Stewart Lee Live in Glasgow - March 2010 Geeks.co.uk - By Kevin Gilday - March 19th, 2010

Let’s start off with a simple fact – Stewart Lee is a genius. This is indisputable. Anyone who likes stand-up comedy, knows anything about stand-up comedy or even has the slightest hint of intelligence knows this. Unfortunately for Stewart Lee this equates to a fraction of the population roughly comparable to the amount of pandas…

Glasgow International Comedy Festival Citizens Theatre ★★★★ - March 2010 The Scotsman - By Jay Richardson - March 18th, 2010

FRANKIE Boyle would have you believe that comics hitting 40 lose their potency, the righteous anger that compels them to mock the Queen’s anatomy on comedy panel shows. At 41, Stewart Lee is not about to let this lie and meticulously dissects the Glaswegian’s assertion, as he does everything else in this show, with playful…

Glasgow International Comedy Festival Citizens Theatre ★★ - March 2010 Herald Scotland - By Marianne Gunn - March 16th, 2010

Either Stewart Lee has been having a bad year or some people have really got under his skin. Criticising Frankie Boyle early in an over-long show, was a brave move in Glasgow, considering the former Mock the Week star is playing to a slightly larger theatre venue for the rest of the week. Frankie’s sin,…

Comedy, controversy and more comedy - March 2010 Varsity Magazine - By Ed Kiely - March 5th, 2010

When I ask him about his status as an oft-cited inspiration for comedians, Stewart Lee is mystified. “I don’t understand it. My niece showed me in Russell Brand’s book where he cites me as an influence.” The cynicism towards critical plaudits is genuine. On his publicity, alongside quotes attesting to the genius of his stand-up…

Lee makes the most of second chance - February 2010 East Anglian Daily Times - By Wayne Savage - February 27th, 2010

“I’M sort of past the age at which people get discovered and yet I seem to have been given a second chance, so I’ve been very lucky,” says comedian, writer and director Stewart Lee. He’s performed stand-up since he was 20, contributed to various BBC radio comedy shows and directed the Mighty Boosh’s 1999 breakthrough…

Stewart Lee Interview – The List - February 2010 The List - By Brian Donaldson - February 25th, 2010

In his new show, Stewart Lee compares himself to a raft of personalities who appear to have let themselves go: Ray Liotta, Morrissey, KD Lang and Terry Christian among them. In the flesh, 41-year-old Lee might be barely recognisable from the comedic waif who, alongside stand-up mucka Richard Herring, snarled and sneered at life’s pomposities…