Stewart Lee is a condescending snob - March 2009 Sunday Mercury - By Roz Laws - March 29th, 2009

I’VE always thought that people from Solihull (or Silhillians, as they pretentiously call themselves) were snobs. Now Stewart Lee proves it. The comic, who grew up in the town, decided to lay into fellow Midlander Adrian Chiles in his BBC2 Comedy Vehicle this week. He said of The One Show (watched by considerably more people…

Venereal Disease or Stewart Lee? - March 2009 Daily Telegraph Messageboard - By Daily Telegraph Messageboard Contribution - March 25th, 2009

So which do you find funnier? V.D. (contraction thereof) or ‘comedian’ (not) Stewart Lee? His TV shows are pathetic – even the invited audience are bored out of their minds. He is not unlike Brand and the slobbering, fawning Ross (OBE) – smug, overpaid, arrogant, apparently stupid and not remotely amusing or entertaining. I’d prefer…

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - March 2009 GQ Magazine - By James Mullinger - March 24th, 2009

Comedy legend Stewart Lee’s first television programme in over ten years debuted last week to a not unrespectable one million viewers on BBC2. Fans of his were not disappointed – the show was simply a 25-minute stand-up routine intercut with a few brief sketches – and non-converts were questioning why they had not heard of…

TV Review: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, - March 2009 TV Scoop - By mofgimmers - March 24th, 2009

Stewart Lee. It’s good to have you back. It’s good to have anyone like you back. Even though there’s no-one quite like you. But your ilk. Brave, confrontational, sharp, smart and dangerous. Comedians stuck on the box are, by and large, filled with a Family Friendly angle or, worse still, employ a ‘Let’s Make A…

The brilliance of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - March 2009 The Times - By Caitlin Moran - March 21st, 2009

The received wisdom is that, as the northern hemisphere tilts nearer the Sun – causing the Earth to warm, buds to flush, and bees, once more, to fly in through open windows – that we watch less television. Britain, it is presumed, strolls out for a gigantic game of cricket around March 15, should the…

YOU THE JURY: JAMIE HALL & BEN FARRELL - March 2009 BroadcastNow.co.uk - By Jamie Hall and Ben Farrell - March 18th, 2009

Jamie Hall and Ben Farrell review the latest TV shows. Jamie Hall is group head of production at Lime Pictures. The format for Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is Lee performing stand-up material in front of an audience interspersed with sketches. It has a great set that looks like a cross between the Press Club and…