Krishnan Guru-Murthy’s Ways to Change The World Podcast - May 2025 May 9th, 2025

Once described as the ‘comedian’s comedian’ Stewart Lee has been performing stand up since 1988. https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe He is known for pushing boundaries with his intelligent, self-referential and often provocative style of comedy but in his new show ‘Stewart Lee vs the Man Wulf’ he questions his place on the comedy circuit in an era of…

Katy Perry got into space but I can’t get to Norwich - April 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 20th, 2025

A group of six women returned to Earth from space on Monday, including Katy Perry, the former wife of the Trump cheerleader Russell Brand; and the former Fox news presenter and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, fiancee of Donald Trump’s media lapdog Jeff Bezos, who bent Washington Post editorial policy to favour the New American Fascism ™…

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid just needed Trump - April 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 13th, 2025

I first saw the Danish Dogme 95 film Festen in 1998 when I was 30. You had to go to the cinema to see films in those days, when small boys ran barefoot on a conveyor belt to turn the reels, and it’s possible I watched its depiction of a family torn apart by violence,…

Orange Juice? Keir Starmer is on the Kool-Aid - April 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - April 6th, 2025

On 1 April, the TV comedian John Richardsons, who you will have seen on many panel shows, announced he was becoming a teacher, having already completed the training in secret. I was humbled by Richardsons’s decision to do something genuinely worthwhile and by his foolhardy bravery. How would he control a class of teenagers pre-armed…

Trump chose the wrong hill to DEI on - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 23rd, 2025

In the second world war, Navajo code talkers transmitted sensitive US military information in their own undocumented language. Which was nice of them, as their immediate ancestors had been dispossessed and destroyed by white settlers, and then had all their water poisoned with uranium. “Were it not for the Navajos,” concluded major Howard Connor, at…

Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope - March 2025 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - March 9th, 2025

I’d say writing comedy about the ever-shifting opinions of Donald Trump, the Speedy Gonzales of on-the-hoof policymaking, is like playing pin the tail on the donkey, but it’s unfair on donkeys. No donkey ever sexually assaulted someone in a department store changing cubicle. It’s 4.30pm on Wednesday and I’m done. Last week I filed this…