Stewart Lee – The Lowry, Salford ★★★ - May 2017 North West End - By Max Eden - May 22nd, 2017

Stewart Lee is back in stand up after his BBC Two series was cancelled for a remake of Are You Being Served. Lee starts his comedy set with his usual rather angry persona as he blast people using mobile phones and how he’s going to crush them and take them, the show continues in this…

Stewart Lee @ Warwick Arts Centre, 11th May 2017 - May 2017 Who's Laughing Now Blog - By Simon Harper - May 18th, 2017

When is a show about Brexit and Trump not about Brexit and Trump? Stewart Lee‘s latest effort was an essay on the social media-driven cultural landscape, refracted through a prism of 2016’s EU referendum and US presidential election. Set against a backdrop of cheap stand-up DVDs and an artistic framing device, Content Provider was yet…

The most intelligent stand-up and wittiest wordsmith of his generation - May 2017 The Hunts Post - By Matt North - May 15th, 2017

With his award-winning BBC TV series being cancelled and the BBC’s funding instead ploughed into a remake of Are you being served (well, according to this showanyway), Stewart Lee has returned to his roots and thrown himself into a punishing tour schedule starting in June 2016 taking him all the way through to April 2018.…

Content Provider (on tour) - May 2017 Sue In The Stalls - By Sue In The Stalls - May 12th, 2017

Stewart Lee seeks to divide his audience. His own biography is evidence of this, ending as it does with two quotes: “One of the top three or four living stand-ups..” – Time Out  “The worst stand-up I have ever seen”  – Graham Simmons, Chortle He begins his set by complaining about the type of audience…

Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry ★★★★★ - May 2017 Coventry Telegraph - By Alan Poole - May 5th, 2017

Every comedian, even the most wilfully alternative of comedians, has to have a catchphrase and Stewart Lee’s long-established calling card is ‘I can write jokes, but I choose not to…’ As it happens he doesn’t use those actual words this time round but he proves his point by punctuating his gloriously meandering shaggy-dog monologues with…

Content Provider – Warwick Arts Centre ★★★★ - May 2017 Whatson Live - By Steve Adams - May 4th, 2017

The axing of his Comedy Vehicle TV series might rankle with Stewart Lee – particularly when the BBC can find the money to remake Are You Being Served – but has probably been a blessing in disguise for the country’s most original comedian. He might have been forced to develop new avenues to rustle up…