You won’t see much of Stewart Lee in his latest TV series starting on February 5. He is executive producer/curator of Comedy Central’s The Alternative Comedy Experience and only crops up briefly interviewing the acts between their appearances. The real stars of the show are the acts – SIMON MUNNERY, ISY SUTTIE, BOOTHBY GRAFFOE, PHIL…
WHEN alternative comedy emerged in the 1980s, a new wave of stand-ups savaged their celebrity predecessors for their crass sexism and racism and naff commercialism. Stewart Lee recalls “taking the piss out of Max Bygraves or whoever … tax-dodging multimillionaires who did any piece of shit that came along, all their material written by other…
Who better to interview a comedian than another comedian? Andrew Doyle talks to Stewart Lee about his recent “wave of popularity”, Twitter, gay marriage, and Jimmy Carr’s tax avoidance. AD: Were you surprised to be recommissioned for a third series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle? SL: Yeah, I was. I was really surprised because there…