Badly Mapped World – Clever Anecdotery Gets Lost ★★ - August 2000 The List - By Mark Robertson - August 17th, 2000

The phrase ‘you can’t fault them for trying’ is sadly inapplicable for Stewart Lee. Once a roaring, venom-spitting demon whose cynical world view was something to behold, he seems a lacklistre shadow of his former self. His new show sees him meander the planet with a clutch of apologetic anecdotes which are delivered with the…

PREVIEW: Badly Mapped World - August 2000 The List - By Ross Holloway - August 3rd, 2000

Never one for eschewing the big topics, Stewart Lee’s fourteenth festival show on the trot covers pretty much the whole damn shooting match. Badly Mapped World is a strange travelogue packed with studied and beguiling humour. Behind a self-depricating manner lurks honed comic intelligence that sneaks up behind you rather than hitting you squarely in…