Stewart Lee – A Room With A Stew

Comedian Stewart Lee plays the audience with the deft skill and apparent magic of a theramin maestro. This extra date of a tour engineered to preview material for a television show that has already been recorded was a delight of orchestrated awkwardness, apparent tangents that take us into forests of Lee’s top notch material, and a breakdown that was – perversely – a marvellously unique joy to witness. Sending up the bitter and jealous expectation of ‘a comedian’ with a glimpse of a gleefully corpsed grin, Lee’s deconstruction of his comedy art is truly his own, showing up and gently mocking the imitators in his wake. Such glorious wicked fun.

Concert Hall, Brighton Dome, 27 January 2016

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