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Here’s some canny proof that you can’t always trust what you hear - June 2021 The Telegraph - By TRISTRAM FANE SAUNDERS - June 16th, 2021
That presenter was the comedian Stewart Lee, whose recent tribute to punk singer Robert Lloyd, King Rocker, has, so far, been one of this year’s most entertaining Dlms. Radio 4 should use him more, pronto. “Chroniclers have been lying to us since the Drst troglodyte daubed an exaggerated bison on a French cave wall,” he…
Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator - June 2021 The Times - By Patricia Nicol - June 13th, 2021
Reardon, as his much-interrupted work on his memoirs attests, is an unreliable narrator, which was the topic of yesterday’s entertaining, inventive Archive on 4, presented by the stand-up and writer Stewart Lee. Lee begins his journey “walking along Cecil Court”, off the Charing Cross Road, which when Lee first arrived in London was lined with…
Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator. - June 2021 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - June 13th, 2021
To research this Radio 4 essay about the role of the unreliable narrator, Stewart Lee spent almost three weeks with the Inrravat people of northern Canada, who believe in a trickster god whose stories cannot be trusted. What did he learn about this ancient culture? Well, almost nothing in a literal sense as all their…
“Words by The Water” Interview - January 2007 Words By The Water - January 1st, 2007
“I read a book about ten years ago by Howard Jacobson called ‘Seriously Funny’. It was a massive historical overview of comedy, but what really caught my imagination were these two paragraphs about Native American Clowns. Six years ago I’d come to the American southwest to research the area and find out more about the…