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Content Provider, BBC2 – screamingly funny - July 2018 FT.com - By Suzi Feay - July 27th, 2018
Stewart Lee divides comedy fans; his control of an audience is masterly, though he rarely tells conventional jokes and has no physical skills to speak of apart from stoutly leaning on his mic stand and occasionally capering up and down. I find him screamingly funny; plenty don’t, accusing him of smugness and a wilful disdain…
Content Provider, BBC Two - July 2018 The List - By Brian Donaldson - July 25th, 2018
Is Content Provider likely to gain Stewart Lee a new fanbase? Probably not. Does it offer proof to his followers as well as the comedy world at large that he remains one of the country’s foremost agent provocateurs when it comes to getting up on stage and talking into a microphone? Almost certainly. On the…
I am road-worn, shapeless and undignified, a relic, revelling in my own irrelevance - July 2018 i News - By Stewart Lee - July 25th, 2018
Since I started touring my latest live stand-up show, Content Provider, now laid to rest, in the summer of 2016, I’ve been describing the post-referendum landscape as a “chaotic inferno of hate” in the punchline to a bit about the EU’s bendy banana legislation. In February, the phrase “chaotic inferno of hate” appeared in a…
Pick of The Day - July 2018 The Observer - July 22nd, 2018
Observer columnist Lee begins this triumphant two-hour comic assault by upbraiding his audience of “Essex filth” at the Palace theatre, Southend-on-Sea, for applauding his targeting of “your exact social demographic in my cynical attempt to maintain a future-proof audience for long-term mortgage payment purposes”. Recorded in April of this year, towards the end of an…