Episode 1 Review - March 2016 Beyond The Joke - By Bruce Dessau - March 2nd, 2016

Stewart Lee has said that nobody is competent to review him. It’s a sentiment he echoes early on in the first episode of his new six-part BBC2 series. So after thinking about doing something more useful with my time I decided to have a go. Does he mean it? It’s a remark like a lot…

Episode 5 Preview - March 2016 Beyond The Joke - By Bruce Dessau - March 1st, 2016

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’s Comedy Vehicle, season 1 - February 2016 Anglonerd - By Jaime Pond - February 22nd, 2016

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…

‘Intelligent and absurd’ Stewart Lee, Warwick Arts Centre - February 2016 Coventry Telegraph - By Steve Adams - February 10th, 2016

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 –…

Stewart Lee, Pavilion, Bournemouth - February 2016 Bournemouth Echo - By Sarah Cartlidge - February 5th, 2016

“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…

Cambridge, Corn Exchange - February 2016 The Prickle - February 3rd, 2016

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…