One thing in particular intrigues me about Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. It felt as if he was doing warm-ups and works-in-progress for this series for at least a year in advance around the UK. I assumed that this was to get every phrase, every comma, every pause in the right place. And then along comes…
Stewart Lee, who Mark Watson describes as the compass of comedy, hosts a part standup comedy part sketch show called Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. Just the fact that this show has been on the air for three seasons, and what’s more has been picked up by Hulu in America, gives us hope that intelligent comedy consumers still…
Stewart Lee has been touring the appallingly-titled ‘Room With A Stew’ show so long his agents obviously thought it safe to slip in a second date at Warwick Arts Centre a year after the first, perhaps relying on the punters’ memories being as useless as their ability to grasp his convoluted brand of stand-up –…
“I’d forgotten this was a radical town,” says Stewart Lee during one of this evening’s many semi-improvised asides. Touching on everything from losing out on a Bafta to Graham Norton, to hating yoghurt-drinking under-40s and orienteering with Napalm Death, Lee’s self-styled passive-aggressive approach may be very familiar, but it certainly hasn’t worn thin. His esoteric…
Stewart Lee’s decision to do two nights of the same tour at the Cambridge Corn Exchange (the previous was May 2015) was a mistake. A big mistake that he is quick to criticise and punish the audience for. Within the opening few minutes he has threatened to strike our faces with his microphone stand before…