Stewart Lee’s series offers rare fidelity to the “warts and all” of live comedy. - July 2016 popmatters.com - By Haran Sivapalan - July 5th, 2016

Live vs. Televised Comedy A comedy audience is a capricious animal. Sometimes it cackles on cue, lapping up punchlines with an almost-Pavlovian predictability. At other times, it merely stares back at you, seemingly unresponsive to the highly crafted material it’s fed. The responses are not always binary like this. Often, the organism mutates and divides…

Stewart Lee and his UKIP routine - September 2015 Western Defence.org - By Gavin - September 25th, 2015

This morning at 8:10 Paul Nuttall of UKIP was interviewed on the Today Programme. Afterwards, Twitter was alive with left-wingers, most of whom seemed to work for “charities” or had names such as “Death to Capitalism”. Many were linking to a video by the stand-up comedian Stewart Lee:       They obviously found this…

Jazz Chicken - September 2015 Dayglo Badger - By Dayglo Badger - September 12th, 2015

This week’s post is brought to you by Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. Series 3 is on Netflix and I’ve been watching it again. If you can, and like that sort of thing or want to try it, I’d recommend episode 4 – “context”. “The conflict of interest I would have would be if Nando’s were…

Netflix UK TV review: Season 3 - August 2015 Vodzilla - By Ivan Radford - August 6th, 2015

Stewart Lee is the death of stand-up comedy. His smug tirades and educated, middle-class opinions ruin it for everyone. For those who don’t like his intellectual concerns and patronising tone, he’s impossible to tolerate. For those who do, he makes it impossible to tolerate any other comedian. That’s the brilliance of Stewart Lee’s stand-up: either…

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Series 3 DVD - November 2014 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - November 19th, 2014

Stewart Lee continues on cracking form with his third series of six contrary, tricksy and super-smart stand-up sets. As the house comedian of the metropolitan liberal elite, he puts in his sights such subjects as inequitable wealth distribution and the mentality underlying UKIP’s rise (‘If you say you’re English these days you get arrested and…

Stewart Lee interview: ‘Whether you think they’re right or wrong, UKIP is the funniest party at the moment’ - November 2014 Time Out - By Phil Harrison - November 7th, 2014

In an era of interchangeable panel-show perennials and observational blandness, the confrontational yet relentlessly hilarious Stewart Lee has never felt more vital. Since the mid-’90s – when, alongside Richard Herring, the Shropshire-born comic became a cult icon on BBC2’s ‘Fist of Fun’ and ‘This Morning with Richard Not Judy’ – Lee has been consistently iconoclastic.…