It’s Got Bells On - December 2011 BBC Radio 2's Dance Season - December 6th, 2011

I don’t remember when I saw my first Morris dance. I think it was sometime in the early Seventies. My Mum was working, I wasn’t yet at school, and I spent a lot of time with my grand-dad. He’d been, or maybe was still, a rep for Colman’s, the Norfolk based mustard company, who had…

SLEEVE NOTES FOR A FLYING NUN RECORDS SAMPLER, NOV 2011 - November 2011 Flying Nun Sampler - By Stewart Lee - November 1st, 2011

The Eighties is still regarded as something of a wasteland for rock, the first period in which the relentless forward motion that had propelled white boy guitar music from rock and roll, through acid rock and into punk, had run out of steam in a mess of hair metal and anthemic stadium-sized post-punk derivatives. The…

Heard the one about the right-on comics who HATE the funniest man in Britain? - July 2011 The Daily Mail - By Jan Moir - July 19th, 2011

This article has since been removed from the Daily Mail’s own website. Download a PDF of the article here. View Stewart’s riposte to the article, here.

Stewart Lee: What I really think about Michael McIntyre - July 2011 Chortle - July 19th, 2011

On Sunday, at 2.26 in the afternoon, a man claiming to be the transport correspondent of the Daily Telegraph rang me up asking me why I had described Michael McIntyre as ‘spoon-feeding his audience warm diarrhoea’. I hung up, assuming it was some weird prank call, like the people who ring me at 3am asking…

MY PERFECT PUB - May 2011 Shortlist Magazine - By Stewart Lee - May 12th, 2011

There Are No Comedy Gods - September 2010 Dodgem Logic - By Stewart Lee - September 1st, 2010

This is the story of a spontaneous comment that got out of hand, and grew, momentarily confusing an accommodating Japanese performance art group, and, ultimately, inconveniencing a corporate arts sponsor. But it’s also a story about how we value creativity. Is Art about books sold, tickets bought, and units shifted, pleasing the largest possible number…