Comic’s Flush With Delight At His Own Show - March 2009 The Daily Record - March 14th, 2009

Thinking person’s stand-up Stewart Lee has been in the wilderness for years in terms of his TV career and it seems he is as surprised as anyone at the BBC that he has suddenly been restored to the box in his own series. After trying out material for a projected series last year while performing…

The barnacle of British comedy - March 2009 The Guardian - By Leeanne Stewart - March 14th, 2009

On Monday, the grey haired comedian Stewart Lee returns to our screens, after a 10-year absence, as the titular human face of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. His reappearance on television is something of a surprise. There are many more talented has-beens still out there, and in Sunshine On Putty, the journalist Ben Thompson’s history of…

The Diary: Stewart Lee - March 2009 Financial Times - By Stewart Lee - March 14th, 2009

Saturday: It is just under a week until my TV series Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle starts on BBC2. I’ve been a stand-up comedian for 20 years, and it’s the first TV I’ve done for more than a decade. But filming is all over now, so I take my two-year-old son out for the day. First…

Stewart Lee returns in ‘Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle’ - March 2009 Time Out - By Tim Out - March 12th, 2009

Since he was last on TV, Stewart Lee has caused controversy with ‘Jerry Springer: the Opera’ and racked up a string of Edinburgh Fringe successes, so why is the BBC’s ‘Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle’ ‘pregnant with lack of meaning’ asks comedy critic Tim Out His energy-sapping manifestation on Jimmy Carr’s ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’…

Taking a stand pays off for Stewart Lee - March 2009 The Metro - By David Baldwin - March 11th, 2009

Stewart Lee has had something of a tumultuous relationship with television. Widely regarded as one of this country’s riskiest and most insightful stand-up comedians, the last time Lee fronted a TV show of any kind was ten years ago, when he appeared with Richard Herring in BBC2 show This Morning With Richard Not Judy. Four…

Stewart Lee interview: Putting his neck on the line - March 2009 Scotland On Sunday - By Jonathan Trew - March 1st, 2009

THE LAST time a show penned by the veteran stand-up comic Stewart Lee was broadcast by the BBC, it was no laughing matter. The channel’s executives received death threats and one of them was placed under police protection. That was in 2005 when Jerry Springer The Opera, co-written by Lee, was aired on BBC2. Objecting…