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Stewart Lee is the Stewart Lee of comedy.
The Morning Star
I keep being told what a genius Stewart Lee. But every time I watch any of his work he just comes across to me as a bit of a sanctimonious prick.
Sam Roony, guardian.co.uk
Stewart Lee basically massages the prejudices of Guardian readers to make them feel better about themselves.
Unecom, Guardian.co.uk
Stewart Lee does come across as a preachy, sanctimonious berk an is actually quite patronising to the audience
Thenewnumbertwo, Guardian.co.uk
My Dad is a better comedian than Stewart Lee. Lee's comedy is based on slating other people, most notably sardonic talents like Chris Moyles and Jeremy Clarkson, both of whom, incidentally, are immeasurably funnier than Lee. Lee elevates his sense of self with his own callous brand of intellectual elitism,
Sally McIlhone, channelhopping.onthebox.com
Stewart Lee is a borderline alcoholic comedian, who aggressively taunts and down right insults society.
Chong Nhu, martialartsplanet.com
Whilst Michael MacIntyre is a tit at least he doesn't Repeat the same unfunny line, repeat the same unfunny line, repeat the same unfunny line, repeat the same unfuny line, even though it remains unfunny with the repetition and leave enormous spaces between his words to emphasize just how laden with gravitas his Comedy actually is instead of admitting that it is just a good way of padding twenty minutes of material out to an hour and a half.
Lennie Law, wordmagazine.com
No doubt he's a very clever comedian. Very technically adept and, more often than not, really funny. But I do dislike the way that he has assigned himself the role of Comedian in chief and conscience/ gatekeeper of 'Alternative Comedy'. His book is at once fabulously illuminating and massively smug. I can't tolerate all the condescending looking down their noses at the audience that he and his minions seem to partake in.
Paddy H, wordmagazine.com
He's a self-impressed, patronising, up-his-own arse, condescending twat.
Vagabond, b3ta.com
Stewart Lee is bigoted unfunny dick.
Andy Bolton, twitter
Stewart Lee: You are not funny. Almost a Dane Cook level of NOT funny.
May Pescante, Twitter
Stewart Lee is? the pied-piper of the pseudo-intellectuals,
ChrisWales22, youtube
Probably the worst comedian performance I've ever seen. An old man talking about what he ate for dinner the last week would have been equally giving.
Tom Jones, whoateallthepies
You know who I can't stand? Stewart Lee!
Hammondette, twitter
Have never heard of Stewart Lee before now. If I never hear of him again it will be too soon! The one thing he is not, is a comedian.
David Spark, Leeds, Dailymail.co.uk
Stewart Lee is crap I'm afraid.
Balboa, Guardian.co.uk
an evil, evil man and not in the slightest bit funny
Ronnie, Nottingham, Dailymail.co.uk
What a SICK man Stewart Lee is. My condolences to his family and friends.
Sharon, Shoreham, Dailymail.co.uk
Stewart Lee should jump in his 'comedy vehicle' and drive it off a very high cliff. Whoever this youth is, he sounds about as funny as three weeks of really bad weather!
Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
it's a disgrace that someone like this no talent comedian can say something like this and not be arrested. surely there should be a ban on the arts to some degree?
danny, London, Dailymail.co.uk
He's a comedian who I have to say I have never heard of and who doesn't appear to have made much of a name for himself by being a "funnyman" with jokes like that are we really suprised ??
Julie, Highland, Dailymail.co.uk
Try looking up the word comedian in a dictionary. Stewart Lee... comedian? Not two words I would use in the same sentence!
Rachael, Peterborough, Dailymail.co.uk
I think Stewart Lee has just one problem as a comedian, for all his faux intellectual affectations and his penchant for student union politics, he just isnt funny. i tried hard to like it but it all has a whiff of the emporers new clothes. for me he has just about managing to maintain his status to a level where you actually remember who he is since that awful lee and herring thing. I guess that as fringe acts/celebs, who struggle to capture the audience they are clearly desperate for, begin to fade, their act has to become more shocking to maintain their profile, rather than funny.
Matt, York, Daily Mail.co.uk
a two bob unfunny 'comedian' still trying to make it at the Edinburgh festival...
English Cad, Cad Towers, Dailymail.co.uk
This guy's as amusing as toothache!
Keith, Switzerland, Dailymail.co.uk
If that's the state of British comedy today then come back Bernard Manning all is forgiven!
Andrew Hall, Bradford, Dailymail.co.uk
I must admit I have heard of Mr Lee, having seem two of his televised "shows". However, it seems that he is now definitely not worth bothering about. Bye bye loser.
Harry, Rugby, Dailymail.co.uk
Absolutely the saddest so called comedian I have ever heard. Trash is the only word I can think of this person. Disgusting!!! C
arla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
Please Mr Lee do humanity a favor and scuttle back under your rock
Charles, North Carolina, Dailymail.co.uk
i think stewart lee should be banned from actually being a so called "comedian".
Sophie, Spalding, Dailymail.co.uk
a sneering tosser
Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
Stewart is a self deluded person, who looks into a mirror and sees great sadness What a loser he is then. He should grow up and shut up. Hes got many problems I feel and should seek help ! If he cant grow up maybe he should go a way. Because hes a posh boy he cant get a way with anything, but hes just spolit brat by the look at it.
Mr Cool, Wales, Dailymail.co.uk
Stewart Lee is a sick, unfunny excuse of a man...
Rusty,Surrey, Dailymail.co.uk
What a wicked viscious man this Stewart is (never actually heard of him). There really are some nasty people posing as entertainers.
Hilary, Staffs, Dailymail.co.uk
in my opinion Stewart Lee is a very dangerous man who needs to be locked away in a strait jacket in a psychiatric hospital.
Expat, Australia, Dailymail.co.uk
Classic left wing socialist comedian. If they don't approve of you and you don't conform to their world view they'd rather put you up against a wall (a la Che Guevara). I hate this comedian. He's about 25 years out of date and is no doubt coming to the fore just as another failed Labour government is about to be kicked into the political wilderness for a generation.
Doug, Aberdeen, Dailymail.co.uk
What a sad fat individual, if as a self proclaimed comedian if you can't be funny which is after all a basic requirement, time to do something else.
Julia, Ilkley, Dailymail.co.uk
I saw Stewart Lee live. He was as funny as cancer. Thinks he's clever, he's dreadful. A comedian from the 80's who has remained there.
Lynn, Carlisle, Dailymail.co.uk
Bitter fat unfunny comedian
Jen, Vancouver, dailymail.co.uk
His "acclaimed" show is so bad that it could case peoples hearts to stop through utter dispair! Adam, Dorset, Dailymail.co.uk
Adam, Dorset, Dailymail.co.uk
I wish that he would show more evidence of the fact that he read English at Saint Edmond's Hall Oxford. The evidence of this has been carefully sifted out along with his Shropshire accent as he has adopted both the speech and cognitive vocabulary and conventions which are the default position of the speakers of Estuary English with whom he presumably spends his days. ?During the Fist OF Fun days he made a darkly glamorous, if static, foil to the far more comedically gifted Richard Herring, but that was then, the glamour has long departed ( welcome to the club Mr Lee ), and he does not seem to have gained anything in the way of skill from the period working alongside his erstwhile partner.
Greysimon1, bbc.co.uk
a slightly embarrassing 40+ year old man ranting like a teenage student activist whilst labouring "jokes" and being, what seems, almost deliberately unfunny
Tony Cowards, comedy.co.uk
Its just another over-educated, middle class man getting pointlessly angry about a lot of things that aren't very important in the great scheme of things....'
Tristran Fabriana, bbc.co.uk
He's another of those smug incompetents who are said by the 'in-crowd' to be cool. He appears to have serious life issues and he seems to think that foisting his emotional turmoil onto audiences is somehow 'art'. Bollocks.
Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
Lee has been ploughing the same 6th Form/Student Union seam of predictable and not really edgey comedy since the early 90s.
Frank Frenz, Guardian.co.uk
I was at least expecting a few jokes. Sorry to say they don't exist. He takes about 5 or so good concepts and plays them all out over far too long a time so by the end of each segment you don't really care whether there is a point to the piece. The delivery is too dead pan to make it interesting. Avoid at all costs, please don't encourage the man.
P Mishkin, Amazon.co.uk
Stewart Lee is the worst comedian around (if you can class him as a comedian). He is a smug, arrogant man who thinks he is funny (he isn't!) and is not one for the working-class people. Why do you do this rubbish?!
Y McLaughlin, Amazon.co.uk
A poor man's Bill Hicks… Sorry Stew, Bill was already doing the "Comedy of Hate" when you were fumbling around doing student-targetted humour.
Potace, Amazon.co.uk
"I was able to predict his line on any subject with completely accuracy to the lady of the house."
Greysimon1, bbc.co.uk
He is NOT funny... In what way is this man a comedian?
Mr Angry, bbc.co.uk
Well, he came 11th in the Greatest Stand Ups of All Time poll shown on Ch4 the other month (yes I know it's a fiddle - but still). If you went out in the street and asked a hundred people about him you'd be hard pressed to find a handful who'd even heard of the miserable coconut. Never mind think he was funny. I saw him on an old 8 out of 10 Cats repeat the other day. He hardly made a contribution, just sitting there partly looking out of his depth and embarrassed to be there exposed as talentless and partly with a smug look on his fat ugly mug. The only few people who even claim to rate him are the usual crowd who think he may in some way be "clever" and so by claiming to like the unfunny twonk somehow raises their own "status".
Voiceofreason, forum.football.co.uk
Incredibly unfunny in a way that only Lenny Henry can replicate.. Lee's attempt to appear intellectual betrays the fact that it is actually pretty lightweight comedy, dressed up with some long(ish) words, and playground insults. He was a witless pseudo-intellectual snob 10 years ago and he still is. At least he has got rid of the floppy fringe.
Matt, tvguide.co.uk
Typically unfunny left-wing 'comedian' who thinks he's more clever than he really is, spouting a diatribe to Guardian reading Psuedo-intellectuals, who think they are more clever than they really are!.
Yorkie, tvguide.co.uk
Worst comedian ever (along side David Baddiel). Saw him live once, and had to get a refund. He lacks one ingredient of comedy - he's not funny.
Good Evans, tvguide.co.uk
The biggest pile of crap I have ever seen! Boring and unfunny. Childish. Made an absolute fool of himself.
Lianne, Chortle.co.uk
his smug attitude and the fact that he comes accross like a grade A bellend makes him unwatchable for me.
Joycey33, readytogo.net
Come back Mr Lee when you have achieved 1% of what Ben Elton has achieved.
Redandwhiterob, readytogo.net
miserable fecker with an annoying delivery
blythy, readytogo.net
One man I would love to beat with a shit covered cricket bat.
Joycey, readytogo.net
Lee is just a fat Rob Newman without the melancholy surrealism.
Shatterface, liberalconspiracy.org
Stewart Lee isnt even funny. He's disgusting and i hope they ban him from performing. Stewart Lee is a pathetic little man. the only thing funny about him, is his looks.
Hammondx3, richardhammond.net
a hate filled little man
Willdaq, finalgear.com
a small, sad man
FBC, finalgear.com
A heckler could destroy his entire act simply by shouting "we get the fucking picture" from the back of the room in the first 5 minutes.
Dirtbox, eurogamer.com
im sorry stewart lee fans but his material is lazy, repitive, dirivative and aimed squarely at the sychophants
dufftownallan, eurogamer.com
I can't stand his smuggy smug bastard smugface.
PES Fanboy, eurogamer.com
I've gigged with him and he's an arrogant twat.
Japaneseboy, chortle.com
Lee is preaching to a gradually decreasing audience of weak sycophants who prefer their need for sneering political/moral guidance, wrapped up and disguised as comedy. Meanwhile the rest of us persue and enjoy the search for genuine comedy and real laughs.....
Roy, Chortle.com
Smug, unberable ranty bollocks
Jah Lion, Guardian.co.uk
hes a pile of crap.not funny whatever
skype29, skyvu.com
Lee is, without doubt, a charm free vacuum who has bathed in a bath of shit. Emotionally unintelligent and intellectually retarded, he offers up a form of comedy that is both visually appalling and aurally disingenuos. A twat in other words. Top marks to him for foisting this crap and people buying it.
Cameron Borland, Offthetelly.com
this guy is a twat, he is not funny at all
jaabui, bagito.com
this guy is crap
browo010, bagito.com
Stuart Lee is not funny! and thats a problem if you're suppossed to be a comedian. Jesus is Lord philippians 2:11 Burn in Hell Stuart Lee.
Christian1truefaith, bagito.com
Stewart Lee is one unfunny, smug, public school Tarquin.
Parvulesco, Guardian.co.uk
his overwrought language, overthought logic and complete lack of comedic timing just leaves me scratching my head as to what those in the audience at his shows are laughing at. he reaches for the offhand insights bill hicks' schtick used to stumble through but falls woefully short..
cocainemidget, Guardian.co.uk
I think he's a smug arrogant bighead whose main function is slagging off others, whilst surrounded mainly by sycophants who seem to have fallen masochistically under his subtle bullying "I'm cleverer than you" style. The laughs per minute are very few and far between. Lecturer? Sociologist? - Maybe. Proper comic - nah.
Roy, Chortle.co.uk
After over 35 years of being a professional comic you learn to weigh people up pretty good, and as far as I'm concerned the man is struggling to get over himself and positively exudes contempt for everybody but himself, which btw he can barely conceal - from me anyway - even if some more naive others don't see it.
Roy, Chortle.co.uk
If a man's style, presentation or material is so indeterminate that several interpretations can be taken - especially negative ones, then he is a fool for not removing all doubt, thus not allowing himself to be unecessarily, and perhaps possibly wrongly, judged either a genius (good) or merely a big head (not good).
Roy, Chortle.co.uk
What can he actually DO? All he does is stand on the sidelines being "clever" and knocking others like some showbiz Jeremy Paxman equivalent (only with even less personality).Does he ever do anything funny without it being at somebody else's expense? A good comic should have empathy and sympathy with an audience, should be "vulnerable" or self depreciating at the same time as being confident (not easy). They should be very human and not make an audience feel inferior in any way. Bob Monkhouse achieved all this and at the same time was far cleverer and funnier than the soulless cold fish Lee could ever hope to be.
Roy, Chortle.co.uk
didn't laugh once and his smugness irritates the fuck out of me.
Foo, urban75.net
Stewart Lee has never depreciated himself - in fact, with his gradual weight gain, I would describe him as stubbornly augmentative.
Roy, Chortle.co.uk
He stands on the sidelines and critises/takes the piss out of other artists while contributing very little himself - that is nothing to do with who he chooses to work with. As for Armando Ianucci, Chris Morris, Simon Munnery, Miles Jupp - I've never heard of any of them - could it be that he has "got them on board" because of their desire for TV exposure and of course the fees or is that just cynical old me? I am not denying that he is a very clever man - but so is Stephen Hawking but I wouldn't expect many laughs there either.
Roy, Chortle.co.uk
He comes across as the oldest sneering student in the room everytime I see him.
Graham Casey, Chortle.co.ukz
He sounds like Pam Ayres grandson,without her intellect.I'm sorry but this is self indulgent tedious piffle,allowed only because this 'worzelette' has been to oxford.Something funny please. More haha and less ooh ahh!
Kevin1M, Chortle.co.uk
Whispering, piggy eyed, smug, arrogant, arty farty twat. All those that like him come on - be honest - would your mum, dad, uncles, brothers and sisters, gran and most of your mates and work colleagues laugh at him? - would they fuck and you know it. At my age and being in business I know and meet hundreds of people from all walks of life, many of them young as well as old, so I conducted a little survey and roughly half had never even heard of him and of those that had, most didn't think he was funny. Mind you to be fair, hardly any of those asked were spotty, right on, supercool dudes/students....
Roy, Chortle.co.uk
Stewart Lee's jokes consist of taking a moderately funny idea and then spending 25 minutes slowly and repetitively beating it to death with a shovel.
Tim J, liberalconspiracy.org
Stewart Lee: speaks slowly, acts smarmy and looks confused
Speakslowly, drownedinsound.com
So I tried to watch this last night. After about 5 minutes I couldn't bear any more. ? Tell a joke, you twat.
Sadpunk, drownedinsound.com
He stank. I've never seen a moronic idiot trying to tell jokes in my life. What a fuck. The man could barely stand up never mind tell a decent story. Everyone was laughing at him, and I hated his guts.
Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
Stuart 'man of the people' Lee is nothing but a fringe alternative comedy act who wouldn't stand a chance at a real comedy club like Jongleurs.
Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe.com.
Genuinely can't stand him, he comes across as the sort that thinks that live comedy should just be kept to smoky art student union clubs and that any comedian that plays in arenas is destroying the so called "artistic integrity" of stand up when we all know stand-up comedy is not an art form it's a form of live entertainment. P.S. Just because your TV show is terrible doesn't mean you have to rip into Russell Howard and 'that Roadshow''.
Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
Not one joke delivered. Absolutely the worst comedian I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Don't waste your money or time. Only comedian that I have ever thought of walking out on.
Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
An abysmal 'comedian'. He's unable to pick up Brownie points for being funny and so instead flaunts his politically correct views to try to get audiences' and critics' sympathy. While this works to keep him a cult following of der brains who enjoy playing the game of 'I'm holier than thou', it's the reason while he'll never be mainstream (you have to be funny to do that) and why critics who like him always have to apologise for his contributions to high profile charity gigs in venues when the punters don't laugh. Garbage.
Chez, Chortle.com
The dullness of his jokes is only matched by his bitterness towards other comedians and half the world around him. He seems to spend hours on stage pretending that he 'gets something' nobody else has. I just wish he'd get a sense of humour. Tripe.
Gabrielle, Chortle.com
The worst stand-up I have ever seen. A man who seems to aim his set at angry, atheist comic book, nerd Morrissey fans and if you don't find him funny you're obviously an idiot. As smug and contemptible as Richard Herring.
Graham Simmons, Chortle.com
He talks only about commonplace things, with a really slow pace. He made me smile. That's it! A disappointment.
Etienne, Chortle.com
3rd rate comedian and politically correct maggot –
Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
See that stupid look on his face....you just know he would have that exact same facial expression if he was getting the kicking of his life.
Neva2busy, dont-start-me-off.com
What an unfunny, faux tortured intellectual cunt he is. The only thing worse than him are the humorless liberals who pretend to find him funny.
Ricardo , dont-start-me-off.com
Shit-haired cunt who resides at the very apex of all that is absolute, patience-testing wank. Repeating the same thing a hundred times in a monotone is NOT comedy, Stewart, now cunt off.
Jimmy Vespa , dont-start-me-off.com
"One of the most respected performers on the circuit." Yes, this is always a euphemism for "he's fucking useless, but we don't want to tell him." Ricardo,
dont-start-me-off.com
I had to stop watching that at 45 seconds. Really couldn't listen to that monotone voice anymore.
Monkey, dont-start-me-off.com
Jealous that your comedy career didn't go anywhere Lee?
Anonymous, dont-start-me-off.com
There's only so much antipathy or disdain an audience can stomach."
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
Lee is supposed to be a ground-breaking comedian and writer, but I found little entertainment value in his material.?It was not funny. It was a sad and deliberate attempt to see how far he could go. This was ultimate sick humour, and if anyone thought it funny, they must be sick as well.
Brighton Argus
"Watching Stewart Lee in action these days is like standing on the edge of a frozen lake and seeing a man half-submerged in the perishing ice. You throw him a rope - but he hurls it back. You didn't throw it correctly, he advises. And anyway, he was fine as he was, until you ruined it all. Didn't you know that sub-zero was his natural habitat?"
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
Fine to make jokes about Jeremy Clarkson but only if you're funnier than he is. Lee's humour is all about repetition and digression, but even brilliant comedians need material.
Herald Scotland.
"Lee makes Kim Jong II look comparatively relaxed. Maybe it's time to lighten up a little?
Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
About as startling as an accountant reading the Financial Times
Liverpool Daily Post
The worst comedian in Britain, as funny as bubonic plague
Fergus Shanahan, The Sun
His whole tone is one of complete, smug condescension
Birmingham Sunday Mercury
Stewart Lee (who he?).....is a relatively unknown so called comedian I've never heard of, although with his style of comedy I question as to if he'll ever achieve greater 'stardom' than he has to date! Apart from Paul Merton and Julian Clary I admit to disliking contemporary comedians as I see no reason for swearing and tasteless patter on stage, I much prefer comedians who make audiences laugh because they are funny men (or women)! I would have enjoyed watching audience response to many of todays 'comedy kings' should they have played some of the northern cabaret clubs of the 60's and early seventies......walking off to the sound of your own boots wouldn't have been in it! Tasteless 'comedy' a la Stewart Lee style leaves him in the gutter alongside the likes of Jonathan Ross and and the long-haired scruffy one he got into trouble with!
Mal, Norfolk, Dailymail.co.uk
Stewart Lee is a cunt. I've always thought this and every utterance from his boring little sphincter of a mouth just proves it more and more...
Al, Urban75.com
He rambles on and on to a meaningless 'punchline' with a consistent smug look on his face and a constant thinly veiled attempt to look ironically cool. I detest him.
Darksoldier, f2010.com
I think Stewart Lee is a cunt. He really is not funny. I've seen him live and the dead pan got old after about 5 minutes.
Lee, wordsfromreuben.com
Stewart Lee is shit. He's like a small child in the way that he thinks if he tells you the same joke over and over it will become funny.
Peter G, b3ta.com
He had about 5 jokes which he made last 1 and a half hours. I've never been closer to walking out of a gig and I closed my eyes at one point I was so bored.
AMD, Chortle.com
Stewart Lee is a despicable Student Union throwback and the idea that anyone would look to him for material is horrifying indeed. I saw him live not too long ago and he still had faded black jeans, DM shoes and that stupid Morrissey quiff like the superannuated indie kid he is.
I am nice, Guardian.co.uk
He's the comedian people say they like, just to appear cool and above the rest of us proles. I'm sure Mr Lee hasn't written 100% of his own material. Actually, maybe he has and that's why none of it is funny. Just repeat what you've said, 98 times, each time more slowly with a longer gap between words.
Monders, Guardian.co.uk
Stewart Lee was a major dissapointment. 75 minutes of self-indulgent resentment and bitterness, all dressed-up as "unique", "quirky" etc. If it wasnt for the polite laughter from half the room (the half at which Stewart aimed all his remaining material once he identified them - literally - five minutes in) and the 15 simpletons laughing their heads off in the first two rows it would have been a wake. How can he think it funny to impersonate his mother advising him to be more like Tom O'Connor over and over and over again? Lazy, lazy performing.
Peacheycarahan, Guardian.co.uk
Watched Stewart Lee on Xmas eve 2009 and he was pretty crappy. The jokes were stretched out endlessly - imagine a 30 minute long joke where you only probably laugh at the 24th minute once. It wasnt genuinely funny at all - it was like he was trying very very hard and ended up being stupid. It was yawn-inducingly boring.
SGT, timeout.com
He's attractive, but in a seedy way. He hasn't worn well for 40. I think he looks a lot like Morrissey.
Morriszapp, Mumsnet.com
My mate has had a huge crush on SL forever, but even she's starting to admit that time hasn't been kind to him.
Queenoftheharpies, mumsnet.com
He does look a bit weird nowadays. Physically, middle-age doesn't suit him the way it suits some people.
Chipolata, comedy.co.uk
His approach to gag telling seems to be that because he is so much more insightful than his audience that is just going to bloody well keep going until even the most retarded of them has got the joke. Sorry I did not see what was so intelligent about his act. Sneering about other people being stupid is not in itself clever. The basic problem is that there are not enough gags. He gets an idea, and instead of building on it and developing it into a proper routine, he just hammers home the same point until any possible humour has been drained out of it
Timbo, comedy.co.uk
I think the problem is he's not actually funny. Lying on the floor ranting about Del Boy just made him look mentally ill frankly. He comes across as arrogant and condescending. A final point - Lee should get a suit that actually fits.
Morris Minor, comedy.co.uk