Word In Your Ear – “things overheard in record shops” and a Nightingales kazoo - September 2021 September 22nd, 2021

This tremendous edition features the “41st best stand-up ever” looking back at early ‘80s Peel shows, the powerful influence of Ted Chippington, “12 seconds of studio dialogue on a Jason Crest acetate”, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, how Robin Askwith, Barbara Windsor and Julian Cope became entangled, what happens when your trousers fall…

WORD PODCAST 412 – a Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test - September 2021 September 21st, 2021

A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test …where we consider the brave new world in which Rick Astley plays the Smiths, a documentary explores the reasons people detest Kenny G and Rolling Stone rather self-consciously revise their list of the Best 500 Songs Of All Time (should they declare…

1996 vs 2021 - June 2021 Le Document - By Harry Pye - June 15th, 2021

Le Document (LD) Will you be following in the footsteps of Stephen Fry, Rob Newman etc and start writing novels or are you happy just being on the telly and making people laugh? Stewart Lee [1996] (SL-96) I’ve started on the novel already, but of course it will just be slagged to shit by the…

TUSK INTERVIEWS #2: LAURA CANNELL AND STEWART LEE - September 2020 Tusk Festival - By Laura Cannell - September 9th, 2020

Laura Cannell: Hi Stewart, So here we go, I thought I would ask you some questions and please can you can ask me some too? A conversation really… We were going to work together live for the first time in July at Kings Place which has now been postponed until 2021, the idea for a…

I’m not going to change who I am or what I think, even if it did mean losing audiences - March 2020 The List - By Clare Sawers - March 5th, 2020

‘I didn’t get into this to get big crowds,’ says comedian Stewart Lee. ‘I got into it to be free to do what I want. People can come and see me if they want, but it doesn’t make any difference to the work I produce. I’d do it anyway, to no one.’ The less Lee…

Comedian Stewart Lee returns to Oxford Playhouse with new show Snowflake/Tornado - February 2020 Oxford Mail - By Marc Evans - February 25th, 2020

Stewart Lee is bringing his Snowflake/Tornado show to the Oxford Playhouse in February THERE are not many comedians who can divide opinion quite like Stewart Lee does. Adored and despised in equal measures, his style of comedy is just as likely to have audiences scratching their heads in bewilderment as it is to leave them…