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Q & A With The List - August 2022 The List - By Brian Donaldson - August 3rd, 2022
Comedy provocateur Stewart Lee is preparing not one but two Fringe shows this August. He takes time out from all that to consider our intense Q&A which leaves him pondering about his days as an Army Cadet and wondering about otters, parrots and Snoop Dogg. Who would you like to see playing you in the…
Snowflake/Tornado at Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, 29 June-3 July 2022 - July 2022 Abundant Art - By Amy Melling - July 7th, 2022
The show is a double bill of two, new, sixty-minute sets – weirdly, delivered in the opposite order to the title. Tornado is centered around Netflix incorrectly attributing the synopsis of Sharknado to Lee’s series Comedy Vehicle. The first half is funny and well paced, it sees bits on mainstream comedians who haven’t had their…
Comedy with class courtesy of Stewart Lee at the Tivoli - June 2022 Aberdeen Press & Journal - By Jamie WIlde - June 23rd, 2022
Stewart Lee’s new stand-up show brimmed with the unapologetic, politically skewed charm that the comedian has built his career upon. Split into a double-bill of two hour-long halves, Snowflake/Tornado revolved around two different subjects, but both interlinked well in what was a cohesive performance. The English stand-up performer, writer and director has received big praise…
“Where Does He Go From Here?” - March 2022 Impact Nottingham - By Louis Griffin - March 30th, 2022
Stewart Lee is probably the most influential comic of the last 30 years. This a fact not lost on him, or indeed his audience, as he repeatedly reminds us during Tornado, the first half of his latest show. He makes The Times’ coronation of him as “the world’s greatest living stand-up” a centrepiece of the…
Stewart Lee: Snowflake/Tornado - March 2022 The List - By Jay Richardson - March 22nd, 2022
Netflix’s arrival has reinforced the notion of a stand-up hierarchy, while complicating the perennially wretched subjects of taste and offence. Watching any comic on a subscription service implies consent to hear certain material. Yet the streaming juggernaut’s power and reach means any targets of alleged ‘punching down’ (as in Jimmy Carr’s recent gypsy Holocaust gag)…