Snowflake/Tornado at Symphony Hall Birmingham ★★★★ - March 2020 What's On Live - By Steve Adams - March 13th, 2020

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’…

Endless laughter in Birmingham as Stewart Lee brings new tour to Symphony Hall - March 2020 Shropshire Star - By Bill McCarthy - March 13th, 2020

But that’s what happened at Stewart Lee’s two hour show in Birmingham. A short song played with acoustic guitar at the end of the set, with a message about voting for Boris Johnson did it for me and I couldn’t get it out of my head for hours. It came at the end of a…

Stewart Lee:It’s Not For Everyone. - March 2020 Evans Is A Place On Earth - By Dave Evans - March 11th, 2020

I’d rather write about art, music, or film than comedy for the most part. That’s because when I’m writing about art nobody expects me to draw illustrations to go with it that look as if they could have come from the brush of Van Gogh or Picasso, when I write about music nobody expects me…

Royal and Derngate, Northampton, 6th March 2020 ★★ - March 2020 therealchrisparkle.com - By therealchrisparkle - March 9th, 2020

We saw Stewart Lee seven years ago with his Much a-Stew About Nothing tour, and I really admired (and found hysterical) his unique style of deconstructing a show and turning it in on itself. I also noted his no-holds-barred stance of calling out any audience member who dares to check their phone… more of which…

Poison-tipped gags from comic master - March 2020 Henley Standard - March 2nd, 2020

I WISH I could be as brazen as Stewart Lee — not his humour, which is richly funny, but the chutzpah which saw him stride into the Oxford audience less than two minutes into his set and wrench a phone from an audience member. “No phones, mate,” he said as he marched back to the…

‘World’s number one stand-up comedian’ lives up to some of the hype - February 2020 The Morning Star - By Ciaran Walsh - February 28th, 2020

STEWART LEE is a master of challenging, and at times hilarious, rambling satires. And he starts off his Snowflake/Tornado show as he means to go on with an oblique punning quip about Julian Assange — ironic, as Lee is a columnist for Assange’s nemesis, the Guardian/Observer. Unsurprising, though, because Lee is one of most talented…