That presenter was the comedian Stewart Lee, whose recent tribute to punk singer Robert Lloyd, King Rocker, has, so far, been one of this year’s most entertaining Dlms. Radio 4 should use him more, pronto. “Chroniclers have been lying to us since the Drst troglodyte daubed an exaggerated bison on a French cave wall,” he…
Collected positive tweets for Comin’ Over Here by Asian Dub Foundation feat Stewart Lee (all profits to Kent Refugee Action Network). It was the UK’s most downloaded/purchased song on Brexit day, though Wham’s Last Christmas beat it in the streaming charts which are for losers. Thanks for buying it if you did.
I phoned ahead to check the show was still on – it was only sensible given the Prime Minister’s ambiguous update earlier in the day. The woman who answered assured me it was, but in honesty didn’t seem entirely convinced herself. So, it was against this backdrop of impending doom that we travelled to Canterbury‘s…
Whether Stewart Lee is still the “41st best stand-up ever” (Channel 4), “the world’s greatest living stand-up” (The Times) or a declining commodity in the post-PC age is one of the many conundrums the mercurial comic wrestles with in his latest show. Or rather shows, as the performance is split between the first set’s ‘Tornado’…