FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF STEWART LEE - February 2017 February 6th, 2017

Get Me In Tout Alert There are tickets on sale for my Glasgow gig via the illegal touts at GetMeIn in Row S. If they are bought, the ticketholders will be personally thrown out by me. NEW LONDON CONTENT PROVIDER DATES Because all the London Leicester Sq Content Provider dates sold out here is another…

Razor-sharp Lee is at his scathing best - February 2017 Oxford Times - By Tim Hughes - February 3rd, 2017

Stewart Lee comes on stage, gazes around in mild amusement and shakes his head. He has barely uttered a word, nor heard our reaction, and yet he has already formed an opinion of his audience – and he is not impressed. Or at least, he is pretending not to be impressed – which is, of…

Master of the meta performance has us in stitches - January 2017 Oxford Daily Info - By Clare Dodd - January 31st, 2017

Imagine a sold-out show without a single person in the audience. To be famous enough for ticket touts to buy your seats, but not so famous that people will pay six times the asking price to sit it them – that’s Stewart Lee’s dream. Unfortunately for Lee, virtually all the sold-out seats were filled last…

Stewart Lee reignites his love of Oxford with a week-long residency at the Playhouse - January 2017 Oxford Times - By Marc Evans - January 27th, 2017

IT’S 30 years since he was a student in the city, but Oxford is still very much home territory for Stewart Lee. Lee, whose comedy divides audiences like few others, is reigniting his love affair with the Dreaming Spires when he plays a week of his latest show, Content Provider, at the Playhouse – the…

Fire and brimstone, mate - January 2017 Times Literary Supplement - By MICHAEL CAINES - January 25th, 2017

In this era of alternative facts and fake news it is important to state the undeniable truth of the matter. Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle was one of the funniest television programmes ever, period, as Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer would surely put it. Or rather: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle was one of the funniest television…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee Jan 17 - January 2017 January 11th, 2017

A merrie new year to ye all. What a terrible year 2016 was. This year will be worse, I expect. Never mind, see the cultural panaceas I am pushing. NEW LONDON CONTENT PROVIDER DATES Because all the London Leicester Sq Content Provider dates sold out here is another three month block of the SAME SHOW…