FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee March 2019 - February 2019 February 28th, 2019

“In contrast with (my) generation, which had spent most of its time online learning to code so that it could add crude butterfly animations to the backgrounds of its weblogs, the generation immediately following had spent most of its time online making incredibly bigoted jokes in order to laugh at the idiots who were stupid…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee – FEBLY 2019 - January 2019 January 29th, 2019

1) CONTENT PROVIDER BBC   CONTENT PROVIDER is on BBC I-player until end of March. And all the COMEDY VEHICLES seem to have gone back up too. See how the world has changed in a decade. 2) King Rocker   https://www.kingrockerfilm.com/   How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee JAYNARY 2019 - January 2019 January 7th, 2019

1) CONTENT PROVIDER BBC CONTENT PROVIDER is on BBC I-player until end of March. And all the COMEDY VEHICLES seem to have gone back up too. See how the world has changed in a decade. 2) King Rocker https://www.kingrockerfilm.com/   How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee XMAS XTRA 2018 - December 2018 December 21st, 2018

1) CONTENT PROVIDER BBC 2 29th DEC CONTENT PROVIDER is on BBC again on Saturday 29th Dec at 11.55pm, and then on the i-player for 3 months afterwards. 2) Late Junction/s ON RADIO 3 Stewart Lee is to host a series of eclectic musical programmes on Radio 3 this Christmas. The comedian takes over as…

STEWART LEE / MICHAEL CUMMING / THE NIGHTINGALES – KING ROCKER - December 2018 December 19th, 2018

King Rocker Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming (Brass Eye / Toast), are attempting to find funding to finish a documentary they have been making on the resilient Birmingham post-punk band The Nightingales. Find out about it here, see a taster, and maybe get involved. WEBSITE: https://www.kingrockerfilm.com/ Socials (nothing posted yet) FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kingrockerfilm/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/kingrockerfilm Further…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee December 2018 - November 2018 November 23rd, 2018

1) SAVE THE CELLAR BY NOVEMBER 27TH PLEASE OXFORD was a weirdly difficult town for me to find venues to play in in the 00’s as I got more popular, as the main venues there were owned by big chains with strange surcharges and policies, although now I am happy doing long runs at the…