This year I have chosen to adopt the following quotes as my mantras.

“Comedy can be a transient art that can assist leisure businesses in widening their appeal, something that is vital in these current trading conditions.” Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs

“James just said “fuck it”. It was a lot of money and why not? Loads has happened in his life people don’t know about.‘”
A ‘friend’ of TV’s James Corden on his £1m autobiography deal.

“I’ve always though of Stewart Lee’s comedy as doing the opposite of what really good comedy should do.”
Toby Young, BBC Radio 4

DEAR RATFANS

Coming up: Arty John Cage events all over the land, arts programming by me in Cheltenham and London, comics conventions, new live shit, dumb ass comments.

JOHN CAGE’S INDETERMINACY

I have been invited by the musicians Steve Beresford and Tania Chen to do the spoken word bit in their performance of John Cage’s Indeterminacy at the following shows, details TBC.
Saturday May 8th: Bexhill-On-Sea – De La Warr Pavilion. 3pm – Tickets
Saturday May 28th: London – Mini-Meltdown – South Bank. Time TBC

CHELTENHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL

After it’s successful debut in 2010, Jamie Cullum’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival continues it’s Freehouse strand, guest curated by Stewart Lee and Chris Cundy, which will feature some of the UK’s finest experimental music exponents and a special performance of John Cage’s Indeterminacy.
http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/find-events. ALAN WILKINSON TRIO are currently SUPERB.
GET YA SELVES DOWN TO MY CHELTENHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL.

Freehouse: Indeterminacy, curated by Stewart Lee, The Playhouse Theatre, Cheltenham, Sat 30th April 8pm – 10pm
Writer, comedian and experimental music fan Stewart Lee joins fearless contemporary pianists Steve Beresford and Tania Chen for a performance of John Cage’s Indeterminacy. They are joined by trombonist Alan Tomlinson who will also perform Cage’s Solo for Sliding Trombone.

Freehouse: Alan Wilkinson Trio, curated by Stewart Lee, The Playhouse Theatre, Cheltenham, Sun 1st May 8pm-10pm
One of the hottest bands on the London improvised music scene, Alan Wilkinson leads his trio featuring the brilliant bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble playing ‘free jazz’ born exclusively out of intense listening and an almost intuitive creativity. Their willingness to embrace a broad spectrum of styles is redefining traditional barriers and prejudices, making the music vibrate with a renewed sense of freedom.

STEWART LEE’S COMEDY VEHICLE SERIES 2

The second series of SLCV will begin transmission on BBC2 in the post-newsnight slot on Wednesday May 4th at 11.20pm.
We were asked to create a show to try and carve out the post-newsnight slot for comedy and have done so.
The material comprises the 3 hours I worked up in the Vegetable Stew shows August –December 2010, and ten minutes of old stuff, and has been seen by less than 25 000 guinea-pig people live in advance of transmission.
The material, except the ten minutes of old stuff, will not be available commercially in any other format than as part of SLCV series 2 and was generated specifically with the TV format in mind.

DODGEM LOGIC LONDON

Wed 4 May Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic Steve Aylett, Robin Ince, Savage Pencil, Melinda Gebbie, Kevin O’Neill & The Retro Spankees Round Chapel | 7pm | £10 adv/£12 door

Alan Moore’s reinvigoration of the underground fanzine, Dodgem Logic, comes alive in the non-conformist surroundings of Hackney’s Round Chapel. A night of art, comedy, comment and put-something-back localism.

Released bi-monthly since 2009, Dodgem Logic is equal parts escapist entertainment, social curiosity and grassroots activism: a formidable pick-and-mix of hardworking humour and indie-essaying.
An ink-stained-mantle-carrier for all the socially involved photocopy-and-staple self-published antecedents. With Robin Ince heading up a colossal stand-up bill, artists Steve Aylett, Savage Pencil, Melinda Gebbie and Kevin O’Neill panel-up to talk about their comic work, while music comes from hyperactive racketeers The Retro Spankees.

With an exhibition of artwork from the magazine, and conducted by editor-in-chief Alan Moore. I think I am doing something in this too.

STEWART LEE’S AUSTERITY BINGE

I am curating a weekend of events at the South Bank Centre, London, 27 -30 May.
“Stewart Lee, the stand-up comedian and writer, presents some of Britain’s most resilient cult artists. Featuring Trembling Bells, the Nightingales, a host of folk figureheads, enduring stars of the 1980s Alternative Comedy scene, and a John Cage special.”

In the words of Stewart Lee: ‘As an E-list celebrity comedian and gentleman-amateur music journalist popular with the arts consumer demographic, I am delighted to have been asked to curate a short season for Southbank Centre.
Needless to say it’s a dream come true, a chance to programme all the talents I have been inspired by, and ripped-off, over the last three decades. Come! Feast upon my Austerity Banquet!’

FRIDAY 27th May
Stewart Lee in The Complete Vegetable Stew.
The recent sell-out West End run of Stewart Lee’s Vegetable Stew saw him perform a random three of a possible six 30-minute sets each evening, assembling shows for the second series of BBC2’s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
Now in one marathon of stand-up, Stew offers up all six sections in one enormous show, live, for definitely the very last time.
Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm.

SATURDAY 28th May
John Cage’s Indeterminacy with Steve Beresford, Tania Chen and Stewart Lee + guests.
Indeterminacy was originally recorded in 1959, with David Tudor playing the piano and John Cage reading aloud 90 stories, each lasting one minute. At this show, fearless contemporary pianists Tania Chen and Steve Beresford assume the role of Tudor, joining forces with Stewart Lee to accompany Cage’s stories with random and unrelated events on the piano (and other things). Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.30pm

SATURDAY 28TH May
A tribute to Nic Jones
The current English folk revival owes much to Nic Jones. Despite a career-ending car accident nearly 30 years ago, his early recordings have inspired countless stars of the folk scene. In this very special concert, produced in association with Sidmouth FolkWeek, some of his biggest fans, including Martin Carthy, Ashley Htchings and Jim Moray, pay tribute to Nic by sharing their favourites from his repertoire. Nic also returns to the stage for a reunion of The Bandoggs. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7pm £24 £20

SUNDAY 29TH May
At Last The 1981 Show
A celebration of the alternative comedy of 30 years ago curated by Stewart Lee and Paul Jackson at the Royal Festival Hall. At Last The 1981 Show presents acts who were part of the burgeoning new comedy scene, just before alternative comedy took off in 1982. Some you might have seen in that comedic Indian summer – some famous, some infamous, some unfamous – all massively significant.
It was 30 years ago today. Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm

BILL IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Nigel Planer as Nicholas Craig and Neil The Folksinger
Arthur Smith
The Oblivion Boys
Norman Lovett
The Greatest Show On Legs
Andrew Bailey
Alexei Sayle
Arnold Brown
Kevin MacAleer
Frank Chicken
Chris Lynham
(and more who cannot be announced, including women)
Ticket link

MONDAY 30th May
Trembling Bells & Mike Heron + Nick Pynn
In the wake of their acclaimed third album, The Constant Pageant, ‘the 21st century troubadours’ Trembling Bells continue to synthesise traditional forms with post-rock textures and improvisatory rumbles.
Their guests are The Incredible String Band founder Mike Heron, in whose footsteps they follow, and multi-instrumentalist Nick Pynn.
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7pm £15 £12.50

MONDAY 30th May
The Nightingales + Vic Godard & Subway Sect
Birmingham’s indomitable punk survivors fuse Beefheart licks and pulverising rhythms with a strangely sensitive cynicism, and arrive at Southbank Centre in advance of imminent National Treasure status.
Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.15pm £15

Friday 27th – Monday 30th May
Real Food market
With summer well on the way, savor the May Bank Holiday with some of the fat glutton Stew’s favorite food and drink. Fresh asparagus, broad beans, cherries and fennel, a particular favorite of Stew’s, sit alongside delicious spring lamb, slow-reared pork and more seasonal treats.
Southbank Centre Square, Friday 11am – 8pm, Saturday 10am – 6pm, Sunday 12 noon – 6pm.

How to book
Southbankcentre.co.uk Tickets 0844 847 9911 9am – 8pm (daily).
Transaction fees applicable.
No transaction fees for Southbank Centre Members.
In person: Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office 10am – 8pm (daily).
SOHO WORK-IN-PROGRESS RUN

New material. June 13th – 18th, 20th – 23rd. 9pm. £10. Tickets here.

EDINBURGH 2011

I’ll be at The Stand, Edinburgh, in August, doing a new work in progress show, Flickwerk 2011. Details TBA.
Here’s the 40 and 100 word blurbs.

Stewart Lee – Flickwerk 2011.
Work towards new live show.
“Gigged with him. Arrogant twat.” Japaneseboy, Chortle.co.uk.
“Smug, self-righteous, unfunny prick. Thoroughly unpleasant in real life.” Donuticus, thestudentroom.co.uk.
“Embarrassing old man ranting like teenage student, labouring “jokes”, deliberately unfunny.” Tony Cowards.

Stewart Lee – Flickwerk 2011. Work in progress towards new live show.
“Gigged with him. Arrogant twat.” Japaneseboy, Chortle.co.uk.
“After 35 years as a professional comic you weigh people up pretty good. Lee is whispering, piggy eyed, smug, arrogant, arty farty twat.” Roy, Chortle.co.uk.
“Used to go out with my wife’s cousin. He’s a cock.” MrBloefeldt, readytogo.com.
“Smug, self-righteous, unfunny prick. Thoroughly unpleasant bloke in real life.” Donuticus, thestudentroom.co.uk.
“Lee is a borderline alcoholic, aggressively taunting and downright insulting society.” Chong Nhu, martialartsplanet.com.
“Feel sorry for his wife and son, spending Sunday afternoon with someone who thinks they’re funny.” Dino, spoonfed.com.

STRATFORD CIRCUS BOOK EVENT

Sunday June 19th, 6pm
Stewart Lee will be speaking about his book How I Escaped My Certain Fate in conversation with Michael Rosen.
This bestselling book by acclaimed stand-up comedian Stewart Lee now comes with an entirely new section on his most recent show, ‘Vegetable Stew’.
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why ‘wool’ is a funny word!
See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face! In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making opera about Jerry Springer.

How I Escaped My Certain Fate details his return to live performance, and the journey that took him from an early retirement to his position as the most critically acclaimed stand-up in Britain.

Here is Stewart Lee’s own account of his remarkable comeback, told through transcripts of the three legendary full-length shows that sealed his reputation, plus transcripts of his most recent show ‘Vegetable Stew’.

These astonishingly frank and detailed in-depth notes reveal the inspiration and inner workings of his act; with unprecedented access to a leading comedian’s creative process, this book tell us just what it was like to write these shows, develop the performance and take them on tour.
How I Escaped My Certain Fate is everything we have come to expect from Stewart Lee: fiercely intelligent, unsparingly honest and very funny.
6pm. Info Here.

IF YOU PREFER A MILDER COMEDIAN PLEASE ASK FOR ONE DVD

Went on sale Monday 11th Oct 2010 and is still floating about Amazon’s top 30, so thanks for that. Amazon Link.

HOW I ESCAPED MY CERTAIN FATE

My book did better than anyone could have expected, so thanks for your support.
If your local bookstore isn’t stocking it, or doesn’t exist, you can get it on Amazon on from meat gigs. Amazon Link.

LIVE SHIT

Saturday 7th – On a bill of 4 comics at Union Chapel, London
Wednesday 11th – w Nick Pynn, Jane Bom-Bayne’s, Brighton Fringe
Friday 27th – Complete Vegetable Stew at Royal Festival Hall, London

Saturday 4th – Benefit (unpaid) for St Evelina’s, Bloomsbury, London
Monday 6th – Benefit (unpaid) for Simon House, Grand Union pub, London
Friday 10th – Benefit (unpaid) for something somewhere in Notting Hill, London
Monday 13th – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Tuesday 14th – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Wednesday 15th – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Thursday 16th – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Friday 17th – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Satuday 18th – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Monday 20th – Benefit (unpaid) for something at Bloomsbury, London
Monday 20th – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Tueday 21st – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets
Wednesday 22nd – work in progress at Soho Theatre, London – Tickets

Saturday 16th – Benefit (unpaid) for Cardboard Citizens at Hackney Empire, London
Wednesday 20th – Benefit (unpaid) for No Sweat at Bloomsbury, London. Tickets
Friday 29th – Benefit (unpaid)for Stoke Newington homeless, somewhere

3rd – 14th, 16th – 29th. Work in progress. Flickwerk 2011. The Stand, Edinburgh, 5.15pm

Thursday 20th – Benefit (unpaid) – LST, WOM (don’t know what these notes mean)
Sunday 30th – R Herring’s Lyric Hammersmith night, London

THE MUSIC GROUP

I done a R4 show called The Music Group, talking about Derek Bailey. Tuesday 26th April at 1.30pm, repeated on Saturday 1st May at 3.30pm iPlayer link is here.

MORE FROM THE MESSAGE BOARDS

Here is an ongoing selection of bad reviews I have been compiling.

“A sneering tosser.” Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk

“Stewart Lee is about as funny as an abortion.” Mr Biff Olive, Youtube

“Smug elitist liberalism. Who is this cunt?” Tokyofist, Youtube

“I hate Stewart Lee with a passion. He’s like Ian Huntley to me.” Wharto15, Twitter

“Stuart Lee = Cock” Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk

“Stewart Lee is a massive asshole.” Secretdeveloper, Youtube

“I saw him at a gig once, and even offstage he was exuding an aura of creepy molesty smugness.” Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com

“I always thought he looked like morrisey with down syndrome.” Drvol1, Youtube

“Stewart Lee. Boring as hell and unfunny.” Peter Ould, Twitter

“Five minutes of Stewart Lee makes me want to kill myself . Completely unfunny, dated, painful SHIT.” Anon, westhamonline.com

“One man I would love to beat with a shit covered cricket bat.” Joycey, readytogo.net

“The most overrated smug twat ever.” Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk

“A small, sad man.” FBC, finalgear.com

“Stewart lee is a shit comedian doing a shit impression of a shit comedian. If he was burned alive it could raise serious cash.” Mrdavisn01, Twitter

“I hope stewart lee dies.” Idrie, Youtube

“Fuck this Stewart Lee twat, fuck anyone that agrees with him, and FUCK PC.” Mearecate, Youtube

“3rd rate comedian and politically correct maggot.” Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot

“All this man seems to be able to do is dance about going “ah ha ha ha ha ha!’ So incredibly unfunny.” Emilyistrendy, Youtube

“Lee was a good comic. Unfortunately now he comes across as a chaotic drunk.” Foxfoxton, Youtube

“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, don’t start me off.com

“Prime example of a well educated looooooser.” Rudeness, Youtube

“If this is supposed to be a “Comedy Vehicle,” maybe someone should call the RAC to get it started.” Gwaites, Digitalspy

“The boringly infantile Stewart Lee.” Peter Ould, Youtube

“This guy sure knows how to run a joke into the ground.” Mpf1947, Youtube

“I hate comedy that presumes to ‘defend’ minorities like me. Sod off, you don’t know what offends me, so you can’t protect me from it. But most of the things you think offend me don’t.” Sweeping Curves, Twitter

“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

“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

“A fraud and a total unfunny tit.” Bosco239, youtube

“Lee seems to think he’s more clever than he really is. His material is delivered in a “If you don’t find this funny, you can’t be very intelligent” manner, which is an attitude perpetuated by the pseudo-intellectual Guardian reading arsebiscuits who like him.” Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com

“Quite possibly the most boring stand-up I’ve ever heard. I fail to see what on earth is funny about him rambling on….and on…and on…” Kozzy06, Youtube

“After careful deliberation, I can now say I have finally gone off Stewart Lee. Give it two years and so will you.” Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter

“Sorry, Something has gone wrong (Error 500). Unfortunately this part of iPlayer has temporarily stopped working. This will be because there has been an unforeseen technical error.” BBC iPlayer edition of disussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read “I must protest most feverently at the prospect of further wanton waste of the licence fee on this pile of wank.” Aaron, comedy.co.uk

“Stewart Lee is a pedantic, overrated, mundane little shit of a comedian. And yes, I do ‘get’ him, it’s just … wank.” Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork

“Just seen a very haggard looking Stewart Lee near Carnaby St. He was carrying laundry.” @98rosjon, Twitter

“This guy is as funny as a kick in the nuts.” Ckay, Chrismoyles.net

“Alleged comedian Stewart Lee is cheap and mean spirited”, Iain, eatenbymissionaries

“WHAT THE HELL! If i ever find you, lee, i promise i will, I WILL, kick the crap out of you.” Carcrazychica, Youtube

“The thinking woman’s potato farl.” Rubyshoes, Twitter

“The ludicrously coiffered fat-of-face fuck” Mini-x2, readytogo.net

“Stewart Lee is a pompous, condescending bore, and he isn’t remotely funny. He claims to have read the entire works of William Blake – he obviously completely missed one of the great themes of Blake: a love and respect for all humanity. If smugness could be harnessed as a form of energy this man could help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.” Danazawa, Youtube

“I spent the entire time thinking of how much I want to punch Stewart Lee in the face instead of laughing. He does have an incredibly punchable face, doesn’t he? (I could just close my eyes, but fantasizing about punching Stewart Lee is still more fun than sitting in complete, stony silence.) Fucking smug-faced cunt.” Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.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

“Christ what a monotoned smug nobhead, don’t you people get tired of his student aimed so called humour, god he’s crap.” Anamatronix, Youtube

“Lee makes pretentious lefty dickheads feel good about themselves and superior to others.” Underground906, Youtube

“I continue to watch out of amazement at how unfunny this is… he has made me snigger but once when talking about getting your willy stuck in a zippe. Anyone could get a laugh with that! It amazes me how he likes to repeat the same thing several times, likes to repeat things several times, repeat things several times, several times, times.” Stuart, Chortle

“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.

“I really cannot *bear* the bumptious prick that is Stewart Lee.” Lucinda Locketts, Twitter

“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

“I had to walk out of Stewart Lee’s gig tonight when my wife started projectile vomiting!” Cyberbloke, Twitter

“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

“Stewart Lee : 20 years of ‘sneer = career’.” Clampdown59, Twitter.

“Jealous that your comedy career didn’t go anywhere Lee?” Anonymous, don’tstartmeoff.com

“Stupid. Unfunny. Hypocritical. Nonsensical. Fits in with his fanboys’ worldview, basically.” Guest1001, Youtube

“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

“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

“No part of this routine was funny enough to even bother delivering it. I’m not offended, more bemused by his total lack of talent and why the audience are laughing at his dull and obvious “jokes”.” Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube

“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.

“I don;t feel Stewart Lee is funny anymore, just a boring droning on ‘comedian’ who’s set’s just happen to be the most unlively sets in the comedy world.” Spursguy, Youtube

“He talks only about commonplace things, with a really slow pace. He made me smile. That’s it! A disappointment.” Etienne, Chortle.com

“Lee makes Kim Jong II look comparatively relaxed. Maybe it’s time to lighten up a little?” Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph

“Lee is 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

“Typical left wing wankstain. When someone happens to disagree with them, they just yell “Nazi” or “racist”. When challenged, the pathetic cunts can’t even justify why they’ve said it, they’ll just repeat it ad nauseam. I suspect that many of Lee’s fans think they’re superior to everyone else because he’s perceived as being a bit niche and edgy, when really he’s just a smug, fat, unfunny shitbasket.” Mrjohnnykitkat, Youtube

“His whole tone is one of complete, smug condescension.” Birmingham Sunday Mercury

“This guy just isnt funny ….. standing there telling mildly humerous stories does not make you funny … so overrated.” Boygeniuz, Youtube

“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

“Stewart Lee is so, so, irritating.” RossB, Twitter

“Emperor’s new clothes. This man is a cock.” Mdnw2007, Youtube

“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

“Stewart Lee – not funny. Just putting that out there.” Commodore Dan, Twitter

“Urrgh. I liked Stewart Lee briefly about seven years ago but I haven’t been able to stand him since.” Narrativiumgirl, Twitter

“Comedy for ‘up their own arse’ ponces.” ???markzilla6969, Youtube

“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

“Top Gear attack things that really ought to be attacked, like the bloody bus lane on the M4, Stewart Lee just attacks anything that doesn’t fit in with his stupidly socialist world view.” Scourge of God, Youtube

“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

“Has anybody noticed that this Stewart Lee guy is poo’ing a massive halo out of his backside? How the ‘left’ take the moral ground hey! Peace.” Pittounikos, Youtube

“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 crap I’m afraid.” Balboa, Guardian.co.uk

“I find this guy hard to warm to. He’s a bit slimy” Graemeoliver, Youtube

“Oh, that Lee! He’s suuuch a kidder! *tch* And by that I mean a scum sucking, attention whore who should just die horribly from brain cancer while his family laugh because he’s a contemptuous little prick with no redeeming social qualities whatsoever. HAHAHA!!” Squidge, finalgear.com

“An evil, evil man and not in the slightest bit funny” Ronnie, Nottingham, Dailymail.co.uk

“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

“Its like richard herrings comedy. People like it because they think by understanding it, they are smart. But really its shit.” Jonphonics, Twitter

“He’s about as funny as piles.” Ealoraont, Youtube

“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

“Still time to vote for @Herring1967 in the Chortle Awards! Don’t vote for Stewart Lee, though.” Piccadillo, Twitter

“Slow, boring delivery from the smuggest cunt on them all.” johnwinfield367676, Youtube

“Stewart Lee: speaks slowly, acts smarmy and looks confused.” Speakslowly, drownedinsound.com

“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

“Slow, boring and not at all funny. People who like this dick are retarded.” Dharmashooter, Youtube

“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

“George Carlin was an intelligent comedian and his delivery was great at a normal speed. This is just slow-motion man. It goes beyond any form of comedic timing. This is like watching a sloth read an essay. I think the most impressive thing is his ability to find enough middle-aged angry champagne socialists to buy tickets for a horrendously unfunny act. I’m sure if I watched for long enough he’d have rolled out a few tired Daily Mail comments. Comedy is about making you laugh… not about allowing you to join in a public snide-athon where one can exude moral exclusivity with our peers. It’s smug, self-righteous bs.” CorXXXSmile, Youtube

“He needs to either stop getting drunk during the show or stop being self-pityingly depressed in a mid-life crisis. Watching the old, past-it, fat, grey comedian vocally wishing for death isn’t that funny.” Melotronic, forum.watmm.com

“Is this comedy?….You need to buy a frankie boyle dvd fella, here’s a tip……….retire!” Totes32, Youtube

“The only true fool is a man who considers himself more intelligent than everyone else. Stewart Lee is afflicted with this condition, and sadly he probably will not recover anytime soon.” P12z13, Youtube

“I don`t know how stewart lee can call himself a comedian. Went to his show and it was the worst performance i`ve ever seen. It was so bad i was stunned.” Prodeoetpatria1691, comedians.iniv8.com

“Some people look for somthing more in a stand up then using big words and slagging off the more successful. This is intellectual snobbery at it’s worst – but its not even that clever, lee’s trick is to take a simple concept and phrase it in a way that makes it sound intelligent. One word mate: cancelled.” Mrseppo2010, Youtube

“Shit, look at him. He’s so unfunny he has to bitch about how there are funny people that are popular, and I’m positive the audience is paid to laugh, and when they do it’s clear it’s uncomfortable laughter. Cunt.” Gemini4, Youtube

“Lee is just a fat Rob Newman without the melancholy surrealism.” Shatterface, liberalconspiracy.org

“The Yawnmaker. He’s been in comedy for 20 years? And this is the best he can come up with? Basically snide comments about people who he obviously considers leagues below his great self?” Lord Fauntleroy Mahonk, dontstartmeoff.com

“I imagine this it what it would be like if Morrissey did stand-up. Really very dull.” Noriarty, Youtube “How the hell does he pass himself off as a comedian, Those people in the audience must be really easily pleased n life to find him even mildly amusing.” Chef, Ush.net

“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

“God this bitter whining silly man really needs to shut up lol. I mean seriously, people pay this man money to listen to him whine like this? Pathetic.” Superiority85, Youtube

“His smug attitude and the fact that he comes accross like a grade A bellend makes him unwatchable for me.” Joycey33, readytogo.net

“The biggest pile of crap I have ever seen! Boring and unfunny. Childish. Made an absolute fool of himself.” – Lianne, Chortle.co.uk

“One of those deluded self righteous liberal cunts who choose to be blind to certain issues” Luke Griffiths, Youtube

“Urgh i don’t think stewart lee’s voice could get any more smug and annoying” Vicki Fran, Twitter

“That humourless apparatchik Stewart Lee is genuinely offensive. He gives me the willy’s.” Norcalmo, Guardian.co.uk

“Christ I hate stewart lee – he really is a pompous fucking wanker. He really is a pompous fucking wanker a pompous wanker he really is a pompous fucking wanker.” Al, urban75.net

“Absolutely shite. Wank comedy made by a wanker for wankers. Loads of “safe” and tedious jokes while constantly peddling his left wing views to appear fashionable. Perfectly suited to the bbc. Go to your local pub and chances are you’ll meet someone funnier than him. He is arguably worse than Lenny Henry.” Archer, Readytogo.net

“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

“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

“Fna fna… not remotely funny, another one who thinks hes funnier than he is. Its soooooo trendy to like these so called intelligent comedians… oh please, give me a break… Middle class up his own backside twddle…” Baabaa, Digitalspy

“Sociology lecturers aren’t really funny, are they? No matter how smug they are.” Roger Hoare, Youtube

“I fucking hate stewart lee, so this is shit. All his comedy is taking the piss out of other people when in fact he should look in the mirror at his egotistical fat morrisey wannabe face and slam it into the glass.” Jabba897, reddit.com

“Cnt beileve i pay my taxes for this shit the BBc shold make good programs like balls of steel and jackass!! infact get moyles to do a program where he takes the piss out of this wanker!!!!!!! and OMG not knowin what a rapper iz!! wt sort of grandad iz he!>!>?!??!? so yeah dnt watch this shit watch horne and corden instead a decent program frm the BBC for once not the usaal tax wasting shit like this!!!” Tom W, Chortle

“Stuart Lee is a fcking coward. He wouldnt dare insult the prophet muhhummed. stuart Lee a pathetic little worm! ps im nt viewing any of this rubbish.” Christian1truefaith, bagito.com

“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

“I put it to you Mr Lee that you are earning a liveing from using race related issues in your pointless act. How many times did i hear, Nigger, Wog, Darky, Paki* and a whole plethora other ‘un-pc’ racist derogatory remarks? Hypocritical pointless arsebert. That’s first thing that sprang to mind, what an ironic cunt he is. Not only does he use racist remarks but there’s an underlined air of bullshit in his anectdotes and stories that are purely used make a point where there’s absolutly no point to be made. He goes on about how if it wasn’t for the PC brigade the Conservatitive party would still be useing slogans like “Want to live next door to nigger? Vote Labour”. ** He’s a liar, the Conservative party has never used slogans like that so he is lieing to make a point at people that are stupid enough to believe him. He should be arrested for incitement. I can’t believe that i’ve just sat through 3 mins of his smarmy leftwing shite. A true cunt in every sense of the word.’ Hone st George, dontstartmeoff.com
(* I have never used the words wog, ‘darky’, or paki on stage, and used the word ‘nigger’ when quoting a famous football commentator. ** The Conservative Party slogan was used in Smethwick, Birmingham by Conservatives in 1964.)

“I don’t like Stewart Lee. I like my comedy to be funny and not a story of someones meaningless opinions of which I have no interest in.” Frednut, Twitter

“This is one of the biggest shitloaded pretending to be funny alike speaches that I ever heard, Not only this psicopath looking dog shit bag is hating without anfact to do so, but then thinks other people are also skizofrenics too. I hate you. This irrational hateress that makes someone to try to make fun out of talking shit from others for 15 min. So be aware Stewie. I know your face.” Hormigaz, Youtube

“I just woke up from a nightmare were the only comedians left in the world were stewart lee and steve coogan. what a boring nightmare of right on “sophisticated” never “offensive” islington humour it was indeed, were the laughs are just a smirk and nothing more. get over yourselves, your generation of comedians aren’t actually very funny – they are amusing at best.” Westmorland, Guardian.co.uk

“What a butt-hurt old man, deeply unfunny and a waste of time.” Grandurr 1327, Youtube

“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

“Watching English liberal atheists, like Mr Lee, ridiculing American Creationists is a bit like watching someone pick a fight with an asthmatic fat kid from the opposite side of a very busy road. One word, more pertinent to these shores; Islam! You fucking third-rate Bill Hicks wannabe coward!” Noonday100, Youtube

“All Stewart Lee managed to do though, was wind me up by dragging “jokes” out for too long.” Cassiejackson, Chrismoyles.net

“I don’t know how to feel about Stewart Lee. Sometimes I think he’s quite funny, but most of the time overwhelmingly smug.” MouseY, Twitter

“The people who enjoy his comedy also like boring dinner parties, socialism even though they are all living the capitalist lifestyle and think nothing at all bringing up the topic of cheese boards into a conversation and make a joke out of it that only they find funny. They probably hate country folk that hunt even though they them selves have done fuck all to preseve our natural enviroment and are too busy indulging themselve inn their own smuggness to stop and realise what twats they are. Stewart Lee+Comedy= does not work out.” 22623501, Youtube

“Only a Sun reader could mistake this dross for intelligent comedy. Probably laughs at farting noises too. Here’s to hoping this particular vehicle runs off the road. Under a train.” NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk

“Stewart lee is a prick. Saw him live he isn’t funny just obsessed with stupid issues like political correctness.” Fogjinda, Youtube

“He is NOT funny… In what way is this man a comedian?” Mr Angry, bbc.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

“An up-his-own-arse tosser who isn’t very funny but is perceived to be a slightly edgy, niche comedian and is therefore popular with up-their-own-arse tossers that enjoy being in the niche up-their-own-arse tosser club. Lee’s always been about as funny as getting spit roasted by Little and Large. I wish he’d fuck off, the unfunny cunt. He’s a cunt. I have a remit to chronicle cuntishness through the ages. I am writing the definitive compendium of cunts. The Lee Anus has a chapter all to himself. If you have no sense of humour, he’s the comic for you.” Withnail555, Youtube

“I always thought stuart lee was a smug, unfunny, my view’s right and if you disagree you’re wrong, right on lefty, cunt.” MadDog, westhamonline.com

“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

“I think stewart lee should be banned from actually being a so called “comedian”.” Sophie, Spalding, Dailymail.co.uk

“This man isn’t a comedian. He is disgusting, unfunny and a man full of hate. I think some members of the crowd agree with my statements.” Sireld, Youtube

“What a massive cunt. What a massive cunt. Cry some more, Stewart Lee.” Fiendish77, Youtube

“He has thrown two heads but he missed the third catch and the coin rolled under the wardrobe. We are still looking. On our knees. With a torch.” A J King, Amazon

“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
(*I left Shropshire at the age of 9 days old.)

“Stewart lee is so over-rated. Does he say something then leave a… Long pause?” Kilburnmat, Twitter “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

“This guy is so smug he nearly fell into his own arse. Smart arse twat – not funny at all.” Gallowgrey, Youtube

“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

“Burn in Hell Scum.” Christian1truefaith, Youtube

“A hate filled little man.” Willdaq, finalgear.com

“I saw Stewart Lee live in Galway a couple of years ago and he wasn’t very funny. I used to really like his early stuff and I always REALLY want to find him funny, but he’s just not.” LMNR, Youtube

“Did watch this guys comedy. I got it straight away. It was look at how clever I am. I really am clever, None of you are as clever as me. Just join mensa stewart.” Davy123, Guardian.co.uk

“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

“Stewart Lee : A man so far up his own backside he sneers at his own poop as it passes by.” Clampdown59, Twitter

“To have a smart ass Oxbridge sasnach making shit jokes about Gaelige irritates me beyond belief. Stewart Lee a patronising English imperialist cunt.” Lars3939, Youtube

“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

“An unfunny, smug, supremely pleased with himself bellend.” Jerrymorris, Youtube

“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

“Stood behind him in the queue at Forbidden Planet last year, he was reading a poor collection of Hellblazer rather than anything substantial, and anyone who buys their books at FP is a nob-ed. I was hoping for quality comedy, but this stand up was padded out with drivel (ie the rapper thing, y’know, the thing about rappers, you know don’t you, rappers, yeah, rappers, on the bannister, rappers, they slide along ’em, rappers, they do, they’re called rappers etc.) I didn’t laugh once despite being ripped to the t’s and wanting to find it funny. His act really misses Herrring’s over eager schoolboy to his aloof indie schtick, and maybe an editor to tell him ‘This isn’t funny, go and rewrite it till it is. I’d love to join the Stewart Lee bandwagon that all the reviewers seem to be on, but I’m going to sit on the sidelines and throw the rotten tomatoes till he starts being funny. I too have loved Stewart, but this seems more like I’ve met up with him through Friends reunited aft er years apart, had one bad shag, gone back for another just to find that he was a bad shag first time.” Beef, eastdulwichforum

“Stewart Lee is a fucking asshole; another left-wing, Labour, BBC luvvy propagating politically correct bullshit.” Lightfoot, Youtube

“Crap… like ‘bottom’, just not funny.” Frigadol, Youtube

“”I was able to predict his line on any subject with completely accuracy to the lady of the house.” Greysimon1, bbc.co.uk

“What a SICK man Stewart Lee is. My condolences to his family and friends.” Sharon, Shoreham, Dailymail.co.uk

“How the hell does he pass himself off as a comedian, Those people in the audience must be really easily pleased n life to find him even mildly amusing.” Chef, Ush.net

“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’s as amusing as toothache!” Keith, Switzerland, Dailymail.co.uk

“Steward Lee is a bitter, cynical and arrogant prick. Wat a hateful cunt.” Tommart123, Youtube

“I went to see Stewart Lee in Brighton last night and it was thoroughly disappointing. He’s become formulaic and large parts of the show were just a rambling mess. Stewart Lee is also shorter than you’d think, and fatter than he looks on stage.” Willybum, zetaboards.com

“If that’s the state of British comedy today then come back Bernard Manning all is forgiven!” Andrew Hall, Bradford, Dailymail.co.uk

“He certainly no Bernard Manning. Complete and utter shite. A smug lefty arse. Bernard was a genius, from the golden age of comedy that’s sadly gone now in a time where you can’t insult anyone any more. You can’t even take the piss out of gays now, they’re passing a law to make homophobic jokes illegal. Scots are fair game still though so I’ve seen from Lee’s DVD.” Magnificent Bastard, Readytogo.net

“Intellectual pretensions aside for a moment Stewart Lee is a bit of a knob sometimes., isn’t he?” Contrapuntal, Twitter

“This guy is a douche bag who probably drank to much before going on stage to prove what a complete and utter asshole he is.” GRTak, finalgear.com

“It is basically him making a few different faces and reading the text while some idiots mindlessly laugh for no reason. He says a few words, just normal words and the audience laugh. “Well I was walking down the road” Pauses and makes a face *laughter* “And I saw a dog” Pauses and makes a face *laughter* “I think it was a Poodle” Pauses and makes a face *laughter* “Maybe a Jack Russel with Curly hair” Pauses and makes a face *laughter* “I walked past it while looking at it” Pauses and makes a face *laughter*. You get the picture. I hate this * shite. Painful… I started to feel sorry for him. Worst thing is that he obviously thinks a lot of himself.” Monkeymonger, Chrismoyles.net

“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

“Im sorry stewart lee fans but his material is lazy, repitive, dirivative and aimed squarely at the sychophants.” dufftownallan, eurogamer.com

“What a prick.” Jordanrowell555, Youtube

“Absolutely the saddest so called comedian I have ever heard. Trash is the only word I can think of this person. Disgusting!!!” Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk

“I watched the whole thing and didn’t even smile once. What a terrible comedian…” Sthhlm, Youtube

“Come back Mr Lee when you have achieved 1% of what Ben Elton has achieved.” Redandwhiterob, readytogo.net

“Please Mr Lee do humanity a favor and scuttle back under your rock” Charles, North Carolina, Dailymail.co.uk

“Hes a pile of crap. Not funny whatever” skype29, skyvu.com

“Stewart Lee is a sick, unfunny excuse of a man…” Rusty, Surrey, Dailymail.co.uk

“He was struck off the comedic role-call forever with his breath-taking hypocrisy over the Danish cartoon controvesy.” Nadel, Guardian.co.uk

“Unfortunately, Stewart has changed somewhat since his younger days and is now only available in widescreen.” Tvc18, youtube

“I can’t stand his smuggy smug bastard smugface.” PES Fanboy, eurogamer.com

“I’ve gigged with him and he’s an arrogant twat. Maybe he thinks comedy should be challenging conventions and intelectually complex. Maybe he thinks comedy is a form of high art, perhaps there is a place for that. But there is also a place for comics who work fucking hard on their material and delivery and include Pull Back & Reveal’s and puns and all that stuff and just want to be FUNNY and make a living out of making people happy.” Japaneseboy, chortle.com

“Stewart Lee is a fat jealous cunt, he should be strangled.” Aceshigh, finalgear.com

“Is this supposed to be funny? It comes across as drawn-out tedious tripe.” Licensetodrive, Youtube

“This prick is about as funny as having a shit! What a loser! It’s like he’s bitching in the playground with the other ugly girls.” Chizmulu, Youtube

“Smug, unberable ranty bollocks.” Jah Lion, Guardian.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

“Stewart is a poor mans Ricky Gervais! If Stewart Lee was ib my garden I would tell him to fuck off.” Chrispugh, Youtube

“The most interesting thing about his stand-up is watching the audience. You will not see one person there laughing in a natural, spontaneous manner. It’s all ridiculous Liberals laughing when they think something is supposed to be funny. It’s genuinely cringe making. 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. “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”. The British Bill Hicks, without the swearing. A comedian who isn’t funny, followed by cunts that think they are brighter than everyone else and laugh way too loudly at the ‘jokes’ to show how much they get it. The Pied Cunter of Cuntlyn. Literally packed to bursting with cuntishness. The knobs in the business always describe him as ‘honest’ and having integrity, which actually means ‘useless unfunny shithead.’ Just the same as saying that an old biffer has a nice personality. Apparently he’s very popular amongst his peers on the comedy circuit. Thinking about it, it’s the same in any occupation really. The journeyman arseconker is generally liked because a) they’ve been trying and not getting anywhere for years and b) nobody feels vaguely threatened by them. So, it’s a case of ‘yeah, he’s alright him’ but when you examine why, it only highlights his uselessness. This boring cunts on the tv now, going on and on and on and on and not raising a single smile. Fuck off, you arsehat. I think he sees himself as the Morrissey of the comedy circuit. What a shitsplat. Lee has however developed a new style of niche comedy. He’s become so niche, he’s a complete non-entity and invisible to all but the biggest, most self absorbed pricks in society. He’s the ‘comic’ beloved by people without a sense of humour, that think he’s a bit niche and edgy. He’s just a good old fashioned cunt. I laughed more when I went for my va sectomy and the nurse suck a javelin like needle in my bollocks.” Ricardo, dontstartmeoff.com

“Talk about a pseudo-intellectual with a slow delivery and unfunny anecdotes. He’s also a smug, liberal, PC douche bag to boot.” Merriol, Youtube

“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

“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

“Stewart Lee went goes in a bar. he saw Joe Pasquale and joe Pasquale said Hi Stewart Lee how is your career as a successful telly comedian going ? and Stawert Lee said not well ,i only get telly work on the paramount comedy channel.Joe Pasquale said WELL FUCK OFF THEN STEWART LEE. CAME BACK WHEN YOUR A HOUSE HOLD NAMES!! wheres Richard Herring he was the funny one ,NOW PISS OFF.” Chrisspencerbarnes, Youtube

“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

“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. 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. 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. If a man’s style, presentation or material is so indeterminate that several interpretations c an 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). 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. Stewart Lee has never depreciated himself – in fact, with his gradual weight gain, I would describe him as stubbornly augmentative. 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. 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 di dn’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

“Am I the only person who doesn’t find Stewart Lee funny in the slightest?” Mr T Grady, Twitter

“Burn in Hell stuart lee. You are a scumbag.” Tristan2929, Youtube

“Stewart Lee. Jesus, what a lame muppet.” Radeeboi, Twitter

“What an absolute wanker, not funny at all. Attention seeking idiot.” Carlen, Youtube

“A very annoyed man who craves attention.” SK187Payback, Youtube

“Would rather scoop my eyes out with rusty spoons then watch him again.” Maxdaman19, Youtube

“What’s happened to Stewart Lee? He was hilarious back in the 90’s now he just sounds bitter.” Muppet135, Youtube

“Go fuck yourself ya cunt!” Warbrain88, Youtube

“Fuck this ELITIST-I’m-just-like-David-Cr­oss boring “comedian” that calls himself Stewart Lee.” Yourface, Youtube

“I think Stewart Lee’s about as funny as free falling into a wood chipper.” Cavwebmaster, Vauxhallownersnetwork

“Half a preacher, half an unfunny prick hiding behind unfunny sarcasm.” Diabolik, pistonheads.com

“I know this guy… not well… but I can in fact confirm that he is a cock ! I’ve spoken to him several times in the past at various get-together’s (although not recently) and he is a bit of a pillock! He used to go out with my wifes’ cousin. He came up a few times for Xmas and one or two other things. I found him to be a little condescending and a bit arrogant… I think it must be a thing with people who become famous, whereby they automatically think they are superior to you, just cos they’ve been on Telly… Anyway they’ve split up now and my wifes cousin seems a lot happier. I’d expect him to keep his stand-up routine seperate from day to day life, but then perhaps I’m expecting too much. I like his comedy, but as a person, he’s a bit of an arse.” MrBloefeldt, readytogo.com

“Stewart lee seems like hes stuck in a ‘right on’ era. Hes not as funny,cutting edge or clever as he probably thinks he is. He gets some things right but his deire to challenge modern life and society dont quite hit the spot and come over as both studenty and smug. He reminds me of that other ‘protesting’ comedian Mark Thomas. Allthough both are probably well intentioned.” Jackoscarsargeant, makeapost.com

“SL’s mastery of the English language and history has not made him funny, it appears to have just made him an arrogant twat. I’d rather listen to Chris Moyles than sit through Stewart Lee’s unfunny drivel.” Nexxxxeh, reddit.com

“Went to see this ‘funny’ guy last night. Funny he was not. Load of rubbish. Hardly anyone was laughing because his act is rubbish! I really fancied a good laugh to cheer my self up. Unfortunately I didn’t get it. His style is to bang on about something for ages and ages and then come back to it for ages and ages. It was like being stuck with a bore at a dinner party, one that you want to punch.” Denadainit, Sheffieldcityforum

“I’d rather hear some good arse jokes than endure Lee’s self satisfied smuggery…” Sparebub, Guardian.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

“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

“Didn’t laugh once and his smugness irritates the fuck out of me.” Foo, urban75.net

“Same old mis-informed deluded shite from the master of donkeys wank humour.” Anon, Marublog.net

“He was very disappointing when I saw him at the opera house about ten years ago. Gave the impression he couldn’t really be arsed.” Dr Kenneth Noise, Toontastic.net

“He’d be a lot funnier if he didn’t repeat the same parts over and over again, he’d be a lot funnier if he didn’t repeat the same parts over and over again in the buildup to the punch line Stewart Lee comedian on BBC2 would be a lot funnier if he didn’t repeat the same parts over and over again in the buildup to the punch line whilst telling his joke.” Toxic, Ush.net

“Looks like Morris out of the Smiths and is an equally unfunny fat dwarf.” Simonsays, Chortle

“To call Stewart Lee a comedian is fucking stretching it. He comes across as SUCH a cunt, so unfunny, so unoriginal, so needlessly offensive (still without being funny) and so prone to pointing out the bloody fucking obvious, in a manner which packs in all the charisma of a miscarried lamb, I don’t actually know how he’s got a career out of it. Stewart fucking Lee can fuck off, I hope I never see his ugly piggy little cunty slant-eyed face again, or hear his wretched, self-congratulating drawl ever again for that matter. The stout loathsome little twat.” Xnulian Rudho, westhamonline.com

“This guy is a complete cunt!” Straight86edge, Youtube

“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

“Sooooooooooooooooooooo fucking shit there all laughing at nothing he keeps repeating him self what a joke.” Dedringer2, Youtube

“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

“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

“Worst comedian ever. Hes a fuckin bore.” Zacfanere, Youtube

“Wow, this hack has some balls ripping into Russell Brand – a far sharper and more original comedian than he is.” Kentrel2, Youtube

“His comedy schtick seems to be a chippy, elitist sneer at anyone who doesn’t share his Public School/Oxbridge background and he has no sense of comic timing whatsoever. Watching his act, I found myself checking my phone to see if anyone had texted me, even though I knew they hadn’t.
Lee’s audience is full of the right on sector of society, his act is feeding and reinforcing their prejudices, much the same as some of the ultra right-wing American comedians who have been around in the last few years. It’s a cheap shot, which guarantees him laughs from an audience bound to agree with him, and it’s much easier than having to write decent gags.” Amie8, finalgear.com

“Smug as fuck. Who is this douche?” AAAAGordon, Youtube

“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

“He drags stuff out so long to the point of tedium. Can only watch about five minutes, laugh, then I’m fast asleep.” Cpfc.org

“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

“It’s been a lot longer than 3 years since Stewart Lee was even remotely funny. You couldn’t find a more tiresome, self-regarding twat masquerading as a comedian.” Chronos, Guardian.co.uk

“I hate stewert lee. He thinks he’s funny but he’s not.” Megsey1995, Youtube

“This piece of disgusting shit isn’t even close to funny…” Rock3tCat, Youtube

“His voice sent me to sleep in about three minutes.” Confuesed Proud, Youtube

“I think there is something there but he does need to be reined in and told to write a bit more funny stuff rather than the repitition which started to rankle after a while. I admire anyone who has obviousy spent as much time with Bill Hicks material as Lee has but he doesn’t have the (seeming) natural physicallity and economy that BH had.” Hoonaloochieb, Eastdulwichforum

“Sickening to watch. Nice how some people can claim the moral highground whilst also being dreadful human beings.” EFG9000, Youtube

“Being just a little bit younger than Stewart Lee, I’ve always felt like he’s somehow the king of the musty self-righteous twisters whose bobbing nape-over-Crombie I’ve been forced to stare up at my whole life long.” Benjamin Rollanson, Amazon

“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

“Leftie nobhead hates god big surprise!” Araregoodguy, Youtube

“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

“Absoluetly shite. Probably one of the most unfunny “comedians” I’ve ever seen. Didn’t even make me crack a smile.” Leeuk66, Youtube

“Stewart Lee was 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

“Wow, what a not-funny and stupid performance.” Chailzard, Youtube

“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

“His delivery is fucking putrid. It’d send a chinchilla to sleep during the night hours. For a better deadpan comic, seek out Jack Dee.” Vizitron3, Youtube

“Non-eyed pig faced repeat offender chancer who confuses a cock-tail of contrived pauses, volume shifts and repetition for true wit. I repeat, not funny.” Jockass, Holymoly.com

“What a truly smug, self-righteous, unfunny prick Stewart Lee is. He’s also a thoroughly unpleasant bloke he is in real life. Ever wondered why you’re not on telly much anymore? It’s because you were such an insufferable **** to all the people you worked with you utter arse.
My name’s Rich, I’m 30, straight and a Leo. I studied film and media production at Sheffield Hallam University and I spend my time working as a freelance Film Producer and sitting on funding panels for the UK Film Council, Film4, Momentum Pictures and Working Title.” Donuticus, thestudentroom.co.uk

“He’d be a lot funnier if he didn’t repeat the same parts over and over again, he’d be a lot funnier if he didn’t repeat the same parts over and over again in the buildup to the punch line. Stewart Lee comedian on BBC2 would be a lot funnier if he didn’t repeat the same parts over and over again in the buildup to the punch line whilst telling his joke.” Toxic, Ush.net

“Comedy is so subjective but nevertheless… Self-indulgent, dull, superannuated indie boy who takes himself way too seriously, which is not really a good quality for a comic. He’s the comedian people say they like, just to appear more intelligent than the rest of us, a bit like those student union bores I remember from the ’80s who seemed to think all indie music was automatically more radical than pop when it was often more conservative. What I object to most is his obvious envy and resentment for comedians more successful (and usually more funny) than he is. Ahem, sorry for the rant – I just can’t bear this ‘credible’ comedian reputation he’s been uncritically allowed to cultivate!” Richjw, digitalspy.com

“One thing i dont get…why do people find stewart lee funny? Is it his lack of comic timing, monotonous delivery, predictable topics or something else?” Oscar, NME.com

“Personaly I can’t see this guys humor… and I like Frankie Boyle!” Captain70s, finalgear.com

“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

“I have very strong reservations about uber-smug unfunny Stewart Lee.” Karile Marks, Twitter

“This pc cunt only appeals to cunts with no sense of humour who need to be told what to laugh at. Claims on his website to be “officially the 41st funniest comedian”. No you pile of shit… you`ve never been funny but you may well be in the top 5 biggest “comic” cunts in England. Cunt!” Despoileruvcunts, cuntscorner.com

“S Lee comes across as an unfunny cunt – he was a twat when he came out with his floppy hair and he’s still a cunt now he’s fat and full of hate.” Claretbadger, westhamonline.com

“This guy is as funny as a steaming pile of shit. What a wanker.” Pete1839, Youtube

“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

“Stewart lee is probably that smug white skinned pc cunt who spends half his conversations calling everyone out on racism when he’s got no ethnic mates. most myu mates are asian, we tell loads of racist jokes to each other 4 a laugh, and i’ve been called out on it by so many white people who remind my of lee, all my mates in question and the others i know dont give a fuck. real racism stewart lee dont know themeaning of it.” Hjastroi, Youtube

“This guy must be so hard to get along with in real life.” Deanocfc, Youtube

“Drivel. A series of cheap shots by someone I’ve never heard where both his and the audiences hearts aren’t in it. He’s found a massive mine of rhetorical middleclass self-loathing but is only taking the topsoil. Really, listen to the audience. Not exactly falling about are they? A little bit concerned, perhaps introspective, wondering if Mr Lee will hit a target that really IS US?” Lonesometwin, Guardian.co.uk

“Stewart Lee preaching again. Yawn.” Plumjam, Youtube

“Bitter fat unfunny comedian.” Jen, Vancouver, Dailymail.co.uk

“Stewart Lee wants to replace the ethnically homogenous and relativily stable british society with a totalitarian multicultural PC society full of strife and conflict. PC has gone wild, its time to stop this leftist madness.” Dringles, Youtube

“Miserable fecker with an annoying delivery.” blythy, readytogo.net

“Lee & Herring used to have an bright young fan base looking optimistically to the future, but I guess where he`s headed for now is small club & publand with a dwindling audience that just wants to relive the nostalgia of their student days from yesteryear. The Lee fans that I hung around with in the 90`s used to be bright & a laugh & you could debate with them in good humour. It seems what`s listening to him now is a crowd of kidults who what to regress into their past & wrap themselves up in the cosy quilt of yesteryear. Pseudo-phoney student bar talk, sitting around a table with 1/2 a pint wearing donkey-jackets, been there done it & bought the t-shirt. Lee’s not satarizing anything here but trying to re-live old battles from the 1980s in a tired routine. Meanwhile Stu`s stuck in 1988 having a go at Littlejohn, Jim Davidson (when`d you last hear fro m HIM? – lol) & advocating the benefits of P.C. Let`s embrace the reality: Lee & Herring, Iannucci & Morris = Generation Underachievement. Time to look elsewhere for laughs & some insights. As for Lee not being concerned with breaking into the mainstream – show me an artist of any sort that doesn`t want as big an audience for their material as possible & I`ll show you a fibber. If Lee doesn`t create better material than this he doesn`t deserve to get to a bigger stage. I hadnt seen him for a while, & thought the “Comedy Vehicle” was good in parts, but I was alarmed by this routine as recent material. It`s old hat & sounds like mid 1980`s stuff. Next he`ll be having a go Thatcherism. If Lee can`t develop new material he`ll end up as a back number pretty quickly, playing only the nostalgia circuit. I like Lee, but this is out of date early leftie mid-1980`s student stuff that`s tired & anachronistic. He needs to move with the times or he`ll become an act caught in a generational rut only talking to itself like Freddie Starr ended up. With this haircut, he`s even starting to look a bit like him.” Kcirdrab , Youtube

“If, after watching Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, impressionable muppets who watch Kevin Smith films every weekend believe that laughing at Dan Brown and J.K. Rowling automatically makes them very clever, then – somewhat ironically given the oft-missionary nature of Lee’s stand-up – we’re no further on; indeed, the bar for acknowledged intelligence may have been lowered further. That is, if Lee has read the works of William Blake, then why not attempt to perform some truly intellectual comedy about those? If anyone can do it, he can. Instead, though, he opts to pander to an advertisably middle-class crowd who might dip into the new Ian McEwan or Ali Smith book when it comes out, rather than to a genuinely academic demographic. Is he afraid of encroaching on a demographic amongst which he would he a disciple rather than a doyen? Or his he just settled where he is? Possibly a bit of both; possibly neither – but it isn’t good enough to just offer a few token criticisms of the, a nd then to go, ‘But it was still better than almost any other comedy programme on TV at the moment,’ which I can confidently predict will be the case with many broadsheet reviews of the episode.
The flipside must be considered, however: is the Hairyapplefeed’s more negative review of Comedy Vehicle not perhaps some sort of subconscious dick-measuring contest which resinscribes the same small-town elitism of which it has been critical throughout, an elaborate way of saying, ‘I liked Stewart Lee before everybody else did, in the same way that I liked Biffy Clyro, or the Coen Brothers’? No, it isn’t. Here’s why: I’ve heard Stewart Lee discuss, in a non-comic forum, the sexualization of Christ in Old and Middle English literature; I’ve heard him quote at will from Milton to illustrate salient points; and I’ve heard him craft a 75-minute joke which intertwines religious fundamentalism, ideological prescriptivism and Joe Pasquale. He has it in him to perform something like verbal magic. He does not need to sully himself encouraging smug laughter from people who aren’t very clever, really, at a half-arsed book release from So Solid Crew’s publicity department. It was like Louis Theroux or internet blogger Maddox at their smug, soft-targeting worst, but nothing like Chris Morris at his knuckle-nearing best. That isn’t the right order of things, now, is it? Ironically, given his well-documented love for The Fall, episode 1 of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle represented a similar turn towards easy street to that of which Fall frontman Mark E. Smith’s recent autobiography was culpable. Both relied on an audience indulgence produced by past glories; both remained very firmly in a comfort zone (surprising, given arch-experimenter Armando Iannucci’s involvement in production); and both were very, very minor addenda to generally impressive bodies of work. Shame, that.” Hairyappleman, Hairryapplefeedblogspot

“He’s from Shropshire, maybe that’s why he’s a smug unfunny cunt.” Tte, ush.net

“I think i will lis10 to chris moyles, wots the differNce? They’re both self-satisfiyd arseholes but moyles is mor likly 2 raze a smile.? This is not funny, you can delete my comments, but you can’t delete the truth.” Seppo2009, Youtube

“His “acclaimed” show is so bad that it could case peoples hearts to stop through utter dispair! ” Adam, Dorset, Dailymail.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

“I’ve never in my life, wanted to punch someone as much as I do Stewart Lee after seeing his ‘Top Gear’ stand up thing. AWFUL he is.” MichaelaSHDK, Youtube

“He comes across as the oldest sneering student in the room everytime I see him. ” Graham Casey, Chortle.co.uk

“Stewart Lee is just word soup. Throwing together buzzwords doesn’t make an argument you fucking idiot. Political correctness is genocide against white nations perpetrated by Jews. This is your argument, I distilled it so people could see just how moronic you are.” Kobaltchris, Youtube

“FUCK ME! What a massive fat cunt he’s turned into.. he’s huuuuuge!!!!” Thepopesmokesdope, officeonline.com

“May I sudgest dropping a piano on this guy? Prefarrably one made out of lead…….” Cowboy, finalgear.com

“He is such a boring comedian! The only shred of comic value I got out of this was laughing at a grown man making an idiot out of himself on stage.” Callisto, Youtube

“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

“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

“Stewart Lee basically massages the prejudices of Guardian readers to make them feel better about themselves.” Unecom, 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

“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

“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 is a borderline alcoholic comedian, who aggressively taunts and down right insults society.” Chong Nhu, martialartsplanet.com

“He’s like the boring guy in the pub. I have seen him at the fringe in Edinburgh, and he is the only comedian ive ever seen who died on his arse so badly that he sat at the front of the stage and said something like “im sorry, this isnt working , is it?” Davetay, Youtube
(This was an intentional piece of the show, which was performed each night for 6 months. I was acting.)

“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

“Stewart Lee supports the dangerous ideology of political correctness- that makes him very unfunny.” Culave, Youtube

“Stewart Lee does come across as a preachy, sanctimonious berk an is actually quite patronising to the audience” Thenewnumbertwo, Guardian.co.uk

“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 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

“I do dislike the way that he has assigned himself the role of Comedian in chief and conscience/ gatekeeper of ‘Alternative Comedy’.? 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

“Without doubt the world’s least funny comedian.” Pierre 3030, Youtube

“Stewart Lee: You are not funny. Almost a Dane Cook level of NOT funny.” May Pescante, Twitter

“Another marxist idiot who doesn’t realize he’s the one to be wiped out.” Linxx88, Youtube

“What an unfunny cunt. He just isnt funny – hes incredibly dull. The problem with stuart lee is that he’s A. He’s not as clever, original or interesting as he thinks he is. B. He just isnt very funny, C. He wasnt funny to start with anyway. Just shit. What a pretentious wanker. Sixth form art schooll ‘humour’ which thinks its more clever than it is. Shit. He keeps doing the same tired sixth form iroinic ‘liberal’ shite. He doesnt even come close to Mcintyre in wit, entertainment or popularity. Pleeeeease!!! What he does is basicly sixth form college humour that thinks its alternative, clever and a bit on the edgy/social commentary side. But its just predicatble. And just not funny. I think he thinks hes cleverer and more insightful than he actually is, very simillar to richard herring. And no i dont find al murray, roy chubby brown or jim davidson funny either. Incredibly dull sixth form humour.” Chrisjoneschrisjones, Youtube

“I’ve given him two chances and fail to see why he’s classed as comedy. I think I’m meant to have laughed but didn’t. If he’s trying to shock or offend he’s failing at that too. It’s just painfully unfunny. I just feel slightly sorry for him.” Tintin, UKTV.co.uk

“God this is just not funny …. you have to be naturally funny to be a comedian … not just stand there speaking lines.” Boygeniuz, Youtube

“Lee, great comedian? He has never made me laugh; but then I don’t find totalitarians funny. The joke wears off after the first ten million corpses.” JoeSoap, the UKLibertarian.co.uk

“Drags out that not routine far too long. Presumably to fill space in this dead, lifeless, self-important show.” DavidUK84, Youtube

“The jokes were dragged out for too long. He has got fat and old. I miss the days of this morning with richard not judy.” Quincy, Chrismoyles.net

“Stewart Lee isnt even funny. He’s disgusting and i hope they ban him from performing. The only thing funny about him, is his looks.” Hammondx3, richardhammond.net

“Personally I find this way too laboured and smug and most importantly not particularly funnny given it’s his career. Its natural not clever clever.??? Very vogue at the moment with the Guardian readers. Can’t do wrong apparently until the next great middle class wannne be different joy thing comes along.” Johnanthonyp, Youtube

“I have just returned from viewing the sensation that is Stewart Lee! Now I am being ironic and sarcastic. There is nothing sensational about Stewart Lee. The reviews I have read have put him somewhere between a comedy genius and a funny grumpy old man. To be honest he isn’t and I would advise anyone who isn’t a fan to not bother seeing his show on a whim.
His innane ramblings are neither informed, funny, ironic, or angry. Everything is forced in his delivery, his jokes come at a rate of 1 every 8 mins 40 seconds, and even they are only of sniggering quality. He specialises in a type of story that apparently reflect his intelligence and wit, instead I ended up feeling sorry for his wife and son who have to spend Sunday afternoon with someone who thinks they are funny.
I originally thought I was being obtuse in the first 10 minutes of the show, as a couple of people around me quite literally burst with side splitting laughter to jokes that were so innane I was wondering if I was too stupid to understand. Then I started to think maybe the manager of the joint had got a Stewart Lee mask and given it to the stage hand and told him to get out there and do his best, due to the inappropriate, forced and unfunny delivery. Very disappointed.” Dino, spoonfed.com

“He’s as funny as cow sh1t…” Jeff Faa Faa, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk

“Reminds me of David Brent. What a sad middle aged twat.” 001908, Youtube

“So I was persuaded by someone to go and see Stuart Lee, one half of former comedy duo Lee and Herring last night but it ended in bitter disappointment. ??So, to any Scousers that might be tempted into parting with some hard-earned, I just wanted to know what you’d be letting yourselves in for. ” MBE, redandwhitecop.com

“What is all this buzz about this fat old man? I don’t think I’ve ever found a comedian funny from south of Derby. This jerks frm the f-ing midlands so he shed have sum NORTHERN SOUL in his set. But its like a rant. Where are the jokes? Nothing he talking about happen to me. Ever.” Cardiffwilly, Youtube

“Went on too long and his moaning just made him look like a cock. Yeah, used to be funny. Shouda stuck to radio 4” Fishlick, dogsonacid.com

“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 c*nt. Never mind think he was funny. 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 tw*t somehow raises their own “status”. Hs face says it all really – he’s got a twat face.” Voiceofreason, totalfootballforums.co.uk

“Not as clever, or as funny as he thinks he is, really just smug and elitist, with the odd laugh as a byproduct.” Firetotheworks, dooyou.co.uk

“People who like Stewart Lee are arrogant, self righteous cunts.” 32Wallace, Youtube

“Its his whole intelligent bullsht that grates on me, extending joke after joke to the point of fucking tedium to prove a point.” Dark Soldier, forums.nextgen.biz

“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. I was having such a lovely day then someone reminded me of the unfortunate ongoing existence of this unutterably smug, self-satisfied, student-friendly arsewhistle, which has left me wanting to carve the word ‘Nicobobinus’ into my wrist with the sharp end of my front door key. Comedy for people whose idea of a fun night out is a glass of lemonade and a game of darts. His audiences always contain klaxon-heads who bray with inane “I GET IT!” laughter. Twats. Another total cunt who’s apparently a genius. Fuck him. What a patronising, condescending, smug, worthy, self-righteous tool he is. He’s a fur-lined, ocean going cunt. The alarm bells should be ringing in the Lee household, as he’s turned into a fat, unfunny bastard with a pretentious quif who is now more Miss than Hit – and we all know wh at that did for former edgy comedian Alexi Sayle’s career. I don’t like him anymore coz he looks like Mark Lamaar with a pie factory problem. Rank. ” Jimmy Vespa, dontstartmeoff.com

“Is he drunk?” Jobe129, Youtube

“No, but the audience must be drunk to laugh at him.” Capitalsho, Youtube

“I’ve tried to listen to Stewart, but because i didn’t go to Private School & Oxford, i feel he has a air of Superiorty (sorry if thats spelt wrong). No bodys opion or veiws matter. Thats what you call a MIDDLE CLASS TWAT……………..!” Rightwing1969, Youtube

“I saw his shows was described as comedy and it looked like some sort of stand up but I watched it and couldn’t for the life of me find the comical part of the show. Perhaps it was some sort of ironic comedy thats only funny cos its really crap but I just didn’t get it.” Dr Boris Gobshite, totalfootballforums.co.uk

“How fat does Stuart Lee look. That jacket’s not doing him any favours either, it looks like it’s gonna burst open at any point…… he looked really fat in that bloody suit.” AndyB, Chrismoyles.net

“Michael McIntyre is funnier. The Stewart Lee cult are driven by nothing but jelousy.” Rattlesnakemeuk, Youtube

“You know…the cunt. The shit haired, monotonous cunt. The cunt who repeats things….in a monotone. You know, the repetitive, liberal cunt. The monotonous cunt, repeating his liberal jokes, over and over…repeating them…in a monotonous way. You know…the smug, liberal cunt…” Stewart Lee, donstartmeoff.com

“You really call this crap intelligent? Juvenile adult/humour. Stupid. ” Finnsia, Youtube

“I’m a comedian and I’ better than this guy, no wonder he’s unknown in the UK, it’s just not up to standard – it’s tired, derivative, vapid and tedious – come on Stewart. You’ve been doing the same routine since 1993.” Rainbowchild8888, Youtube

“I disagree with Stewart Lee. I believe morality is derived from our evolution, so it is fixed – or at least, hasn’t changed since ancestral times. Perception of what is morally right may fluctuate throughout our history but I think there is a rational and absolute morality at the core of it.” Svelter, Youtube

“Stewart Lee has found fame and fortune as the genius behind Jerry Springer The Opera.”, Toby Young, Spectator, 2005

“I’ve always thought of Stewart Lee’s comedy as doing the opposite of what really good comedy should do. He essentially uses comedy to browbeat people in to agreeing with his rather dogmatic left wing political points of view. It’s as though he’s essentially taking what is the sort of prevailing politically correct dogma of his generation and aggressively ridiculing anyone who doesn’t sign up to it, using comedy as an instrument to enforce conformity, not as a means of subversion. He’s a red faced man jabbing his finger in my face because I don’t agree with him. He may as well be playing to an empty room, for all the concessions he makes to the audience. His refusal to concede to the audience is part of an ongoing desire to be taken seriously, but someone who wants to be taken so seriously is quite hard to take seriously.” Toby Young, A Good Read, BBC Radio 4, March 2011

“Pundits on the Right like to imagine we live in a PC dictatorship, but the fact remains that …. the only time you ever see PC mentioned is when people are complaining about PC. For money. And usually on the very publicly funded radio stations that these dicks believe are involved in a politically correct conspiracy to silence them.” Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate

“He seems to have spent an awful lot of time looking for negative comments about himself. As he’s going through one of his most successful periods in a long time, I assume this is a desperate attempt to convince himself that he is still an ‘outsider’.” Danger Man, cookedandbombed.co.uk

“Morrisey’s piling on the pounds.” RonMexico121

“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, don’t 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 , don’t 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 , don’t 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, don’t start me off.com

“I had to stop watching that at 45 seconds. Really couldn’t listen to that monotone voice anymore.” Monkey, don’t start me off.com

“Jealous that your comedy career didn’t go anywhere Lee?” Anonymous, don’t 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

“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

“ 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

“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

“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

“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

“a sneering tosser” Rowing Rob, Guardian.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

“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

“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, Dailyamil.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

“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

“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

“i think stewart lee should be banned from actually being a so called “comedian”.” Sophie, Spalding, 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

“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

“What a SICK man Stewart Lee is. My condolences to his family and friends.” Sharon, Shoreham, 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!!!” Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk

“Please Mr Lee do humanity a favor and scuttle back under your rock” Charles, North Carolina, 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

“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

“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

“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

“Stewart Lee: speaks slowly, acts smarmy and looks confused” Speakslowly, drownedinsound.com

“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

“Lee is just a fat Rob Newman without the melancholy surrealism.” Shatterface, liberalconspiracy.org

“One man I would love to beat with a shit covered cricket bat.” Joycey, readytogo.net

“miserable fecker with an annoying delivery” blythy, readytogo.net
“Come back Mr Lee when you have achieved 1% of what Ben Elton has achieved.” Redandwhiterob, readytogo.net

“his smug attitude and the fact that he comes accross like a grade A bellend makes him unwatchable for me.” Joycey33, readytogo.net

“The biggest pile of crap I have ever seen! Boring and unfunny. Childish. Made an absolute fool of himself.” – Lianne, Chortle.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

“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

“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

“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

“He is NOT funny… In what way is this man a comedian?” Mr Angry, bbc.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

“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

“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

“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

“Stewart Lee is crap I’m afraid.” Balboa, 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..” cocianemidget, 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

“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.uk

“Hsounds 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

“Didn’t laugh once and his smugness irritates the fuck out of me.” Foo, urban75.net

“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

“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

“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

“He drags stuff out so long to the point of tedium. Can only watch about five minutes, laugh, then I’m fast asleep.” Cpfc.org

“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 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

“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

“Am I the only person who doesn’t find Stewart Lee funny in the slightest?” Mr T Grady, Twitter

“Went to see this ‘funny’ guy last night. Funny he was not. Load of rubbish. Hardly anyone was laughing because his act is rubbish! I really fancied a good laugh to cheer my self up. Unfortunately I didn’t get it. His style is to bang on about something for ages and ages and then come back to it for ages and ages. It was like being stuck with a bore at a dinner party, one that you want to punch.” Denadainit, Sheffieldcityforum

“I hate Stewart Lee with a passion. He’s like Ian Huntley to me.” Wharto15, Twitter

“I have very strong reservations about uber-smug unfunny Stewart Lee” Karile Marks, Twitter

“Stewart Lee – not funny. Just putting that out there.” Commodore Dan, Twitter

“Still time to vote for @Herring1967 in the Chortle Awards! Don’t vote for Stewart Lee, though. He’s got enough stuff already.” Piccadillo, Twitter
“Slow, boring delivery from the smuggest cunt on? them all” johnwinfield367676” Youtube

“comedy for ‘up their? own arse’ ponces.” markzilla6969, Youtube

“what an unfunny cunt”? chrisjoneschrisjones, Youtube

“a fraud and a total? unfunny tit.” Bosco239, youtube

“Lee has his moments, but a lot of people like him because his comedy gives the *impression* there is something sophisticated and high brow about it and you need a higher intellect to understand it. It makes pretentious lefty dickheads feel good about themselves and superior to others. You’ll see the same ‘you just? haven’t got the intelligence to get it’ used on all his vids to any criticism.” Underground906, Youtube

“He keeps doing the same tired sixth form iroinic ‘liberal’ shite. he doesnt even come close to Mcintyre in wit, entertainment? or popularity” chrisjoneschrisjones, Youtube

“Incredibly dull sixth form humour?” chrisjoneschrisjones, Youtube

“Pleeeeease!!! What he does is basicly sixth form college humour that thinks its alternative ,clever and a bit on the edgy/social commentary side. But its? just predicatble and just not funny. I think he thinks hes cleverer and more insightful than he actually is, very simillar to richard herring”, chrisjoneschrisjones, Youtube

“Has anybody noticed that this Stewart Lee guy is poo’ing a massive halo out of his backside? How the ‘left’? take the moral ground hey! Peace.” Pittounikos, Youtube

“one of those deluded self righteous liberal cunts who choose to be blind to certain issues” Luke Griffiths, Youtube

“what a wanker I heard he and satan have gay sex together then they? go to th local primary school together and pick up kids” xXCelticwarriorXx1, Youtube

“Lee’s? always been about as funny as getting spit roasted by Little and Large. I wish he’d fuck off, the unfunny cunt. He’s a cunt” Withnail555, Youtube

“Watching English liberal atheists, like Mr Lee, ridiculing American Creationists is? a bit like watching someone pick a fight with an asthmatic fat kid from the opposite side of a very busy road. One word, more pertinent to these shores; Islam! You fucking third-rate Bill Hicks wannabe coward!” Noonday100, Youtube

“Stewart Lee seems to put together A and B and C in unexpected ways. This means comedians might find it funny. But the general public would find utterly unfunny. To give an analogy; Picasso could actually paint really really well. Almost photographic quality. It was only when he broke all the “rules” of painting that he became famous though. And people said he was a genius. But if all you saw was his messed up paintings of women with a nose where their ear should be, you could be forgiven for saying “This guy can’t paint. Why is he famous?” Stewart Lee, I think, might be the Picasso of comics. He didn’t make me laugh. But professional comics can probably appreciate it, and laugh or whatever. Of course, that could all be rubbish. Maybe he’s hilarious and I just don’t get it. But I don’t personally see much difference between a guy who studiously and ironically pretends not to be funny and pretends to have a comedic routine fall apart on stage and pretends to restart the show… and a guy who simply is not funny and who’s comedic routine falls apart and has to restart the show.” John R Finnan, Amazon

“Watching Stewart Lee certainly is a break from comedy. The last funeral I went to was genuinely far funnier than Lee’s gig.” Janean Patience, Twitter