The first thing to know about comic Stewart Lee is that much that has appeared about him in print isn’t true. He was not at Oxford with David Cameron. He didn’t invent Alan Partridge. And he is not slavishly politically correct with a smug contempt for his audiences. (He wishes there were more, funny un-PC…
For comics, he is perceived as the ultimate – if inflated – authority on artistic integrity, ‘The Grand Poobah of Comedy’, as Al Murray has dubbed him. Stewart Lee, for his part, thinks the title both unfair but understandable… not to mention ‘really funny because it has the word “poo” in it’. Understandable because this,…
Stewart Lee explains to Lynne Brighouse why he believes that older comedians are the best and improve with age. COMEDIAN Stewart Lee is renowned for not shying away from controversial subjects or statements. His CV includes co-writing and co-directing the mock Broadway hit Jerry Springer: The Opera, which famously sparked off numerous protest demonstrations by…