Stewart Lee is, ironically, one of the biggest comedians working in the UK today. Despite years of stand-up based around the fact he felt he wasn’t as popular as he should be, his wry persona, deadbeat delivery and general disdain for the audience has seen him offer a refreshing kind of stand up; one that…
The funniest standup I’ve ever seen Kevin McAleer. In the late 80s his slide show, mainly of owls, during which he describes inaccurately a succession of bland images, reduced me to tears, and years ago his then current show, loosely derived from Dostoyevsky, made me fall off a chair in actual pain. I think he…