Granite City Crowds Are Rowdiest - October 2009 Evening Express - By Laurna Robertson - October 10th, 2009

Stewart Lee: Protests cost me millionaire status - October 2009 Get Hampshire - October 8th, 2009

IF YOU’VE not heard anything from Stewart Lee since his 90’s television work, you might be surprised to learn his recent comedy is blasphemous. That’s according to fundamentalist Christians at least, who did not enjoy his ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’. The show depicted American chatshow host Springer descending into hell and Jesus, Satan, the Virgin…

Stewart Lee, comedy for adults only - October 2009 Worthing Herald - October 6th, 2009

IF You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One is the provocative title for Stewart Lee’s tour which brings the comedian to Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre on Wednesday, October 7, at 8pm. It’s an adults-only show from the co-writer of Jerry Springer the Opera and comes inspired by an altercation in a high street coffee…

Cherwell Magazine Interview - October 2009 Cherwell Student Magazine - October 1st, 2009

The interview gets off to a bad start. I want to talk to Stewart Lee about his ultra dry delivery and the layered ironic nature of this stand-up, and tell him that a friend of mine didn’t find his new show very funny. “Why not?” he asks. “That’s not a very nice thing to say.…

Hate All Popular Culture - September 2009 The Times - By Dominic Maxwell - September 28th, 2009

What’s eating Stewart Lee? Over the past five years, he has made himself the most essential stand-up comedian in the country, first with a stunning trio of tours that began life at the Edinburgh Fringe, then with the return this year to BBC Two of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. It was his first big bout…

Stewart Lee on his Comedy Vehicle - March 2009 The Sunday Times - By Stephen Armstrong - March 15th, 2009

Stewart Lee, widely regarded as one of the UK’s most influential live performers by comedians from big names such as Ricky Gervais to newcomers such as Josie Long, ended his stand-up career in 2000 shortly after a gig in Fulham where a bloke kept shouting: “Tell more jokes! We’ve paid to hear jokes!” “I thought,…