Showing 22 results for: Vegetable Stew
What we reported about Winterval - November 2010 Birmingham Post - By Jonathan Walker - November 12th, 2010
Comedian Stewart Lee has been on the radio pushing the familiar line that Birmingham City Council was accused of “banning” Christmas. As he correctly says in his interview, which you can hear for yourself here, “they called the celebrations as a whole Winterval and you were allowed to use the word Christmas, and you were…
Someone out there, please pick up a guitar and howl. - November 2010 The Guardian - By John Harris - November 4th, 2010
Public services are being laid to waste and benefits shorn, but popular culture’s voice of dissent remains strangely silent For those of us who still spend far too much time thinking about what used to be called popular culture, these are fretful times. For more than two years, politics has been in a state of…
Vegetable Stew, Leicester Square Theatre, London ★★★★ - November 2010 The Independent - By Julian Hall - November 2nd, 2010
Sharp show is souped up with jokes Stewart Lee’s book, How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian, released this summer, is a triumph of the art of footnotes, providing a DVD extra-style commentary over transcripts of some of his shows. As those who know Lee’s work would agree,…
Review – Stewart Lee, Vegetable Stew ★★★★ - November 2010 London Is Funny - By Ben Clover - November 1st, 2010
Ben Clover finds Stewart Lee’s Vegetable Stew a little more silly and a little less ranty than usual, but no less precise. Stewart Lee isn’t going to let something like gravity interfere with his act. Near the start of Vegetable Stew he says it isn’t a show with an arc like previous 60-minuters, but it’s…
Stewart Lee: Vegetable Stew review - October 2010 The Observer - By Stephanie Merritt - October 31st, 2010
Few contemporary comics divide opinion like Stewart Lee. For long-time fans and comedy obsessives, he is touched by genius, a maverick whose deep-rooted fascination with comedy lies in seeing how far he can stretch the boundaries of the form while still making an audience laugh. For those who prefer a more obvious strike rate of…