The past twelve months have been, shall we say, rather turbulent for Mr. Lee. Riding high on a wave of critical and popular acclaim for his controversial musical Jerry Springer: The Opera, he became engulfed by a mega tsunami of opposition from the rather more reactionary Christian right that nearly drowned him. Before you stop…
And just when you thought the modern wise guy had evolved from revelling in scatological humour, Stewart Lee proved otherwise. Lee began with September 11 and five minutes later there was a sustained flatulence joke. Trying to yoke the momentous with the ridiculous was not a promising start and it got worse. Lee’s obsession with…