Gig Review: Stewart Lee @ Liverpool Philharmonic, 2/11/16 - November 2016 So It Goes... - By Mark (A Blogger) - November 3rd, 2016

Today I am scratchy-throated from laughing so much. The reason for my hoarseness? Stewart Lee’s brilliant gig at the Liverpool Philharmonic last night. I haven’t laughed so much and so hard in ages. This was a very special night. I had heard about the gig via Stewart’s newsletters in the summer and promptly booked my…

Don’t you know anything about Watford Stewart Lee? ★★★★★ - November 2016 Watford Observer - By Melanie Anglesey - November 3rd, 2016

Comedian Stewart Lee favoured the Watford Colosseum with the debut of his new tour Stewart Lee: Digital Content Provider last Tuesday night but after railing at the audience for not laughing in all the right places he told us not to come to his show if we ‘didn’t know anything’. But what does the acclaimed…

Britain Through the Eyes of a Comedy Stalwart ★★★★★ - August 2016 EdinburghGuide.com - By Justine Blundell - August 23rd, 2016

Venue: Charlotte Square Gardens Running time: 60mins Performers:  Stewart Lee with Ian Rankin chairing. While David Mitchell was on holiday, stand-up comedian Stewart Lee had the opportunity to take his place as a columnist for the Observer and his latest book, Content Provider, is a collection of some of the funniest of those written between…

Stewart Lee Chats to Ian Rankin at Book Festival - August 2016 EdBookFest - August 20th, 2016

A feisty chat between Ian Rankin and Stewart Lee at the Book Festival saw the blockbuster crime novelist and revered comic trade insults, anecdotes and peculiar allegations about George Osborne and stationery items. Lee’s new book Content Provider brings together prose pieces he has written for newspapers over the years – as well as some of the…

“Content Provider is not a manifesto and Stewart Lee is not Owen Jones” - August 2016 Bookmunch - August 11th, 2016

First, a statement of principles: the person reviewing this book considers himself left-wing at a time when to be even mildly left-wing is to be considered extremely communist, at least in the eyes of anyone who is right-wing (or “mainstream” as I believe at least 80% of all UK media would have it). I voted…

Book Review: Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016, Stewart Lee - August 2016 Beyond The Joke - By Bruce Dessau - August 6th, 2016

You have to have a thick skin to be a columnist. I went off the idea of blogging regularly when I published a think-piece about an offhand remark Josie Long made onstage and Jason Manford responded by saying that I didn’t have to turn every thought into a column. Stewart Lee must have the hide…