Stewart Lee, Leicester Square Theatre, review: Comedian covers exhaustive routine from Islamaphobia to urine ★★★★ - November 2014 The Independent - By Alice Jones - November 24th, 2014

This is, says Stewart Lee, a show of two halves. The first will be about Islamophobia; the second “exclusively about urine.” And to his dubious credit, the comedian keeps to his word. A Room with a Stew is another of Lee’s sort-of gigs – he is preparing for a new tour and a fourth series…

Stewart Lee at Leicester Square Theatre, WC2 ★★★★ - November 2014 The Times - By Alex Hardy - November 17th, 2014

It’s a set list you could hardly predict. First, there’ll be a section of Islamophobic comedy. Then, says Stewart Lee, “I’m going to talk exhaustively about urine for half an hour”. Of course. A Room with a Stew is labelled as work in progress, each block of material building towards an episode for the next…

Tricksy gags about liberals, rightwingers and ‘the Islams’ ★★★★ - November 2014 The Guardian - By Brian Logan - November 14th, 2014

The standup’s two-part set is, as ever, a rarefied viewing experience. You can take nothing at face value as he plays cat and mouse with the audience Stewart Lee recently defended comedy against the Nigel Farage charge that it’s in hock to left-liberal values. Now he’s out to disprove (not for the first time) the…

Stewart Lee Talks Islamophobia And Toilet Humour ★★★★ - November 2014 Londonist - By Will Noble - November 14th, 2014

Only Stewart Lee could make a 30-minute riff on urine so funny that it only feels like a 20 minute bit on urine. He issues forth a strong and steady flow of piddle-based humour, beginning with his traumatic baptism of piss at school, and climaxing with a payoff involving a urinal in Malta, some flies…

Laughing Point: Stewart Lee, Katherine Ryan & Josh Widdicombe thrill at charity gig - October 2014 Daily Star - By Nicole Morley - October 7th, 2014

Laughing Point – a branch of charitable organisation CentrePoint – hosted a sell-out show in London’s Palace Theatre to raise funds and awareness for London’s youth homelessness crisis. Hilariously deadpan Stewart Lee topped the evening’s line-up and any thoughts that he may be above toilet were soon flushed down the pan. Lee spent his entire…

Review: Daniel Kitson, Stewart Lee & More, Palace Theatre - October 2014 Beyond The Joke - By Bruce Dessau - October 7th, 2014

It is hard to believe but there have been mutterings of a Daniel Kitson backlash. His latest theatre piece, Analog.Ue was not greeted by the usual ecstatic reviews. Maybe – though I fully expect he would deny it – that is why he has been getting back to his first love of stand-up recently, compering…