‘Falling sharks, bashing Ricky Gervais and sticking up for snowflakes.’ - February 2020 Witney Gazette - By Marc Evans - February 27th, 2020

FIRST-TIME purveyors of the comedy stylings of Stewart Lee would probably have found themselves slightly baffled as ‘The Times’s No.1 stand-up comedian’ (according to Lee himself) started his week-long run of shows at the Playhouse on Monday. The critically-acclaimed performer and writer – and patron of the Beaumont Street theatre – was not here to…

Brighton Dome ★★★★★ - February 2020 The Reviews Hub - By Simon Topping - February 21st, 2020

The rumbling juggernaut of expressive grumpiness that is Stewart Lee rolls slowly, yet relentlessly, into town; stopping off, briefly, at The Brighton Dome to delight a packed out audience. Garnering laughs from the off, Lee describes how he has got bald, fat, blind and deaf since he last went on tour, before launching into the…

Stewart Lee breaks three-year hiatus in style - February 2020 Brighton Argus - By Hugh Finzel - February 21st, 2020

The first half, Tornado, stems from the comedian’s discovery that his Comedy Vehicle TV show mistakenly spent two years on Netflix with the description from American sci-fi horror film Sharknado 3 as its listing. This discovery, alongside the Times calling him the “world’s greatest living stand-up”, causes Lee to assess his own place in the…

Joyfully Surreal - February 2020 Brighton & Hove News - By Fran Malone - February 20th, 2020

“I can write jokes, they just don’t interest me” Stewart Lee says part way through this show. Stewart Lee’s Snowflake/Tornado has no need to rely on Lee’s interest in writing jokes. Instead, the audience are taken on a hilarious and deeply detailed journey through a vast and often bizarre landscape of subject matter. After three…

Brighton Dome Review - February 2020 Brighton Source - By Ben Bailey - February 19th, 2020

It’s a brave and foolish person who tries to take a photo at a Stewart Lee show. Brave, because you will be singled out and shouted at. Foolish, because what’s the point? Just watch it instead. Early in tonight’s gig, Lee turns his ire on someone brandishing a phone up on the balcony and it…

He clearly revels in his intellectual superiority - February 2020 Leicester Mercury - By Alan Thompson - February 14th, 2020

WHAT is it, I won­dered, as I scrolled through the pages of some of the most ex­co­ri­at­ing and vi­cious re­views I’ve seen, that makes any co­me­dian want to post stuff like that on their web­site? A milder se­lec­tion in­cludes: “A cul­tural bully from the Oxbridge Mafia who wants to ap­pear morally su­pe­rior but couldn’t cut…