Vegetable Stew REVIEW; Sheffield City Hall - October 2010 The Star - By Sarah Dunn - October 8th, 2010

SHEFFIELD was privileged to have been one of only a handful of places for comic Stewart Lee to test out his new material when he arrived in the city as part of the Grin Up North festival. And the taster of the Vegetable Stew served up to the crowd at City Hall certainly seemed to…

If You Prefer A Milder Comedian DVD Review ★★★★ - October 2010 Time Out - October 5th, 2010

How I Escaped My Certain Fate - October 2010 Chris TT's Blog - By Chris TT - October 3rd, 2010

After looking at such a tiny detail of the Ultrasound song in the last entry, I need to mention stand-up comedian Stewart Lee‘s ferociously brilliant new book How I Escaped My Certain Fate as a great resource if you’re into developing any kind of self-absorbed analysis of your own work-in-performance. (I did have a powerful…

How I Escaped My Certain Fate - August 2010 The Telegraph - By Jeremy Noel-Tod - August 20th, 2010

“It is very much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it,” said Oscar Wilde in “The Critic as Artist” – an aphorism that has probably comforted arts journalists too much. It doesn’t mean that awarding a book stars in a newspaper is harder than writing one in the first place. It…

Stewart Lee: Silver Stewbilee ★★★★ - August 2010 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - August 19th, 2010

Such is Stewart Lee’s influence on comedy, not only can he fill a 2,000-seat venue amid all the rest of the Fringe hoopla, but he can also persuade thousands of people to vote that an obscure Japanese avant-garde troupe they’ve never seen is the best comedy show ever – and yet do it in the…

How I Escaped My Certain Fate - August 2010 The Independent - By William Cook - August 13th, 2010

Stewart Lee always seemed a bit too clever to be a really successful stand-up comic. Even in his early twenties he came across as world-weary, with a seen-it-all-before persona that belied his baby-faced appearance. It was as if he could never quite forget the inherent absurdity of stand-up comedy – reciting a rehearsed monologue, pretending…