We meet at the bus stop. The No.73 has dropped Stewart Lee off from Stoke Newington, the steadily-gentrifying corner of North London whose social characteristics are increasingly providing material for his comedy. A green woollen hat pushing his famous quiff down into a tousled forelock, Stewart Lee the human being looks a lot like ‘Stewart…
“No one is equipped to review me,” says Lee, beginning the fourth round of his standup series. He’s joking. Kind of. By now, he’s basically Oscar Wilde: it’s practically impossible to divine any meaning from his increasingly complex pose. Lee says he adopts a snobbish persona to make people “laugh in spite of me, not…
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…
SLCV Series 4 This starts on BBC2 on March 3rd at 10pm for 6 weeks. It is like the 3rd series but more so. BBC page for the series with clips & links to iPlayer episodes (after broadcast) is here. Global Globules with Baconface FROM THIS WEDNESDAY 2ND MARCH. The barely present cult Canadian stand-up…