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How I Escaped My Certain Fate - July 2010 The Times - By Andrew Billen - July 28th, 2010
He’s hated by religious zealots and disliked by half of every venue he plays, but is Stewart Lee as bitter as he seems? One school of thought holds that it is classiest never to complain and never explain. Stewart Lee, judged either “the most exciting comedian in the country bar none” (The Times) or the…
How I Escaped My Certain Fate is an excellent book ★★★★★ - July 2010 The Metro - By Mickey Noonan - July 27th, 2010
Book review: Stewart Lee’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life And Deaths Of A Stand-Up Comedian (Faber and Faber, £12.99) gives readers a fascinating glimpse into how much heart and soul one man puts into making people laugh. Stewart Lee’s analytical, patience-testing brand of pedantic comedy has earned him legendary status on the…
A master of withering reasonableness - July 2010 The Irish Times - By Stephen Dixon - July 24th, 2010
How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life & Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian By Stewart Lee, Faber & Faber, 378pp. £12.99 STEWART Lee on the 2005 London Al-Qaeda bombings: “Who are they, these inhuman bombers that strike at the very heart of our society with no respect for human life, without even the courtesy…
How I Escaped My Certain Fate ★★★★ - July 2010 List Magazine - By Jay Richardson - July 22nd, 2010
Like Ezra Pound’s notes on The Waste Land if they’d been more cutting, self-critical and in awe of Johnny Vegas, Stewart Lee here transcribes and annotates the three stand-up shows that brought him back from disillusioned retirement in 2001 to his position as one of the UK’s most revered struggling comedians. From conception through to…
This Summer, I Will Mostly Be Reading… - July 2010 Caught By The River - By Andrew Male - July 14th, 2010
It’s not culled from the world of nature but what I’m reading at the moment, which I wished I’d saved for a sylvan glade somewhere, is ‘How I Escaped My Certain Fate’ (Faber & Faber) by the comedian Stewart Lee. Ostensibly, it’s but three transcriptions of Lee’s stand-up routines from the past ten years, in…