With typical aloofness and moral superiority, Stewart Lee unveiled some new material, much of it about the ‘faint praise’ doled out when Channel 4 named him the 41st best ever stand-up.
Mentioning it, he admits, affords him a rare chance to combine ‘boastfulness and humility’, but crucially it gives him the chance to pick apart the list show and its familiar contributors with typical forensic tenacity.
Also in his deadly accurate sights was that more contentious Channel 4 offering, Celebrity Big Brother, and Russell Brand’s attempts to apologise for the racism on the show. Strong, distinctive, material like this augers well for the new solo show Lee is taking to Edinburgh.
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