Comedian Stewart Lee at Derby Assembly Rooms: why the old jokers are still the best - January 2014 Derby Telegraph - By Lynne Brighouse - January 26th, 2014

Stewart Lee explains to Lynne Brighouse why he believes that older comedians are the best and improve with age. COMEDIAN Stewart Lee is renowned for not shying away from controversial subjects or statements. His CV includes co-writing and co-directing the mock Broadway hit Jerry Springer: The Opera, which famously sparked off numerous protest demonstrations by…

Much A Stew About Nothing, Nottingham Playhouse - January 2014 Better Said Than Dead - By Peter McDonald - January 26th, 2014

Stewart Lee, 41st best stand-up comedian, came to Nottingham last Thursday to preview material from the forthcoming 3rd Comedy Vehicle series(1).  “I’m going to do, in the first half, about two half hour sections from two episodes of the new series and then in the, er, in the second half, about half an hour which will make…

Leeds Review - January 2014 Leeds Student.org - By Rosie Collington - January 14th, 2014

To his critics, Stewart Lee is little more than a champagne socialist: an audience-hating, Oxbridge-educated comedian who cracks cheap jokes at the expense of the establishment for an audience of similarly well-off lefties. To these accusations, Stewwy responds that we should all just be thankful he is no longer the “amphetamine communist” of his earlier…

Bristol Interview - January 2014 Intermission, Bristol - By Rob Sims & James Walmsley - January 13th, 2014

As an old scholar of Solihull School I was interested to find out that both you and Richard Hammond are alumni. Is the ‘hatred’ that you express towards him in your Top Gear skit based on any schoolyard feuds? I never knew R Hammond at school, as I explain in the piece. I thought about…

Stewart Lee: Much A-Stew About Nothing – Leicester Square Theatre ★★★★ - November 2013 The Telegraph - By Dominic Cavendish - November 20th, 2013

When I had the temerity to explain – in a Telegraph blog post – why I gave up on Stewart Lee’s latest live show at the first interval, I was met with a ferocious torrent of online indignation. On Twitter, for instance, Stuart Baxter got in touch to go “haha what a bell end!”, John…

Stewart Lee: Comedy messiah - June 2011 Chortle - By Hazel Humphreys - June 2nd, 2011

All comedy is essentially divisive. If jokes have an essential direction and attitude, there’s always going to be someone who’s not happy with the way a joke is going and how it’s getting there. For example, I cite the scientific research conducted by Channel 4, which found that 99.99997 per cent of the human race…