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Master of the meta performance has us in stitches - January 2017 Oxford Daily Info - By Clare Dodd - January 31st, 2017
Imagine a sold-out show without a single person in the audience. To be famous enough for ticket touts to buy your seats, but not so famous that people will pay six times the asking price to sit it them – that’s Stewart Lee’s dream. Unfortunately for Lee, virtually all the sold-out seats were filled last…
Fire and brimstone, mate - January 2017 Times Literary Supplement - By MICHAEL CAINES - January 25th, 2017
In this era of alternative facts and fake news it is important to state the undeniable truth of the matter. Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle was one of the funniest television programmes ever, period, as Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer would surely put it. Or rather: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle was one of the funniest television…
Brian Logan’s top 10 comedy of 2016 - December 2016 The Guardian - By Brian Logan - December 13th, 2016
5. Stewart Lee Leicester Square theatre, London Demob happy, perhaps, after the cancellation of his TV show, Comedy Vehicle, Lee’s new set found the éminence grise of contemporary comedy in unusually loose and playful form – visibly enjoying himself, of all things. Yes, you could see the joins between the Brexit material and the critique…
Lee packs a punch - December 2016 Tribune Magazine - By Cary Gee - December 3rd, 2016
Stewart Lee: Content Provider Leicester Square Theatre, London On a stage dressed entirely with other comedian’s bargain basement DVDs – cheaper than bricks made of old dog shit – and framed by Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog, Stewart Lee issues a curmudgeonly warning to any audience member tempted to use their…
Content Provider at Leicester Square Theatre (02/12/16) - December 2016 Advice To The Lovelorn - By Rick Burin - December 3rd, 2016
Stewart Lee: Content Provider at Leicester Square Theatre (02/12/16) − A show with all the virtues and vices of a remarkable, occasionally infuriating stand-up. It’s been marketed as Lee’s first full-length show in five years, but that’s semantics: it’s simply that he’s no longer honing half-hour segments for a TV show, since that TV show’s…