Curmudgeonly comedian Stewart Lee genuinely loves Truro - January 2016 West Briton.co.uk - January 8th, 2016

THE thought of interviewing Stewart Lee – the 41st Best Stand-Up Ever according to his 2007 tour – always leaves me nervous. He’s a curmudgeon, isn’t he? A morose misanthrope who despises those people who will fill the Hall For Cornwall on Wednesday, January 20, and will shoot me down in flames with his inflammatory,…

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Series 4 – FREE TICKET APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN. - November 2015 November 11th, 2015

Dear everyone, SRO Tickets, the ticketing agency, have now released tickets to the recordings of Comedy Vehicle Series 4 at The Mildmay Club, Stoke Newington. You can apply to be in the audience for the recordings in December by CLICKING THIS LINK HERE. As you are subscribed to this newsletter, they have arranged a priority…

Analysis of Stewart Lee’s charity routine (Comedy Vehicle s2e3) - November 2015 My Broken ID - November 3rd, 2015

when i was 8 or 9 years old, i asked my parents if it would be possible for them to send some of the money they normally spent on my christmas presents to a charity, of the starving african variety. i don’t know where i came up with the idea, but the odds are an…

Will Self’s New Statesman Column on Stewart Lee Breaks Twat Barometer - October 2015 The Morning Gerald - October 20th, 2015

Will Self has written a puff piece in the New Statesman on Stewart Lee and various instruments across the globe measuring the degree of wank in the world have exploded it has been revealed. Professor Charles Langtree of The Felchfield Institute said ‘My Twat barometer melted last night.’ ‘Then the Wankometer blew up followed by…

“The most controversial thing you can do is be sincere in a world of irony.” - October 2015 Exeunt Magazine - By Andrew Haydon - October 19th, 2015

Andrew Haydon: What do you normally get asked in interviews? Stewart Lee: Well, it depends. Local newspapers haven’t ever seen you and they ask you where you get your ideas from, what you think of political correctness, are there any topics that are unacceptable, you know [does a voice] “Are there things that you can’t joke about,…

Most performers want their audiences to like them. I just want to be Stewart Lee - October 2015 The New Statesman - By Will Self - October 19th, 2015

I’ve done a fair amount of solo performing throughout my career – in fact, I started out as a stand-up comedian, and from time to time I revisit that sort of shtick, doing little gigs in the upstairs rooms of pubs. But mostly I do “shows” of one sort or another to support the publication…