Series 4 Episode 2 Review - March 2016 RTE.ie Blog - By John Byrne - March 15th, 2016

Fun might be stretching it, but Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (Thursday, BBC Two) continues its fourth season of his scorched earth approach to stand-up and real-life hypocrisy. This week the focus was on Islamophobia, but he also dealt with Quakers and porridge, Mormons* (their Watchtower magazine, to be precise), as well as the average angry…

BEST OF THE BOX - March 2016 The Metropolist - March 13th, 2016

Stewart Lee is a genius. Stewart Lee takes comedy and deconstructs it before your very eyes and then tells you why it isn’t funny, even though it really is. This is the fourth series of his award-winning stand up series, each episode tackling one subject… well taking a subject apart in his own unique style.…

TV Pick - March 2016 The Independent - By Gerard Gilbert - March 10th, 2016

“This is clearly the weakest of the four series you’ve done… is that deliberate?” asks Chris Morris’ hostile interrogator, but, joking aside, this is a weaker episode than last week. Perhaps it has something to do with the subject: Islamaphobia

Thursday’s best TV - March 2016 The Guardian - By Ali Catterall - March 10th, 2016

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle – 10pm, BBC2 “I assure you, within three minutes, on this television programme, on this stage, a Muslim will have been lampooned.” Well, sort of. This is a Stewart Lee joint, after all: a safe space for a complicit audience well-versed in the man’s ziggurats of irony and meta-commentaries of unending…

Stewart Lee talks comedy, success and why stand-up is the only thing he ever wants to do - March 2016 Radio Times - By Ben Dowell - March 10th, 2016

“I would like to carry on doing this into my mid to late-60s, minimum. I am not going to write a play or do a novel or host anything or do a film. I would like to do this” Stewart Lee has returned for a fourth series of his acclaimed, complicated and bellyachingly funny BBC2…

FROM THE DESK OF Stewart Lee Weds march 9th NEWS EXTRA - March 2016 March 9th, 2016

This mini-newsletter is intended to cover weekly extras in the current slew of stuff related to me. The absence of anything should not be seen as an indication of its cancellation. Everything will be covered in the next big monthly or weekly newsletter, including final line-ups for ATP at Prestatyn 15-17 April, which isn’t cancelled,…