The Caught by the River Book of the Month: August - August 2016 Caught By The River - By Ben Myers - August 6th, 2016

Comedians don’t make it easy for us, the maggoty masses, to love them. Turn on the TV and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the British laughter racket is entirely ruled by bright eyed bouncy young pups eager to sell their souls to pithy panel shows and advertising campaigns for that fast-track route to the…

Content Provider by Stewart Lee - August 2016 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - August 3rd, 2016

Now you don’t have to wait for David Mitchell to go on holiday to read Stewart Lee’s musings. For the comedian and stand-in Observer columnist has assembled five years’ worth of his articles for the Sunday broadsheet, and a handful of other outlets, in one anthology of over-extended satirical metaphors. But why buy a book…

Content Provider - July 2016 The Metro - July 25th, 2016

Stewart Lee’s series offers rare fidelity to the “warts and all” of live comedy. - July 2016 popmatters.com - By Haran Sivapalan - July 5th, 2016

Live vs. Televised Comedy A comedy audience is a capricious animal. Sometimes it cackles on cue, lapping up punchlines with an almost-Pavlovian predictability. At other times, it merely stares back at you, seemingly unresponsive to the highly crafted material it’s fed. The responses are not always binary like this. Often, the organism mutates and divides…

Stewart Lee opens Bristol comedy festival with anti-Brexit rally - June 2016 Bristol Post - By M_Ribbeck - June 29th, 2016

We are living in strange times in the country and it really does feel like we are going through a historical moment in history. As Bristol’s first night of the annual Comedy Garden festival got under way a demonstration was taking place in the wind and the rain just a couple of hundred yards away.…

Is it time for All Tomorrow’s Parties to call it quits? - May 2016 The Independent - By David Pollock - May 5th, 2016

When one of the people who helped give your festival its name is annoyed with you, does that mean it’s time to call it quits? The latest in a line of troubles for the beleaguered holiday camp weekender All Tomorrow’s Parties came in the lead-up to mid-April’s Stewart Lee-curated festival at Pontins in Prestatyn and…