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The Artistry Of Standup Comedy - October 2015 Exeunt Magazine - October 1st, 2015
This is an Excerpt from ‘The Artistry of Stand Up Comedy’, here. Stand-up comedy is so very Brechtian. It is as if all comedians, consciously or unconsciously, exist at this pole of theatrical theory. The frame of comedy itself is a large, obviously unreal, artistic construction, where every element of life is turned on its…
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Square Theatre - September 2015 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - September 30th, 2015
‘No one’s equipped to review me,’ Stewart Lee asserts with his usual mix of certainty and superiority – guaranteeing this very same line will kick-start a dozen critiques… including this one. Because it’s true: there can’t be a line, a pause, a change of tone that Lee hasn’t considered in so much more depth than…
Stewart Lee and his UKIP routine - September 2015 Western Defence.org - By Gavin - September 25th, 2015
This morning at 8:10 Paul Nuttall of UKIP was interviewed on the Today Programme. Afterwards, Twitter was alive with left-wingers, most of whom seemed to work for “charities” or had names such as “Death to Capitalism”. Many were linking to a video by the stand-up comedian Stewart Lee: They obviously found this…
Stewart Lee at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - September 2015 Brighton Source - By Stuart Huggett - September 10th, 2015
He’s big enough to have sold out two nights at the Dome earlier this year but Stewart Lee’s appearance at Sticky Mike’s this evening is proof that Brighton’s finest comedy nights come thanks to Brian Gittins, of all people. From Harry Hill’s visit last September, through guest slots from Al Murray and Nick Helm and onwards (next…