Stewart Lee / Burgers Offer NEWS - January 2020 January 25th, 2020

Exciting Nottingham Burger News! Nottingham Playhouse has instigated a burger special offer at my personal request, and is the only venue on the tour to agree to my demand for “a belly full of laughs the right way” to be available on all dates. Please make sure you take advantage of this offer as I…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee FEB 2020 - January 2020 January 19th, 2020

“Ghastly, puritanical, po-faced, sanctimonious, finger-wagging, Woke-Witchfinder-in-Chief” Toby Young, Twitter “Sphincter-poppingly angry, totally unamusing and uninsightful, and painfully, excruciatingly right-on. A bitter, politically correct member of the Remain-voting liberal elite. The type of comedy which is not designed to provoke laughter so much as solemn head-nodding and applause at the politically correct sentiment.” James Delingpole, Steve…

Tornado / Snowflake review – Britain’s finest comedian in action - January 2020 Reaction.Life - By Ben Kelly - January 11th, 2020

In the last decade, Stewart Lee has been at the peak of his powers. Increasingly over this time he has channelled his comedy through a carefully constructed onstage persona, a parody of himself. The embittered, envious comic going through mid-life crisis, brimming with self-regard, obsessed with his own status and resentful and contemptuous of his…

Ricky Gervais and Phoebe Waller-Bridge get it in the neck ★★★★★ - January 2020 i News - By Veronica Lee - January 3rd, 2020

Stewart Lee is on marvellous form with this double header. The first hour, Tornado, opens with Lee reading out the wrong blurb that a previous show of his, Comedy Vehicle, was given on Netflix. It actually describes the B-movie Sharknado, in which sharks fall from the sky. The joke is teased out through the hour,…

MX2019 & HNY2020 TO ALL FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee - December 2019 December 31st, 2019

“If you had to kill Stewart Lee how would you do it? Stab his eyes out? Shotgun to the knees? Brain with heavy object?” Xpijonipsy, Twitter, 16/10/19, since removed 1) SNOWFLAKE/TORNAD0 – LIVE (London & Touring) I THINK ALL LONDON DATES ARE NOW SOLD OUT BUT… THERE WILL BE SUPPLEMENTARY DATES AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL…

The best comedy shows of 2019 - December 2019 Evening Standard - By Zoe Paskett - December 16th, 2019

Stewart Lee: Tornado/Snowflake “This is Lee the clever crowdpleaser,” said Bruce Dessau in his review. Stewart Lee delivered two shows in one: Tornado, which stemmed from a Netflix listing error that confused his stand-up special with a shark Armageddon movie, and Snowflake, which plunges into the world of political correctness. Among teasing of Ricky Gervais…