Stewart Lee: Leicester Comedy Festival review - February 2015 Leicester Mercury - By Ian Griffin - February 16th, 2015

For a few seconds, I genuinely thought he was having a breakdown. After two decades of lapping up his edgy, rant-filled routines, I thought I knew just how far Stewart Lee would go to make his audience feel uncomfortable. But he had managed to suck me in once more. Seemingly frustrated his new material wasn’t…

Lyric Theatre, Lowry complex - February 2015 The Mancunion - By Tom Learmouth - February 16th, 2015

Self-billed ‘90s comedian’ and ‘41st best stand up ever’– Stewart Lee – returned to Salford’s Lyric Theatre on Saturday afternoon with A Room with a Stew. His distant, arrogant, passive-aggressive onstage persona culminated in him declaring to the audience, “no one is equipped to review me”. This is because no one can fully understand the…

Jazz Comedian - February 2015 AndrewHickey.info - By Andrew Hickey - February 15th, 2015

They say you sit in seat D4 of the Lyric Theatre in the Lowry Centre listening to a performance of My Favorite Things at a comedy show twice in your career… The first time was a month ago, when I and eight friends (yes, I do have eight friends; admittedly one of them was my…

Review: Stewart Lee @ The Lowry Theatre, Salford - February 2015 Manchester Evening News - By Gareth Tidman - February 14th, 2015

You must know the Stewart Lee story by now. It’s the tale of the high brow comedian who broke through in the 1990’s only to find himself pushed to the margins as stand up went primetime. But Lee became the comeback kid who eventually landed his own BBC series after honing his stand up talents…

Stewart Lee: A Room With A Stew – The Lowry, Salford - February 2015 The Public Reviews - By Luke Walker - February 13th, 2015

“Trust me – you can laugh at this joke. I’ve worked it all out,” stalwart comedian Stewart Lee informs us mid way through his new show, A Room With A Stew. Of course, he is right. Stewart Lee’s punishing touring schedule (pretty much a whole year with this show – Edinburgh excepted) arrives at the…

The Manchester Review Stewart Lee, The Lowry - February 2015 The Manchester Review - By Peter Wild - February 13th, 2015

John Coltrane performing ‘My favourite things’ (his take on The Sound of Music classic), is not one of my favourite things. John Coltrane performing the full 13 minute and 47 second version of ‘My favourite things’ is very definitely not one of my favourite things. John Coltrane’s 13 minute 47 second version of ‘My favourite…