Stewart Lee has the crowd in the palm of his hand right from the get-go at his Bristol Comedy Garden set on Sunday, July 7, the last performance in this year’s series. “I know what you’re thinking… Julian Assange has let himself go,” he quips, adding to the long list of lookalikes he has referenced…
Our hero stumbles onto the stage with a pint, bundle of A4 with unkept hair and grey beard (Julian Assange has let himself go…..Father Abraham from The Smurfs has let himself go…..) for this hastily scheduled Work In Progress show for his Work In Progress show at the weekend. He later reveals that a visit…
In 2016, Deal or No Deal was axed by Channel 4, the British public voted to Leave the European Union, and Stewart Lee started touring his show Content Provider, whose opening gambit is that the shock of Brexit has rendered its script obsolete. Now it is 2018: Content Provider has been filmed for the BBC,…
‘No one is equipped to review me.’ (Stewart Lee.) It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a comedian in possession of a good humour, must be in want of a TV deal. For the comics that routinely leave the stage to rapturous applause, TV executives wait in the wings, plotting how best to repackage the sweat…