Don’t make Stewart Lee angry. You wouldn’t like Stewart Lee when he’s angry. And tonight, Stewart Lee is very angry indeed. (Fans of the comic will know the antagonistic stand-up is both a huge Incredible Hulk aficionado – having won celebrity Mastermind with the green monster as his specialist subject – and has a previous…
Curse my last minute ticket purchase! – Resulting in ‘worst seat in the house’ at Brighton Dome Theatre; Row Z, half behind a pillar. Even with glasses, I can’t quite get the nuances in Stew’s facial expressions. It probably won’t matter. I’ve had a crush on him since the Fist of Fun days and should…
For a few seconds, I genuinely thought he was having a breakdown. After two decades of lapping up his edgy, rant-filled routines, I thought I knew just how far Stewart Lee would go to make his audience feel uncomfortable. But he had managed to suck me in once more. Seemingly frustrated his new material wasn’t…
Self-billed ‘90s comedian’ and ‘41st best stand up ever’– Stewart Lee – returned to Salford’s Lyric Theatre on Saturday afternoon with A Room with a Stew. His distant, arrogant, passive-aggressive onstage persona culminated in him declaring to the audience, “no one is equipped to review me”. This is because no one can fully understand the…