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G2 quiz of the year: Stewart Lee’s general knowledge - December 2011 The Guardian - By Stewart Lee - December 25th, 2011

Round 1: The Five Things 1 What weighs as much as 21bn suns, is 10 times the size of our solar system, breaks down the physical laws of space and time, and can swallow itself and everything around it? a) Eamonn Holmes’s stomach b) The newly discovered largest ever black hole, in the NGC 4889…

Father Christmas wouldn’t be subcontracting model castles to carpenters - December 2011 The Guardian - By Stewart Lee - December 20th, 2011

Christmas 1972. My mother and I lived at my grandparents’, and my grandad had had a stroke. I wanted Father Christmas to bring me a castle for Christmas. I did not realise this was essentially asking my cash-strapped mother for an extra and expensive gift. But Father Christmas delivered the castle, and it was waiting…

A Christmas Piece For Time Out - December 2011 Time Out - By Stewart Lee - December 1st, 2011

Like so many of my generation, I came to London in the mid-Seventies in search of sensation; the legendary Hope And Anchor pub rock scene of The Feelgoods and Ducks Deluxe; the then exotic delights of London’s take-away food community, Italian Pizza, Indian Curry, Kentucky chicken, and Chinese Chinese; the availability of cheap speed; and,…

A Piece On Child-Friendly Hotels - December 2011 Best Western Hotel Magazine - By Stewart Lee - December 1st, 2011

Half term comes round again, like the tolling of a graveyard bell. From the Midlands and the South, bowed and cowed, the hopeful parent horde crawls west in hatchbacks and people carriers, in search of a glimpse of the normality they enjoyed before they gave birth, in search a great gleaming myth. It flickers at…

Does comic ‘bravery’ go hand in hand with being offensive and stupid? - November 2011 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - November 13th, 2011

Ricky Gervais is an actor, writer, and director. He is brave. I am a standup. I am not brave. I only ever did one brave thing. In 2005, I agreed, while drunk, to jump off the tallest structure in New Zealand. New Zealanders’ high living standards mean they are driven to create artificial jeopardy, usually…

Mark Kermode Is Thor - October 2011 Rejected Piece - By Stewart Lee - October 1st, 2011

The comedian Simon Munnery suggests all autobiographies should be sub-titled “Failure Justified”. It’s funny because it’s true. All autobiographies are the acrid after-burps of dying mortals pleading for forgiveness. That said, in his new autobiography, See A Little Light, the American punk icon Bob Mould seems delighted with his downward spiral from front-man of the…

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