My futile attempt to sell satire to the Daily Mail - November 2017 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - November 26th, 2017

Pasting together doctored drawings of the Daily Mail’s long-running cartoon dog, Fred Basset, I’m creating the mother of all monetisable Christmas cash-in books. In the first of a typical three-frame strip, Fred defecates insolently on a pavement. Then Fred’s owner scoops up the excrement before – and this is the twist – popping it through…

Stewart Lee: The chilling truth about the ‘monster fatberg’ - October 2017 The Big Issue - By Stewart Lee - October 24th, 2017

Last month, I found myself wondering if it could ever be right to take a life, to end what appeared to be thousands of lives. It was after my annual reunion with two old college friends, at a newly opened hipster pie bar on the roof of a fashionable Dalston venue-cum-live-space, Pie In The Sky.…

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie - March 2016 RaM Album Club - March 11th, 2016

The RaM Music Club is a blog where each week they pick a guest who chooses a critically acclaimed album they’ve never listened to. The guest explains why they’ve never listened to it, laying out any potential prejudice in advance. i.e. “I’ve never liked the cut of Pink Floyd’s jib” or “Mark E Smith frightens…

Steve Wright Interview – 3rd March 2016 - March 2016 BBC Radio 2 - By Steve Wright - March 3rd, 2016

Speaking to Steve Wright on his BBC Radio 2 show to promote series 4 of Comedy Vehicle. PLAY / STOP | DOWNLOAD

So David Cameron can tell lies but standup comics can’t… - October 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - October 18th, 2015

On Monday, the content provider Boris Johnson positioned a typically triumphant column in the Telegraph. Having had a hail of multicoloured children’s swimming pool balls flung at him by suddenly energised disabled people in Manchester, the mischievous reaver explained to Telegraph readers that people throwing eggs and calling the Conservatives scum are the same as…

Now even Bake Off is being used to stir the pot on immigration - October 2015 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - October 11th, 2015

On Tuesday, the unflappable Conservative party leadership hopeful Theresa May opined that high levels of immigration make it “impossible to build a cohesive society”. To be fair, so do massive social inequality, a lack of affordable housing and systematic corporate tax avoidance on an industrial scale by the government’s friends and backers. Ka-pow! Take that…