Review: Stewart Lee, A Room With A Stew – The Shed, Brawby - June 2015 York Mix - By Pete Markham - June 8th, 2015

Watching your audience numbers shrink from 1,800 to 70 in the space of just one day might raise the spectre of a Spinal Tap-style career tailspin. But that wasn’t the case for Stewart Lee, as he moved on from his show at the Barbican on Saturday night to his second York area sell-out of the…

Review: Two Rooms With A Stew - June 2015 York Press - By Maxine Gordon & Charles Hutchinson - June 8th, 2015

Stewart Lee, A Room With A Stew, York Barbican, Saturday NOT everyone gets Stewart Lee. Famously, Dominic Cavendish, the theatre critic of the Daily Telegraph, walked out of one of his gigs, lambasting Lee for insulting his audience and saying: “If Lee had a shred of insight into the working lives of others, he’d realise…

Stand-up masterclass at Newcastle City Hall - June 2015 Newcastle Chronicle - By Helen Dalby - June 5th, 2015

“Nobody is equipped to review me,” says Stewart Lee towards the end of his two-hour set at Newcastle City Hall. He means intellectually and, of course, he’s joking – but I’m inclined to agree with him. This is a stand-up so skilled in deconstructing the art form he’s performing while performing it – and crucially,…

A Room With A Stew Review - June 2015 Huffington Post - By Roger Crow - June 3rd, 2015

It’s 4pm. I leave work and walk a mile to the station, spend an hour on the world’s most uncomfortable train to Bradford to see A Room With A Stew – the latest gig for edgy, acclaimed comedian Stewart Lee. One second in and I’m already winning compared to two years ago when my plan…

A Room with a Stew: The Philharmonic Liverpool - June 2015 Get Into This - By Del Pike - June 3rd, 2015

When Stewart Lee tells his audience towards the end of his show that he is the comic that cannot be reviewed, he may have a point. It might be a cliché to say that he is the stand up comedian for people who don’t like stand up comedians, but in truth I’m not a stand…

Stewart Lee’s ‘A Room with a Stew’ at Colston Hall ★★★★ - May 2015 Epigram.org.uk - By Liam Marchant - May 28th, 2015

Having spent most of his career performing in low-key art centres around the country, Stewart Lee now has the misfortune of enjoying relative commercial success. As he acknowledges at the beginning of ‘A Room with a Stew’, Colston Hall is packed out with two very different audiences for his show. There are the liberal middle…