Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Review – The Bloody Critique - November 2016 steemit.com - By soundlegion - November 24th, 2016

”No one is equipped to review me” – Stewart Lee Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, written and performed by Stewart Lee himself, takes place in a small venue in London, and it’s basically a half hour stand-up set, cut back and forth between short sketches in the first season, and a hostile mock interview segment from…

Stewart Lee, comedian’s comedian, is one of the best stand-ups - November 2016 Mature Times - By Robert Tanitch - November 24th, 2016

I think I can state with a fair degree of certainty that audiences coming out of the theatre will from now on be identifying the man in Gaspar David Friedrich’s 1818 painting, The Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog, with Stewart Lee. Lee, stand-up comedian and columnist, has won many British Comedy Awards for his…

Stewart Lee at the Leicester Square Theatre, WC1 ★★★★★ - November 2016 The Times - By Dominic Maxwell - November 17th, 2016

It starts with a cheerily vivid threat of violent retribution to users of camera phones. It ends with a visual punchline: a riposte to generation selfie delivered from on top of piles of rival comedians’ remaindered DVDs. And in the two hours of jokes about Brexit, Trump and “the individual in a digitised free-market society”…

Brexit, Trump and a history of bondage ★★★★ - November 2016 The Guardian - By Brian Logan - November 17th, 2016

Brexit and Trump now loom over culturally engaged comedy, where behind-the-curve jokes can be easily exposed. Stewart Lee – just as his wife, Bridget Christie, did in Edinburgh this year – begins by complaining that his new show, Content Provider, has been derailed by the EU vote. The original idea was to explore, with reference…

Review at Leicester Square Theatre, London - November 2016 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - November 17th, 2016

In Content Provider, Stewart Lee‘s agenda is nothing less than all that’s wrong with the world in this social media age, from the insular echo-chamber of opinion, through selfie-taking solipsism to the instant gratification that means no experience is hard-won, leading to a generation of infantilised young adults defined only by the shallow. They are…

A venomously funny set brimming over with bile about the state of humanity - November 2016 Evening Standard - By Bruce Dessau - November 17th, 2016

If everything had gone to plan Stewart Lee would be working on material for his fifth BBC2 series now. But his television show was axed this year, offering him the chance to vent his spleen unedited onstage instead. The result is a venomously funny set brimming over with bile about the state of humanity. The…