Pick Of The Day: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - March 2009 The Mirror - By Jane Simon - March 16th, 2009

Stewart Lee’s comedy vehicle looks like a clown car. His show appears to be a stand-up gig in a nightclub, with added sketches, and Stewart Lee himself looks like a middle-aged man in a suit that’s straining at the buttons. It’s not a comedy suit though, like Harry Hill’s trademark collars. It’s more like the…

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - March 2009 The Radio Times - March 14th, 2009

Comedy Of The Week - March 2009 Radio Times - March 14th, 2009

Comic’s Flush With Delight At His Own Show - March 2009 The Daily Record - March 14th, 2009

Thinking person’s stand-up Stewart Lee has been in the wilderness for years in terms of his TV career and it seems he is as surprised as anyone at the BBC that he has suddenly been restored to the box in his own series. After trying out material for a projected series last year while performing…

41st Best Standup Ever! DVD - December 2008 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - December 22nd, 2008

This is an extended version of sardonic Stewart Lee’s acclaimed 2007 Edinburgh show, prompted by his ranking in a Channel 4 run-down. His rating got him pondering the importance of popularity – particularly given that his own mother doesn’t think he’s in the same league as Tom O’Connor, whom she once saw perform on a…

Shades of Blackadder in Elizabeth & Raleigh - October 2008 The Evening Standard - By Bruce Dessau - October 15th, 2008

It is impossible to produce an irreverent historical comedy without inviting comparisons with Blackadder and this romp certainly knows it. Writer Stewart Lee even makes a pre-emptive strike by namechecking Baldrick and co’s authors Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. Maybe he should give them some royalties, too. The tissue-thin plot involves Raleigh (Miles Jupp) wooing…