Like Tommy Cooper, but in a morbid key - March 2016 The Independent - By Sean O'Grady - March 25th, 2016

What is wrong with the following gag? “John Whittingdale: a man who, if he saw the aurora borealis twinkling over a Scandinavian snowfield would only see a missed opportunity for a public-private finance initiative.” According to Stewart Lee’s account of his critics’ (“young comics”) reaction to it, quite a lot of his peers think there…

Preview: Episode 4 – Death - March 2016 Beyond The Joke - By Bruce Dessau - March 24th, 2016

Conspiracy theorists can have a field day with the fact that in some places episode four was billed as The Migrant Crisis. In fact our stand-up sage-cum-holy-fool is here to guide us through his thoughts on death this time. Did it change or did someone get it wrong? More pertinently, however, the show is a…

Episode 4 Preview - March 2016 Herts & Essex Observer - March 23rd, 2016

He’s discussed wealth. He’s dealt with Islamaphobia. He’s taken a wry look at patriotism. Along the way he has failed to hide his disappointment at losing the comedy Bafta to Graham Norton, and recalled the time a Muslim woman on the bus sat on a copy of the Watchtower. Now all that fades into insignificance…

Lemon sucks but Stew’s act stinks - March 2016 The Daily Star - By Garry Bushell - March 20th, 2016

YOU’D have to be as drunk as Phil Mitchell to find Celebrity Juice funny. It’s like a tenth rate Shooting Stars. People titter because Keith Lemon leers at breasts and says “milk, milk”. What are we, six? Ooh, he said fanny, he said poo… On his live show, Lemon got his first laughs with “Oh…

This Week in TV - March 2016 The Guardian - By Euan Ferguson - March 20th, 2016

Stewart Lee said in an earlier broadcast that “no one is equipped to review me”. That’s me told, bless him. The alleged theme of last week’s Comedy Vehicle was patriotism. He could so easily have been lazy. Stew is many bastarding things, but lazy isn’t one. Somehow, he managed – mouth-farting into a mic –…

Esoteric fun with Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - March 2016 Grimsby Telegraph - March 17th, 2016

If ever there was a comedian who divided opinion, it’s Stewart Lee. Older readers may remember him from his other comedy vehicle – the 1990s decidedly-studenty Fist Of Fun, with Richard Herring. Stewart doesn’t do jokes as such … but don’t turn away just yet, for the man offers up a deliciously esoteric slant on…