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HA HA HAMMERSMITH - June 2007 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - June 10th, 2007
With typical aloofness and moral superiority, Stewart Lee unveiled some new material, much of it about the ‘faint praise’ doled out when Channel 4 named him the 41st best ever stand-up. Mentioning it, he admits, affords him a rare chance to combine ‘boastfulness and humility’, but crucially it gives him the chance to pick apart…
You either like him or loathe him, I think. - February 2007 Derby Evening Telegraph - February 9th, 2007
Product: World Remix/ What Would Judas Do? – Bush Theatre, London - January 2007 Culture Wars - By Dolan Cummings - January 22nd, 2007
‘This is edgy. Fucking edgy!’ Mark Ravenhill’s crazed film director tells his prospective star as he comes to a particularly tasteless part of his increasingly ludicrous plot. Product: World Remix, a new production of Ravenhill’s play, which he first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005, consists of an extended pitch for a sexually explicit…
What Would Judas Do? - January 2007 The Stage - January 21st, 2007
Religious bores would be seriously mistaken if they decide to picket the latest dramatic creation from stand up comedian and Jerry Springer – the Opera creator Stewart Lee. What Would Judas Do? is a beautifully touching, intelligent, insightful study of what it was like to be ordinary in the presence of the extraordinary. Lee presents…
What Would Judas Do? - January 2007 The British Theatre Guide - By Philip Fisher - January 20th, 2007
Stewart Lee is one of the men behind Jerry Springer – The Opera and so when he announced that he would perform his own solo play, directed by award-winning writer/actor Will Adamsdale, you could expect seats to go like hot cakes. If nothing else, there were likely to be a few fireworks and, with luck,…