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Stewart Lee

April 2024

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a film reel containing pictures of a person being quoted

    Context is vital. That’s why I’m filming everything I say and do from now on

    Stewart Lee
    As Gideon Falter’s standoff with the police demonstrates, it’s important to be able to see the bigger picture

September 2023

  • Valene Kane and Reuben Joseph in Macbeth.

    Macbeth review – a strenuously fresh reading with one-liners by Stewart Lee

    Benefitting from a Scottish cast and a rewritten Porter’s speech by Lee, Wils Wilson’s production gets at the demonic drive of people desperate for power but hopeless in office

July 2023

  • Cartoon of mortar board or graduation cap over a face with a lightbulb for one eye and a pound sign for the other

    If the Tory degree plan is dopey, look who’s selling it

    Stewart Lee
    Those charged with explaining the policy had been sent into the field without any clear idea of what the word ‘good’ actually meant

March 2023

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Brexit has reversed the brains of Sunak and Starmer

    Stewart Lee
    The prime minister now supports the EU more enthusiastically than Labour and it’s hard to know which way is up

December 2022

  • Stewart Lee, Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman, Beverley Knight and Sharon Rose, and Abba.

    The anti-hibernation culture guide: something to enjoy for every day in January

    You can spend the next few weeks under the duvet and in front of the telly, or enjoy world-class art, theatre, music, film and standup – here’s an event for each of the next 31 days

September 2022

  • One man, one microphone … Stewart Lee in Basic Lee at Leicester Square theatre.

    Stewart Lee review – underpowered show still stronger than most

  • Circus street performer Reidiculous performs at the Edinburgh fringe.

    ‘We need an intervention’: five ways to fix the Edinburgh festival fringe

  • TV review
    The Great British Bake Off review – the beautiful sight of Britain healing itself through cake

  • Stewart Lee

    Honest playlist
    ‘My life would be very different without the Fall’: Stewart Lee’s honest playlist

July 2022

  • Three of Edinburgh’s finest … Phil Wang, Sophie Duker and Ian McKellen.

    Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

    Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

June 2022

  • Illustration of bottles labelled 'wine time friday', 'late night lobby face' and 'cheap booze'

    Dorries slips the leash to clear up the Big Dog’s mess

    Stewart Lee
    The loose-cannon culture secretary said the quiet bits out loud in a week of Conservative pantomime

April 2022

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Why Brexit Britain is turning purple with shame

    Stewart Lee
  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Is Nadine Dorries bird-brained or what?

    Stewart Lee

March 2022

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Rishi Sunak is taking us for mugs. £180 smart mugs

    Stewart Lee
    The wealth that sustains the chancellor’s fancy coffee cup is in no immediate danger, no matter how long the war in the east continues

December 2021

  • Shonen Knife … from left, Atsuko Yamano, Risa Kawano and Naoko Yamano.

    40 years of Japanese rockers Shonen Knife: ‘Nirvana looked wild – I was so scared!’

    With songs about jellybeans and feline transformations, the Osaka band brought joy and fun to a serious punk-rock scene. After decades of cult hits, frontwoman Naoko Yamano explains why she wants to end up the world’s oldest rock star

October 2021

  • Ithell Colquhoun, Alcove, 1946, 22.9 x 34.3cm, Oil on board, © Samaritans, The Noise Abatement Society and Spire Healthcare Group PLC

    Touched by the hand of Ithell: my fascination with a forgotten surrealist

    Ithell Colquhoun’s fecund, fleshy paintings were soaked in mysticism. But was she running my life from beyond the grave?

September 2020

  • Lee Evans

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    A funny thing happened: stunning portraits of stellar standups – in pictures

    From Ken Dodd and his tickling stick to Nina Conti and her monkey, Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton has snapped a host of superb comedians on stage

July 2020

  • Shirley Collins and Stewart Lee

    'Our collective imagination could die away': Stewart Lee and Shirley Collins in conversation

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Of course there's a future for the British fishing industry – on stage

    Stewart Lee

May 2020

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    We must honour those brave souls… working with Ricky Gervais

    Stewart Lee
    The people caught up in the terrible disaster of the Wokefinder’s new series deserve our deepest sympathy
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