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Stewart Lee - 41st Best Stand-up Ever
Thursday 20 March
8pm
Stand Comedy Club
Price £10/ £8 conc
0870 600 6050
If you see only 50 stand-ups in your life make Stewart Lee
your 41st.
Recently, Stewart charted at 41 Channel 4’s spurious list of The 100
Best Stand-Ups. His mother, whom he loves dearly, thinks Tom O’Connor
the better comedian, having seen him do a joke about a sardine on a
cruise ship ten years ago. And he isn’t even in the top 100...
Nevertheless, awash with his success, Stewart brings his sell-out
Edinburgh Fringe show to Glasgow for one night only.
Earning his stand-up wings at the age of 20, Stewart became one of
the most hard-working and influential comedians of the 90s. As well as
performing stand-up almost every night on the London circuit, he
contributed to On The Hour with Steve Coogan and Chris
Morris and, with comedy partner (and fellow festival attendee)
Richard Herring, created Fist of Fun and This Morning With
Richard Not Judy which became beloved cult classics on BBC Radio 1
and BBC2.
Away from the spotlight, he directed The Mighty Boosh in their
breakthrough live show Arctic Boosh and took a four year break from
comedy to focus on novels and theatre. The undoubted highlight of this
secondment was his co-creation and direction of the global phenomenon
Jerry Springer: The Opera, which led to four Olivier Awards
following its National Tour run and no little controversy after it was
broadcast on BBC1.
In 2004, Stewart made a hugely welcome return to stand-up with hit
Edinburgh Fringe shows Stand Up Comedian and, the following year,
‘90s Comedian.
Continuing to add strings to his bow, Stewart wrote a Channel 5 film
about blasphemy, created and performed his solo theatre piece What
Would Judas Do? at London’s Bush Theatre and began his weekly music
writings for The Sunday Times.
Ever versatile, the breadth of Stewart Lee’s talents will be on
display at this year’s Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
The Tron Theatre plays host to a run of his historical satire Johnson
and Boswell: Late But Live!, whilst his one night engagement at The
Stand promises to be a masterclass in dry, ideas-driven stand-up.
www.stewartlee.co.uk
Press Quotes
‘Lee is like an angry young man trapped in the body of a mature and
hugely intelligent one. That is a killer combination. He then wraps it
up by brilliantly and irrefutably justifying everything he has just
said. And adds a little belly-laugh as a coda. This is comedy as an
ideologically lethal weapon, in the hands of a crack shot.’ Scotsman
‘Lee's subtlety and intelligence that make his act exceptional. He
does very little - no silly voices, no props, no gurning, no sound
effects. But he is so sure of his grip on the crowd, which at times was
close to hypnotic, that he can stop halfway through a joke to await the
doubled wave of laughter that will come when the audience work out the
punchline for themselves.’ Guardian
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