To be a Stewart Lee fan is to accept that banal jokes about marriage/family life/ other aspects of the everyday are simply not going to happen. Instead, viewers are mentally transported to a comedic plain in which there is no secure footing, where apparently familiar subjects are turned on their heads and even the audience’s…
It’s been a couple of years since Stewart Lee visited Scarborough. Last time he was trying out material that found its way into the fourth and final series of his, “critically accalimed and very cheap to make” show, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. This time it’s a far more polished effort, having started life as his…
In 2009 The Times referred to Stewart Lee as “The comedian’s comedian, and for good reason” others have labelled him “Marmite” but love him or hate him tonights show at The Gatehouse was to a sell out crowd. Before he got going Stewart explained the running time for the show and asked people not to…