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Vegetable Stew, Leicester Square Theatre, London ★★★★ - November 2010 The Independent - By Julian Hall - November 2nd, 2010
Sharp show is souped up with jokes Stewart Lee’s book, How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian, released this summer, is a triumph of the art of footnotes, providing a DVD extra-style commentary over transcripts of some of his shows. As those who know Lee’s work would agree,…
Review – Stewart Lee, Vegetable Stew ★★★★ - November 2010 London Is Funny - By Ben Clover - November 1st, 2010
Ben Clover finds Stewart Lee’s Vegetable Stew a little more silly and a little less ranty than usual, but no less precise. Stewart Lee isn’t going to let something like gravity interfere with his act. Near the start of Vegetable Stew he says it isn’t a show with an arc like previous 60-minuters, but it’s…
Stewart Lee: Vegetable Stew review - October 2010 The Observer - By Stephanie Merritt - October 31st, 2010
Few contemporary comics divide opinion like Stewart Lee. For long-time fans and comedy obsessives, he is touched by genius, a maverick whose deep-rooted fascination with comedy lies in seeing how far he can stretch the boundaries of the form while still making an audience laugh. For those who prefer a more obvious strike rate of…
Stewart Lee, Leicester Square Theatre, WC2 - October 2010 The Times - By Dominic Maxwell - October 29th, 2010
Tonight, Stewart Lee tells us, he will be tackling three main topics. Charity. The Government. And Adrian Chiles. Normally, he’d try to be more seamless than this. “Why hasn’t it got”, he asks himself on behalf of his fans, “a narrative arc like the other shows?” The answer is that he is working up material…
Stewart Lee, Leicester Square Theatre - October 2010 The Arts Desk - By Kate Bassett - October 29th, 2010
Stewart Lee is pretending to be mildly crap. He keeps discussing how he is none too funny, but the point is that his commentary on his own shortcomings thereby turns into a droll running gag. He achieves this with deadpan relish. His delivery is, of course, characteristically sardonic, albeit with an amused glint in the…