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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,…
The barnacle of British comedy - March 2009 The Guardian - By Leeanne Stewart - March 14th, 2009
On Monday, the grey haired comedian Stewart Lee returns to our screens, after a 10-year absence, as the titular human face of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. His reappearance on television is something of a surprise. There are many more talented has-beens still out there, and in Sunshine On Putty, the journalist Ben Thompson’s history of…
Stewart Lee returns in ‘Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle’ - March 2009 Time Out - By Tim Out - March 12th, 2009
Since he was last on TV, Stewart Lee has caused controversy with ‘Jerry Springer: the Opera’ and racked up a string of Edinburgh Fringe successes, so why is the BBC’s ‘Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle’ ‘pregnant with lack of meaning’ asks comedy critic Tim Out His energy-sapping manifestation on Jimmy Carr’s ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’…
Taking a stand pays off for Stewart Lee - March 2009 The Metro - By David Baldwin - March 11th, 2009
Stewart Lee has had something of a tumultuous relationship with television. Widely regarded as one of this country’s riskiest and most insightful stand-up comedians, the last time Lee fronted a TV show of any kind was ten years ago, when he appeared with Richard Herring in BBC2 show This Morning With Richard Not Judy. Four…