Scrambled Egg at The Stand ★★★★ - August 2008 One4Review.com - August 10th, 2008

Stewart Lee may have come 41st in a poll of the top 100 comedians. Personally I think he was robbed. I love Stewart’s comedy despite not getting to see him as much as I would like. I am also a great fan of his written work especially his plays and am looking forward to seeing…

Scrambled Egg ★★★ - August 2008 The Guardian - By Brian Logan - August 9th, 2008

Woe betide those who find themselves on the receiving end of Stewart Lee’s sarcasm. It kills with a smile – then bludgeons the corpse. One of the several routines, old and new, he is rotating as part of this year’s Edinburgh show turns the irony on an American comedian called Franklyn Ajaye. Lee cites Ajaye’s…

Scrambled Egg ★★★★ - August 2008 Fest Magazine - By Ben Judge - August 9th, 2008

“You’ve worked me out… I’m just looking at an object and being sarcastic about it,” says Stewart Lee, breaking down his set to a finely tuned analytical degree, having just looked at and been sarcastic about both Franklyn Ajaye’s 1974 album I’m A Comedian, Seriously and Chris Moyles’ autobiography The Tough Second Book. “And I’ve…

Scrambled Egg ★★★★ - July 2008 DooYoo.co.uk - July 31st, 2008

Advantages: Master of the craft performs finely honed routines about significant stuff. Disadvantages: Repeats much material from previous years. Stewart Lee’s new Edinburgh show is a literal egg box of laughs. Having spent much of the year in his hard-pressed job as a stand-up comedian (the hardest job in the world apparently) writing new routines…