Deadpan, unfazed, poker-face comic Stewart Lee is exactly the same in interviews as on stage. He talks slowly, rarely changes pitch and delivers long answers, usually with a sardonic payoff. When he laughs, you take a deep breath: a small part of him, far below the surface, might actually be enjoying himself. “I think it’s…
British comedy has undergone an elitist ‘stitch-up’, with poorer performers being ‘priced out’ of success, Stewart Lee has claimed. The respected comic also railed against the BBC for allowing its forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe coverage to be dominated by one of the industry’s most powerful agents… and vowed to try to use Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy…
Without doubt Stewart Lee cut a heroic figure in my life for a certain period. He was obviously brilliant yet had been totally abandoned by the mainstream for no clear reason. It fascinated me that someone who was so obviously a genius in his field was playing small rooms and doing wilfully odd things at…