Spoofing the world to rights - February 1998 The Stage - By Ben Dowell - February 12th, 1998

Lee and Herring are about to take over Sunday Iunchtimes on BBC2 Ben Dowell probes the comic duo on the content of their new show Comedy duo Lee and Herring are of that rare breed of Edinburgh performer who have managed to wow the boards up North by making it on telly, setting a generous…

Shun Perrier, comic urges - February 1998 The Stage - By Ben Dowell - February 5th, 1998

Television comic and Edinburgh veteran Stewart Lee has told The Stage that he is prepared to organise a boycott of Perrier Awards became they are “against the spirit of the Edinburgh Festival”. Lee said that the awards at Edinburgh can never succeed in picking the best act in Edinburgh because of the variety of the…

It’s best not to join this Cluub! - August 1997 The Stage - By Cameron Robertson - August 28th, 1997

Club Z returns again for more brainwashing of the highest order. Simon Munnery (alias Alan Parker) is The League Against Tedium, a super-being of 1984 proportions who is better than us. He uses a large screen with hidden messages and short sketches to command his all-seeing, all-knowing, all- powerful, all-baloney facade over us. A range…

Stewart Lee – King Dong vs MobyDick - August 1997 Brian Donaldson - By The List - August 22nd, 1997

Faint-hearted stay home - August 1997 The Stage - By Sian Phillips - August 14th, 1997

He is well known enough not to need a 6ft tall phallus and a velvet white whale to draw in the punters, but Stewart Lee seems to like strange props. The audience is advised to familiarise itself with the story of Moby Dick from a copy it has been handed before the show, and some…

Lee & Herring Live - August 1996 The Stage - By Cameron Robertson - August 29th, 1996

The boys from TV’s Fist of Fun, pack ’em in for another show. Richard Herring wanders about the stage like a penguin with memory loss, spewing juvenile fun to which the audience applaud and groan vigorously. Stewart Lee tries to talk as gently as possible for much of the time and gives his logical and…