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A Christmas Piece For Time Out - December 2011 Time Out - By Stewart Lee - December 1st, 2011
Like so many of my generation, I came to London in the mid-Seventies in search of sensation; the legendary Hope And Anchor pub rock scene of The Feelgoods and Ducks Deluxe; the then exotic delights of London’s take-away food community, Italian Pizza, Indian Curry, Kentucky chicken, and Chinese Chinese; the availability of cheap speed; and,…
A Piece On Child-Friendly Hotels - December 2011 Best Western Hotel Magazine - By Stewart Lee - December 1st, 2011
Half term comes round again, like the tolling of a graveyard bell. From the Midlands and the South, bowed and cowed, the hopeful parent horde crawls west in hatchbacks and people carriers, in search of a glimpse of the normality they enjoyed before they gave birth, in search a great gleaming myth. It flickers at…
Does comic ‘bravery’ go hand in hand with being offensive and stupid? - November 2011 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - November 13th, 2011
Ricky Gervais is an actor, writer, and director. He is brave. I am a standup. I am not brave. I only ever did one brave thing. In 2005, I agreed, while drunk, to jump off the tallest structure in New Zealand. New Zealanders’ high living standards mean they are driven to create artificial jeopardy, usually…
Mark Kermode Is Thor - October 2011 Rejected Piece - By Stewart Lee - October 1st, 2011
The comedian Simon Munnery suggests all autobiographies should be sub-titled “Failure Justified”. It’s funny because it’s true. All autobiographies are the acrid after-burps of dying mortals pleading for forgiveness. That said, in his new autobiography, See A Little Light, the American punk icon Bob Mould seems delighted with his downward spiral from front-man of the…
If Damon Albarn is serious about the occult, shouldn’t we call him Damien? - July 2011 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - July 10th, 2011
The 17th-century witchfinder general, Mary Hopkin, roamed Essex on top of a horse, burning witches and stuffing her bearded face with purloined olden-days tavern fayre – crusty bread rolls, steak and ale pies and banana splits. And yet, crawling from Colchester in a crackling cloud of dark energie, it appears the spawn of at least…
A comedy of comparison - June 2011 The Financial Times - By Stewart Lee - June 17th, 2011
Last Saturday’s Guardian had an interview with the young American comedy rapper Bo Burnham, who has accrued 650m hits for his homemade raps on YouTube and is making a funny rapping film with the director Judd Apatow. Last year the Fosters Comedy Awards praised the rapper for coming to the lowly Edinburgh Festival, rather than…