Have you seen Stewart Lee's article on Chortle? It's really very good indeed.

There is very little point in trying to reason with The Daily Mail, and attempting to do appears to have driven Robin Ince mad. But once they have written a load of shit about you, it buzzes away in annoyance ruining your day, and you have to purge it somehow, and so ( Read more... )

Lovely post here (sbselect) saying this is a good time of year to take school-leavers aside and give them some words of praise or encouragement; it will really stick, and can be a huge boost ( Read more... )

Saw Stewart Lee yesterday. He continues to ruin me for other acts. If there aren't 19 different layers and nuances and refracted self-referential dimensions in there, along with extraordinary wordplay and exquisite timing, what's the point? He said he'd like to play the O2, just going on - and on and on and Ariston - about receipt etiquette. The ( Read more... )

Going through my Edinburgh notebooks.

“I think he is a funny librarian but you have to have seen a lot of other librarians to find it funny.”

Still ♥ Stewart Lee.

Stewart Lee may possibly tour Michael McIntyre's show next year. Awesome.

In a Guardian interview at the start of the month, he told Sean O'Hagan:
"It would be verbatim, word-for-word, gag by gag like some weird recreation," he says, cracking up at the very thought. Why on earth would he want to do that? "Oh, just to see if I could inject any ( Read more... )

In the BBC's Broadcasting House yesterday evening, a mere 20 hours after Stu's masterful diatribe, where I found both a series of portraits of the corporation's stars and someone thoroughly in alignment with Lee's thoughts on Chris Moyles. Thusly:


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Whenever folk comment on my YouTube videos, I get an email informing me so. The offensive ones* I remove; most I leave, as they are generally positive or in some way pointful. Today I was informed of one fellow who has added some entertaining swears to a clip of Lee & Herring, of which my favourite is "Trumpton-felchers", as it is so very ( Read more... )

We are fascinating, us young liberal coves, so confident in our open-mindedness we will joke about the most hurtful things. Our banter can be vile, but heavily cloaked in irony, mocking the very prejudices we appear to hold and thus not only permissible but encouraged. 'Racist' is now an insult to be bandied about carelessly, theoretically the ( Read more... )

Some facts about Stewart Lee:

1. Unnervingly, for a man who seemed to be absolutely at his comedy peak three or four years ago, he has gone up another level and become truly dazzling. (Feel free to pass on the rumour that he destroyed Level Boss Richard Pryor in order to attain these heights. And that you saw him carrying the massive commemorative ( Read more... )