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Saner, Emine (23 June 2011). "Stewart Lee: 'Things going badly is a big part of what I do' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 July 2011. He uses it here too; tons of footnotes expound bits of his set and provide insights – often hilarious – into the way his idiosyncratic brain works.Harold’s Stones in Trellech are said to have been flung into the village during a competition between a wizard and the devil. Photograph: Homer Sykes/Alamy

FEB 3 rd London New Cross Inn, 9 th Falmouth Princess Pavilion, 15 th M’cr Band On The Wall, 16 th Kinross Green Hotel, NOV 19 TH Exeter Phoenix The films were presumably destined to be sold to a UK broadcaster – either BBC or ITV – but they seem to only have been shown at schools and ended up languishing in public libraries. Last weekend I found myself trapped on an isolated, monster- infested Pacific atoll with a pair of twin psychic Japanese schoolgirls. A skyscraper-sized lizard, with three fire-breathing heads, the result of careless radioactive experiments in the 50s, and now a huge and clumsy metaphor for both the dangers of human scientific meddling with Mother Nature and postwar Japanese identity anxiety, had cornered us in a cave on the beach. * 1

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What are days for?" asks the curmudgeonly poet Philip Larkin in his poem Days, questioning the very point of living. He is unable to offer any real comfort, concluding: "Ah, solving that question/brings the priest and the doctor/in their long coats/running over the fields." For Larkin the idea of days, and what to do with them, represents the problem of existence boiled down to its barest essentials. I have a similar relationship with shelves. My wife, of course, finds this turn of events ridiculous, but she will be laughing on the other side of her stupid face when the flyblown briefs she currently uses as dishcloths become priceless collector’s items. During late 2000 and early 2001, Lee retired from stand-up comedy. [13] 2001 became the first year since 1987 that he did not perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [14] While Lee found himself gradually performing less stand-up and moving away from the stage, he continued his directorial duties on television. Two pilots were made for Channel 4, Cluub Zarathustra and Head Farm, but neither was developed into a series. The former featured all the ingredients that would later appear in Attention Scum, a BBC Two series fronted by Simon Munnery's "League Against Tedium" character, which also featured Kevin Eldon, Johnny Vegas and Roger Mann, as well as Richard Thomas and opera singer Lore Lixenberg.

Sixteen months ago there was a mass die-off of marine life in the North Sea off Teesside. It was an extinction event: a catastrophe on a scale no one in Britain has ever experienced. Along 30 miles of coast, from Hartlepool to Whitby, the beaches were piled with hundreds of thousands of dead and dying crabs and lobster, some still twitching in agony. GINA SOUTHGATE From Live Music. Art exhibition by the abstract artist who paints, in real time, musicians improvising. ALAN DAVIE – PAINTING MUSIC FILM The artist and musician remembered FEB 2 ND London Café Oto. ABSTRACT JAZZ ART DIARY CLASH W GINA SOUTHGATE AT RIVERSIDE. Has this ever happened before? Dartmoor is a weird place; temporal dislocation comes with the territory. Wayfinding is not easy among this gorse, these rambling tors and secluded brooks. And when an autumn mist descends, you can be transported: a bronze age farmer to your left, a medieval tin miner to your right, and up ahead the lord of the manor has antiquarian ambitions. He’s just repositioned those stones. The earth gnomes don’t approve. Lee, Stewart (3 January 2012). Stewart Lee! The 'If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One' EP. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571279852.Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle cancelled by the BBC". The Telegraph. 7 May 2016 . Retrieved 11 May 2016. And since January I have been wearing four or five new pairs of pants a day, all of which will eventually take pride of place, when suitably soiled, in vending machines on the streets of Tokyo’s most fashionable districts. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately.

And in the increasingly likely event of a British Brexit, the sale of these fetishised items will then fund our family’s relocation to the newly independent free Scotland, from where I will harry the airwaves of England and Wales with liberally biased leftwing satire, the Lord Haw-Haw of sparkling-wine socialism. a b Donaldson, Brian (25 February 2010). "If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask for One – Stewart Lee interview". The List. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020 . Retrieved 5 May 2010. Now comedy historian Robert Wringham has compiled an extended pictorial interview with Irvine, entitled Melt It! The Book of the Iceman, which is published today by indie label Go Faster Stripe. Indeed, the day when Boris Johnson cynically accused the pro-Europe and “part-Kenyan” President Obama of being ancestrally ill-disposed towards Britain marks the moment at which the mayor of London changed from being merely a twat into a full-blown cunt. Kemp, Ella (2 February 2022). "Stewart Lee also leaves Spotify in Joe Rogan boycott". NME . Retrieved 4 February 2022.

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John Cage – Indeterminacy – Steve Beresford, Tania Chen, and Stewart Lee [2012] (Knitted Records, CD) Campaign launched for Asian Dub Foundation and Stewart Lee's song to be Brexit Number One". NME. 29 December 2020. The book features a foreword by Munnery and an afterword by Stewart Lee, who says: ‘I am so glad this book exists … another of Wringham’s essential mini-masterpieces.’ How I Escaped My Certain Fate charts Lee’s return to the (fairly) big time, via a surprising route that included him being prosecuted for blasphemy. APRIL 25 th M’cr New Century, 26 th Glasgow St Luke’s, 27 th L’pool Tung, 28 th Leeds City Varieties, MAY 3 rd Cardiff Gate, 5 th London Barbican