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Last Updated 4th March 2008

BIG NEWS – DVD OF 41ST BEST STAND-UP RECORDING + TV PILOT + CHORTLE AWARD + BUY TIX FOR BLOOMSBURY TEN BEST STAND-UPS IN WORLD EVER, PUH-LEASE.

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1) 41ST BEST STAND-UP EVER DVD

I will be recording a live DVD of the new show at The Stand, Glasgow, April 7th, 8pm and 10pm. £10 I think. Official Glasgow Stand web site Box office: 0870 600 6055

2) 41st BEST STAND-UP EVER, CHORTLE AWARD

The new show won the Chortle award for best stand-up show of 2007 in February, so I would like to thank anyone that voted for it. It was picked up for me by ITV’s Richard Herring and I can barely walk at the moment and have to have a stool on stage like some kind of Ronnie Corbett character.

3) 41ST BEST STAND-UP EVER TOURING

The endless tour continues to bizarrely varied audience sizes and standing ovations mixed with blind fury from people who loathe it on the Chortle comments board.

“Oh dear. If this guy is the 41st best comedian in the world ever then that pretty much lands everyone else ranked lower than him in the shitter. He really is terrible.” “Absolutely awful.Who voted this guy into 41st. Had the misfortune to see at Hereford on Feb 2.” “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. … 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.” I am joined on the last leg of the tour by some fantastic guests in the shape of Henning When, Kevin Eldon and the antipodeans Greg Fleet and Wilson Dixon. Fleet rarely performs here and is one of comedy’s few geniuses. I won’t be doing this show again after April 20th. NOTE REVERSAL OF GLASGOW AND DONCASTER DATES. Swindon has sold poorly apparently.

March 2nd	Buxton Opera House - Support: Greg Fleet	website - 0845 1272190
March 4th	Swindon, Arts Centre - Support: Greg Fleet	website - 01793 614837
March 6th	Solihull Arts Complex - Support: Greg Fleet	website - 0121 704 6962
March 7th	Edmonton Millfield Theatre - Support: Greg Fleet	website - 020 8807 6680
March 19th	Durham Gala Theatre - Support: Wilson Dixon	website - 0191 332 4041
March 20th	Glasgow, The Stand - Support: Wilson Dixon	website - 0870 600 6055
March 21st	Nottingham Playhouse - Support: Wilson Dixon	website - 0115 941 9419
March 22nd	Doncaster, Civic - Support: Wilson Dixon	website - 01302 342349
March 26th	Wellingborough, Castle Theatre - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01933 270007
March 27th	Burnley Mechanics - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01282 664400
March 28th	Oxford, The Cellar - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01865 305305
March 29th	Maidenhead Nordon Farm Centre For The Arts - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01628 788997
March 30th	Wells, Long Paws Comedy Club - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 07929 881 040

April 5th	Bath, The Ustinov , Theatre Royal - Support: Kevin Eldon	website - 01225 448844
April 10th	Bristol, The Comedy Box - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 0117 9223686
April 11th	Bristol, The Comedy Box - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 0117 9223686
April 12th	Barnstaple Pilton Hall - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01271 373392
April 13th	Weston-Super-Mare, Playhouse - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01934 645544
April 17th	Huddersfield, Lawrence Batley Theatre - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01484 430528
April 19th	Pocklington Arts Centre - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 01759 301547
April 20th	Bromley, The Churchill - Support: Henning Wehn	website - 0870 0606620

4) THE TEN BEST STAND-UPS IN THE WORLD EVER

"A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM STEWART LEE, 41ST BEST STAND UP EVER.
Last year Channel 4 astounded comedians and comedy fans with the show The 100 Best Stand-Ups, a definitive list of the official best comedians of all time. I arrived at a pleasing number 41. But was the list really definitive? Apparently it was based on comedy industry insiders' advice, critical acclaim, and public votes on a shortlist of 150 pre-selected acts.
Now, I am a comedy industry insider, member of the public and critic, writing for The Sunday Times, Wire, Bucketful Of Brains and Good Housekeeping amongst others. And so I have arrived at my own definitive list of the best ten stand-ups of all time, based on my insider knowledge and a secret ballot of myself conducted by me. Over half of the acts finally selected weren't even in the stupid Channel 4 short list of 150. Some I wanted to include were either unavailable (Daniel Kitson) or unwilling to participate in what seemed to them to be a self-aggrandising and dishonest conceit (Jerry Sadowitz).
But basically, this is as near as dammit to the five shows I'd like to see most if I were told I could only ever see five more stand-up shows in my life, for some reason. And remember, I know more about this subject than you, probably. Some of the acts in the season are so brilliant their genius has prevented them from becoming household names. One is so famous he or she cannot even be named, like some kind of Old Testament deity, or government assassin. I'm going to be do 20-30 mins of material that's brand new or so old it seems new each week too. And there's a special deal if you book for 4 of the 5 shows.
This will be the best season of stand-up anywhere ever. And yes, I know there are no Americans."

The Bloomsbury Theatre
All shows £17.50. All Shows 7.30pm Start. Box Office number 020 7388 8822 - www.thebloomsbury.com

25th April	Mystery Star / Simon Munnery
2nd May	Harry Hill / Boothby Graffoe
9th May	Kevin Macaleer / Will Adamsdale in Jackson's Way
16th May	John Hegley / Stephen Carlin
23rd May	Greg Fleet / Josie Long and The White Chris Rock

5) JOHNSON AND BOSWELL – LIVE BUT LATE
My play-thing Johnson and Boswell Late But Live was a hit at the Traverse Edinblur in August and will be doing a big Scotch tour in 2008. Everyone who worked on it was ace. Here’s dates for 2008 so far, with Miles Jupp and Simon Munnery both reprising their acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe roles, and director Owen Lewis and piper Neil Maclure both back on board too.


Tuesday 18	Glasgow Tron
Wednesday 19	Glasgow Tron
Thursday 20	Glasgow Tron
Friday 21	Glasgow Tron
Saturday 22	Glasgow Tron
Sunday 23	Glasgow Tron

Tuesday 25	Skye
Wednesday 26	Glenuig Hall
Thursday 27	Inverness Eden Court
Friday 28	Inverness Eden Court
Saturday 29	Inverness Eden Court
Sunday 30	Findhorn Universal Hall


Tuesday 1	Dundee Rep
Wednesday 2	Dundee Rep
Thursday 3	Ullapool Macphail Centre
Friday 4	Stirling MacRobert
Saturday 5	Cumbernauld Theatre
Sunday 6	Aberdeen Arts Centre

Wednesday 9	Stornaway LannTair
Thursday 10	Oban Corran Halls
Friday 11	Banchory Woodend Barn
Saturday 12	Dunkeld Birnam

Thursday 17	Peebles Eastgate
Friday 18	Dunfermline Carnegie
Saturday 19	Kilmarnock Palace

6) TV PILOT – STEWART LEE’S COMEDY VEHICLE
Thanks to everyone that came to the recording of the BBC2 pilot Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. Everything went really well on the following 2 days’ filming too, and the series will supposedly be filmed early 2009.

7) KEVIN ELDON’S POET’S TREE
Kevin Eldon’s character Paul Hamilton has a 4 part Radio 4 series which I wrote some of and script edited, though I made some basic errors which were later corrected. The tx dates are 2nd/9th/16th.23rd May, 11pm.