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Comedy: Stewart Lee - March 2011 Varsity Magazine - By Fred Maynard - March 11th, 2011
Until recently, I was only aware of Stewart Lee as a comedian who is liked by other people, the kind who sneer at just about everything anyone’s ever heard of, condemning it as being too mainstream. I would secretly like to be one of these people, because I have a sneaking feeling that they actually…
Cambridge Corn Exchange, March 6 - March 2011 Cambridge News - By Lizzy Dening - March 7th, 2011
It’s 7.30 and Stewart Lee is grumpy. Late comers (perhaps a result of the show’s incorrect listing on the Corn Exchange website) are holding up his introduction, and his microphone isn’t working. The famously curmudgeonly comedian can barely contain his glee, telling us the show is already ruined, and he’ll never manage to win us…
Vegetable Stew, Leicester Square Theatre ★★★ - December 2010 The Telegraph - By Dominic Cavendish - December 7th, 2010
His perfectionism is much-loved, but there’s only so much antipathy or disdain an audience can stomach. Watching Stewart Lee in action these days is like standing on the edge of a frozen lake and seeing a man half-submerged in the perishing ice. You throw him a rope – but he hurls it back. You didn’t…
What we reported about Winterval - November 2010 Birmingham Post - By Jonathan Walker - November 12th, 2010
Comedian Stewart Lee has been on the radio pushing the familiar line that Birmingham City Council was accused of “banning” Christmas. As he correctly says in his interview, which you can hear for yourself here, “they called the celebrations as a whole Winterval and you were allowed to use the word Christmas, and you were…
Someone out there, please pick up a guitar and howl. - November 2010 The Guardian - By John Harris - November 4th, 2010
Public services are being laid to waste and benefits shorn, but popular culture’s voice of dissent remains strangely silent For those of us who still spend far too much time thinking about what used to be called popular culture, these are fretful times. For more than two years, politics has been in a state of…