Snowflake / Tornado - October 2022 October 2nd, 2022

Snowflake/Tornado was recorded in May 2022 on the UK tour, in York, and was broadcast on the BBC in September 2022. Snowflake went out on the 4th September, and Tornado on the 29th (following a delay imposed by program rescheduling after the death of the Queen). For the time being, the shows are only available…

Snowflake/Tornado at Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, 29 June-3 July 2022 - July 2022 Abundant Art - By Amy Melling - July 7th, 2022

The show is a double bill of two, new, sixty-minute sets – weirdly, delivered in the opposite order to the title. Tornado is centered around Netflix incorrectly attributing the synopsis of Sharknado to Lee’s series Comedy Vehicle. The first half is funny and well paced, it sees bits on mainstream comedians who haven’t had their…

1996 vs 2021 - June 2021 Le Document - By Harry Pye - June 15th, 2021

Le Document (LD) Will you be following in the footsteps of Stephen Fry, Rob Newman etc and start writing novels or are you happy just being on the telly and making people laugh? Stewart Lee [1996] (SL-96) I’ve started on the novel already, but of course it will just be slagged to shit by the…

Content Provider - July 2019 July 18th, 2019

How do you write a one-size fits all stand-up comedy show to tour around divided Brexit Britain? Stewart Lee found himself having to do exactly that, as he dragged his resilient Content Provider show around the dis-united kingdom for eighteen months and 214 dates, in the wake of the referendum. Captured in leave-voting Southend-On-Sea, Content…

Content Provider - July 2019 July 18th, 2019

How do you write a one-size fits all stand-up comedy show to tour around divided Brexit Britain? Stewart Lee found himself having to do exactly that, as he dragged his resilient Content Provider show around the dis-united kingdom for eighteen months and 214 dates, in the wake of the referendum. Captured in leave-voting Southend-On-Sea, Content…

Telegraph Review - October 2018 October 31st, 2018