Walking around outside, looking at things, crushing my enemies and seeing them driven before me and hearing the lamentations of their women.
Music
Dust Harvest, Derek Bailey, of Hackney and Barcelona, Iva Bittova, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, The Fall, Giant Sand, Howe Gelb, and Tucson music, Guided By Voices, Scott Walker, Billy Jenkins, Evan Parker, Eleventh Dream Day, Yo La Tengo, and Paisley Underground (Rain Parade, Dream Syndicate, Long Ryders and that kind of stuff). Old reggae, old blues, trad British folk music (Martin Carthy, Dick Gaughan, Bert Jansch, old Fairport Convention, Trees, etc) and psychy-folk rock, the C86 bands of my youth, 60's psyche and garage, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Television, Quicksilver Messenger Service, punky power-pop, Posies, Plimsouls, free improvised jazz things, country rock, The Byrds, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo. Dave Graney, The Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, The Beasts of Bourbon, and all grizzled Australians.
Movies
Culloden, London, Robinson In Space, La Cabina, Spinal Tap, Seven Samurai, Paris Texas, Hal Hartley, Italian Westerns, Django, Once Upon A Time In The West, Laurel and Hardy, The Edge Of The World, Gallivant, Shane Meadows, Dead Man's Shoes, Round Midnight, Shawshank Redemption, Last Resort, My Summer Of Love, Bombon El Perro, P Almodovar, The Story Of The Weeping Camel, Whistle And I'll Come To You, D Argento, Suspiria, Herzog's Loch Ness, Grizzly Man, Wicker Man, Local Hero, Dogma films, Festen, The Idiots.
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, The Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, Children Of The Stones, history doc's, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Star Trek TNG, Paxman, OGWT, D Attenborough.
Books
William Blake, Arthur Machen, Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence, Dan Rhodes, Ray Bradbury, Julian Cope, Eric Linklater, Neil M Gunn, Stan Lee, Phillip Larkin, Alasdair Gray, William Golding, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alan Moore, David Jones, Peter Ackroyd, Daredevil comics, Frank Waters, Steve Aylett, Robert E Howard, Beowulf.
Heroes
Spiderman, King Arthur, Jeff Lint
Stewart Lee's Details
Status:
Married
Religion:
Atheist
Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
Occupation:
writer/director/clown
Stewart Lee's Companies
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Below is 41st Best Stand-up Ever dvd. The feature show was captured in extreme close-up at The Stand comedy club in Glasgow last April. In addition to this 75 minute show, extras on the DVD include a 45 minute interview conducted by Johnny Vegas, and a live performance at a conference of Entomologists.
You can get it online from Amazon and most good DVD retailers now… Or you can pick it up instore from HMV, Zavvi, etc.
Shows:
1987 - 1st Edinburgh Fringe shows.
1988 - 1st stand-up gigs.
1989 - 1st London gigs.
1990 - Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year, start of ongoing stand-up career... as of 2006 19 Edinburgh Festivals, 3 Montreals, 2 Melbournes, 2 Adelaides, 1 Kilkenny, 2 Leicesters etc etc.
1991 - Write for On The Hour, BBC Radio 4, and Spitting Image, ITV.
1992 - Write and appear in Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World, with Richard Herring, BBC Radio 4.
1994 - Write and appear in Fist of Fun, BBC Radio 1, with Richard Herring, which transfers for two TV series, BBC2, 1995, 96.
1995 and following, appear in Simon Munnery's Club Zarathustra, Edinburgh. Start writing music stuff for Sunday Times.
1996 - Failed Club Z pilot for C4.
1997-98 This Morning With Richard Not Judy, BBC2, and script editing for Harry Hill, Al Murray.
1999 - Direct Mighty Boosh in Edinburgh.
2000 - direct Simon Munnery's Attention Scum for BBC2.
2001 - Start contributing to and directing Richard Thomas' Jerry Springer The Opera. Novel The Perfect Fool published.
2002 - Pea Green Boat at Traverse, Edinburgh, and BAC, and on radio 4.
2003 - JSTO at National Theatre. Olivier awards etc.
2004 - Stand-Up Comedian at Ed Frin.
2005 - Stand-Up Comedian @ Melbourne, Auckland. 90's Comedian at Ed Frin. Stand-up DVD Stand-up Comedian released.
2006 - direct Talk Radio in Edinburgh, 90's Comedian @ Montreal. 90's Comedian DVD through GoFasterStripe.
2007 - What Would Judas Do?, monologe at Bush Thetare. INTERIORS with Johnny Vegas @ M'cr Festival. New s-up show '41st Best Stand-Up Ever' and play Johnson And Boswell Late But Live @ Ed Fringe.
2008 - Work in progress stand-up show SCRAMBLED EGG, and wrote ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH - LATE BUT LIVE for Edinburgh 2008. DVD released of 41st Best Stand Up Ever.
2009 - BBC2 series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
DVD 90'S COMEDIAN, AND PEA GREEN BOAT AUDIO CD, AVAILABLE AT WWW.GOFASTERSTRIPE.COM £10
DVD 41ST BEST STAND-UP EVER AVAILABLE JULY 28TH 2008, SHOPS, AMAZON ETC
Who I'd like to meet: Your results: You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man
100%
Iron Man
75%
Green Lantern
70%
Robin
60%
The Flash
55%
Catwoman
55%
Hulk
50%
Superman
40%
Batman
20%
Supergirl
20%
Wonder Woman
20%
You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.
Hello Stewart! On Friday night you were my 1st best stand-up of the week out of seven. On the way to the theatre I saw a pear on the pavement. Just one pear. A little yellow one. There were no pear trees around; neither were there any fruit shops. It might've been waiting to cross the road. I don't know. 100% coincidence too?
Hi Stew saw the show in Swansea on thursday, really excellent but why no tired welsh jokes in a comedy accent? Very disappointed. Also, what's happened to plagiarists corner? Surely it was inevitable that someone was going to comment on it at some point (you are, after all, quite blatantly accusing someone of stealing jokes) but if it's true then surely you should stand by it? Seems a little odd to do something so obviously contentious and the stop it as soon as someone notices (personally I can't think of anything better than to make Jack Haircutshire look a fool). Your site though, so err, do as you please! Keep up the excellent work anyway, keep us posted about when you're going to be the star in the reasonably priced car...
my chum and I greatly enjoyed your visit to the Stockton Arc. Hope you don't mind, but we are making efforts to incorporate your traditional family phrase, passed down through the generations, into our everyday language. I think it is important to reclaim things like this from the ad-men who steal them.
See you tonight then 'Stewart Lee', if that really is your name! I did ask for a milder comedian when booking tickets, to which the venue recommended i wait a month for 'Rhod Gilbert'. I very excitedly said 'YES, OH GOD YES THAT SOUNDS AMAZING', the lady on the phone asked if i was being sarcastic - I answered 'No.... you are'. She hung up so I waited a day to call back to book the tickets properly, in fear of being remembered as the twat who called yesterday.
still, made me laugh.... and im pretty sure thats what other people are here for, My amusement! :)
Great show in Southend Sunday night. You seemed a bit off after the show but I assure you the material went down well with us estuary-dwellers. You should make some more DVDs though, seeing as I previously paid for the other ones properly with actual money and everything :)
Was a great show in The Grand. Thank you for the chuckles and hope that you continue to break legs on the rest of the tour (in the theatrical good luck sense of course, I am in no way implying that you actually break legs) :)
Looking forward to seeing you on 21st at Camberley. Apparantly Pasquale is playing there on the 17th, and according to the radio he's been taking boxing lessons for the last couple of years, so watch your back.
I had a very cute pic of some bunnies which due to your denial of HTML code means none of your fans will ever see them. How cruel, how utterly selfish. What kind of inhuman monster are you?
Hey Stew, thanks for the add. I just dropped by to say I'm a huge fan of all the work that I've seen of you, particularly your comedy vehicle and your complete destruction of Ben Elton, and Joe Pasquale for that matter. Oh and I loved the way you ended "41st best stand up comedian", very original. I've just started to have a crack at stand up myself, but I've only done one show, looking to do more in the future. I see from your page that the last time you came to New Zealand was 2005, do you have any plans of coming back? That would be great....until then hopefully you get a second series of your comedy vehicle, best work on tv since the office in my opinion.
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