A Room with a Stew - October 2015 Socialist Review - By Jenny Leow - October 14th, 2015

“Are there any jokes? No,” says Stewart Lee midway through his new show A Room with a Stew, and he’s telling the truth. There aren’t any jokes as such. But there is surreal, vivid imagery that emerges often from nowhere as it builds, layer upon layer, through exquisitely tortuous repetition. References to Brechtian alienation share…

A Room With A Stew ★★★★★ - October 2015 Dark Matt's Blog - By Matt Adcock - October 12th, 2015

AS an over 40 year old, I fared better then many of the audience at Stewart (once of the awesome Lee and Herring comedy duo) Lee show. He’s not adverse to mocking those who have paid to come and witness his ‘work in progress’ preparation of material for his next BBC 2 series of Comedy…

Tasty, Stew ★★★★ - October 2015 Morning Star - By Will Stone - October 7th, 2015

STEWART LEE’S cat is called Jeremy Corbyn. Or so he would have us believe. Long before Corbyn’s stratospheric rise from rebellious backbench MP to Labour leader, Lee remembers seeing one of the North Islington MP’s campaign fliers in the 90s and thinking it would make a good name for a cat, his story goes. But…

The Artistry Of Standup Comedy - October 2015 Exeunt Magazine - October 1st, 2015

This is an Excerpt from ‘The Artistry of Stand Up Comedy’, here. Stand-up comedy is so very Brechtian. It is as if all comedians, consciously or unconsciously, exist at this pole of theatrical theory. The frame of comedy itself is a large, obviously unreal, artistic construction, where every element of life is turned on its…

Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Square Theatre - September 2015 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - September 30th, 2015

‘No one’s equipped to review me,’ Stewart Lee asserts with his usual mix of certainty and superiority – guaranteeing this very same line will kick-start a dozen critiques… including this one. Because it’s true: there can’t be a line, a pause, a change of tone that Lee hasn’t considered in so much more depth than…

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…