Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, season 1 - February 2016 Anglonerd - By Jaime Pond - February 22nd, 2016

Stewart Lee, who Mark Watson describes as the compass of comedy, hosts a part standup comedy part sketch show called Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. Just the fact that this show has been on the air for three seasons, and what’s more has been picked up by Hulu in America, gives us hope that intelligent comedy consumers still…

‘Intelligent and absurd’ Stewart Lee, Warwick Arts Centre - February 2016 Coventry Telegraph - By Steve Adams - February 10th, 2016

Stewart Lee has been touring the appallingly-titled ‘Room With A Stew’ show so long his agents obviously thought it safe to slip in a second date at Warwick Arts Centre a year after the first, perhaps relying on the punters’ memories being as useless as their ability to grasp his convoluted brand of stand-up –…

Stewart Lee, Pavilion, Bournemouth - February 2016 Bournemouth Echo - By Sarah Cartlidge - February 5th, 2016

“I’d forgotten this was a radical town,” says Stewart Lee during one of this evening’s many semi-improvised asides. Touching on everything from losing out on a Bafta to Graham Norton, to hating yoghurt-drinking under-40s and orienteering with Napalm Death, Lee’s self-styled passive-aggressive approach may be very familiar, but it certainly hasn’t worn thin. His esoteric…

Cambridge, Corn Exchange - February 2016 The Prickle - February 3rd, 2016

Stewart Lee’s decision to do two nights of the same tour at the Cambridge Corn Exchange (the previous was May 2015) was a mistake.  A big mistake that he is quick to criticise and punish the audience for. Within the opening few minutes he has threatened to strike our faces with his microphone stand before…

Stewart Lee & The Short Story - February 2016 Dazzling The Gods - By Tom Vowler - February 3rd, 2016

Thanks muchly to the latest pledgers. Here’s a post on one of my favourite comedians and why he’s analogous to my favourite literary form. Last March I navigated Devon’s gloaming, bucolic lanes to watch comedy’s version of the short story: Stewart Lee. Why the facetious analogy? Perhaps because both enjoy a cult, minority status, one where…

Sociology lecture and urination jokes - February 2016 Cambs Times - By Kath Sansom - February 3rd, 2016

With all the allure of a teenage style temper tantrum Stewart Lee opens his Room With A Stew show at Cambridge Corn Exchange with the rant ‘Even the people who like me don’t know what they’re seeing,’ before launching into a routine of dry cynicism that teeters on the edge of inappropriate for almost two…