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Stewart Lee has revealed how he was once minding his own business sitting in the street in Camden Town when he was mistaken for a homeless person.
Lee was talking to Kate Thornton on her White Wine Question Time podcast.
A signed and annotated book of lyrics/music for Jerry Springer The Opera is being auctioned for charity. The item, dating from 2004, is printed and bound and has a vocal score by Richard Thomas with, according to the front page, "some bits by Stewart Lee."
Bids of between £1000 and £10000 are invited. According to the website the highest current bid is £300.
Stewart Lee explores the links between Birmingham and surrealism in a new Radio 4 documentary.
Lee takes us into a world of life-sized chess pieces, alcohol-guzzling nuns and crucified naked bespectacled men. The story of British Surrealism began, not in Bohemian north London, but in a Birmingham suburb.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that Comedian and screenwriter Stewart Lee will rewrite a contemporary version of the Porter scene, featuring Alison Peebles as the Porter, in Wils Wilson’s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s gripping and brutal tragedy, Macbeth.
Stewart Lee's guide to the graves of comedians is one of the contributions to a new alternative online series launching this week made by Holly and David, aka The Lovely Eggs.
Teaming up with artist Casey Raymond, Eggs TV embarks on a televisual odyssey, shining a light on alternative and underground art, music and British subculture, "sucking you spiralling down the plughole into The Lovely Eggs’ distinctly odd and off the wall universe."
Stewart Lee, Paul Sinha and Bridget Christie are among the acts who have announced Edinburgh Fringe dates at The Stand this August. Available to buy from The Stand’s website from March 20th – and from edfringe.com from March 30th – they join the prestigious Edinburgh comedy club’s Fringe roster which comprises 4 rooms around York Place and The Stand’s New Town Theatre on 96 George Street.
Was Stewart Lee's first-ever joke to be broadcast on television aired on the children's television programme Tiswas when he was barely a teenager?
A clip has surfaced of an episode of the show from September 19, 1981, in which presenter Sally James reads out jokes sent in from viewers as part of a competition and one of them is from a "Stewart Lee from Solihull". According to Wikipedia Lee grew up in Solihull and went to school there.
The 30th Anniversary of Leicester Comedy Festival launches today with a huge line up of comedians performing across Leicester from 8th – 26th February 2023. The Festival is also announcing Eshaan Akbar, Jo Brand, Sikisa and Stewart Lee joining Tony Slattery, as new Patrons. Rosie Jones and Michael Rosen are announced as new patrons of The UK Kids’ Comedy Festival.
Has Ricky Gervais responded to Stewart Lee's criticisms of his recent comedy drama work?
There have been stories recently of how Stewart Lee has a low opinion of Ricky Gervais' TV comedy drama output.
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