishing, BAFTA and multiple-British Comedy Award winning BBC2 stand-up series; recorded live at The Mildmay Club in Stoke Newington, it features six half hour sets on Wealth, Islamophobia, Patriotism, Death, The Migrant Crisis, and Childhood Memories. Chris Morris returns…
Stewart Lee continues on cracking form with his third series of six contrary, tricksy and super-smart stand-up sets. As the house comedian of the metropolitan liberal elite, he puts in his sights such subjects as inequitable wealth distribution and the mentality underlying UKIP’s rise (‘If you say you’re English these days you get arrested and…
In an era of interchangeable panel-show perennials and observational blandness, the confrontational yet relentlessly hilarious Stewart Lee has never felt more vital. Since the mid-’90s – when, alongside Richard Herring, the Shropshire-born comic became a cult icon on BBC2’s ‘Fist of Fun’ and ‘This Morning with Richard Not Judy’ – Lee has been consistently iconoclastic.…
Until recently, Stewart Lee was still flogging his own DVDs in the foyer after his shows, but a couple of BBC2 series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and a pair of 2011 British Comedy Awards have taken him on to the next level, a state of affairs that doesn’t sit entirely comfortably with this most…