Topic: Stewart Lee
Comedian Stewart Lee isn't just brilliant at telling jokes - he also deconstructs them as part of his act. But with younger comics stealing his...
Tweet . Breaking Bad . . I've been completely addicted to this programme, about a high-school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer who starts...
If you've never been to a stand-up gig, Stewart Lee is probably not the best place to start. But if you've recently been bitten by the comedy bug and yearn for something more considered than the McIntyre, Manford and Bishop ...
Being a comedian is a great way to be the life of the party. Sarcastic humor is the staple of many tv shows like Seinfeld and The Office. Demetri Martin, Dat Phan, Mitch Hedberg, George Wallace, Jim Gaffigan, Patton Oswalt, Emo Phillips ...
It is impossible to produce an irreverent historical comedy without inviting comparisons with Blackadder and this romp certainly knows it. Writer Stewart Lee even makes a pre-emptive strike by namechecking Baldrick and co's authors Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. The tissue-thin ...
The season of turkey, goodwill and consumerism might seem a long way off yet, but a December performance of " Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People" that includes a turn by Richard Dawkins and the Guardian's own Ben Goldacre has already ...
Aggressive intermittent showers may have encroached on the weekend but there were enough hours of factor-30 sunshine to keep the 25,000 cheerful. Promenade was the buzzword at the theatre tent, too, where few were in the right place at the right ...
DVD OF THE WEEK THERE WILL BE BLOOD Miramax Film, 15, ?17.99 ***** For the first, captivatingly wordless, 20 minutes of this powerful multi-award-laden epic we watch lone 19th-century prospector Daniel Plainview (equally multi-award-laden Daniel Day-Lewis) struggle to wrench value from the ...
Richard Herring **** Stewart Lee ****. Richard Herring has been coming to Edinburgh for two decades, doing sketches, plays and cod-lectures, but his latest stand-up show, Oh F*ck, I'm 40, is his most successful yet. Though not before our hero has confessed ...
In 1773, Dr Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell took a trip around Scotland and wrote journals about their experiences. Writer and comedian Stewart Lee, co-creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera, has imagined a scenario in which their books are being ...
