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How I Escaped My Certain Fate is an excellent book ★★★★★ - July 2010 The Metro - By Mickey Noonan - July 27th, 2010
Book review: Stewart Lee’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life And Deaths Of A Stand-Up Comedian (Faber and Faber, £12.99) gives readers a fascinating glimpse into how much heart and soul one man puts into making people laugh. Stewart Lee’s analytical, patience-testing brand of pedantic comedy has earned him legendary status on the…
A master of withering reasonableness - July 2010 The Irish Times - By Stephen Dixon - July 24th, 2010
How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life & Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian By Stewart Lee, Faber & Faber, 378pp. £12.99 STEWART Lee on the 2005 London Al-Qaeda bombings: “Who are they, these inhuman bombers that strike at the very heart of our society with no respect for human life, without even the courtesy…
How I Escaped My Certain Fate ★★★★ - July 2010 List Magazine - By Jay Richardson - July 22nd, 2010
Like Ezra Pound’s notes on The Waste Land if they’d been more cutting, self-critical and in awe of Johnny Vegas, Stewart Lee here transcribes and annotates the three stand-up shows that brought him back from disillusioned retirement in 2001 to his position as one of the UK’s most revered struggling comedians. From conception through to…
This Summer, I Will Mostly Be Reading… - July 2010 Caught By The River - By Andrew Male - July 14th, 2010
It’s not culled from the world of nature but what I’m reading at the moment, which I wished I’d saved for a sylvan glade somewhere, is ‘How I Escaped My Certain Fate’ (Faber & Faber) by the comedian Stewart Lee. Ostensibly, it’s but three transcriptions of Lee’s stand-up routines from the past ten years, in…