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Peas and cues - August 2002 The Metro - By Dominic Maxwell - August 19th, 2002
Comedy can be a frustrating business, even if you’re brilliant at it. For Stewart Lee, the process of being a stand-up became too much about crowd control, too little about the material. Famous as one half of TV’s Lee And Herring, he had worked on the circuit since university. After the duo were bafflingly cancelled…
Mince or quince? - August 2002 The List - By Richard Rees - August 15th, 2002
An owl wakes adrift at sea in a curiously coloured boat accompanied by a cat, its natural predator. There’s some cash lying around in the hull as well as a small guitar and, rather disturbingly, some honey. And you may ask yourself: ‘Well… how did I get here?’ At least, that’s what Stewart Lee would…
Pea Green Boat – Traverse, Edinburgh ★★★ - August 2002 Divento.com - By Ian Shuttleworth - August 11th, 2002
Lee announces this as his “first mid-thirties pretentious one-man show”, but it retains his trademark comic perspective. The idea is that Lee, having been commissioned to write a treatment of an Edward Lear biopic to star Ray Winstone(!), becomes simultaneously obsessed with Lear’s nonsense poem and with his own problems living in a flat without…
Four bags of excrement, one tea towel and a licence to fail… - December 2001 The Independent - December 16th, 2001
Where do creative ideas come from? A friend of mine thinks his beard receives them from the ether, and that when it grows too long the drooping hairs become less effective aerials. He is a wrong and lazy man. Most successful shows and stories evolve in the secrecy of writers’ garrets or rehearsal rooms before…