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Stewart Lee - 41st Best Stand-Up Ever!

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Stewart Lee - 41st Best Stand-Up Ever! ... on Cowgate is the original Underbelly and the thriving home to some of the best talent and bars in town. 'Make a pilgrimage to Underbelly' Scotsman. 'A vertical Glastonbury, every nook filled with bohemian activity' Telegraph. Bars 'til 4am.

Newest Review: ... more obscure comedy of his contemporaries, Stewart’s new show seems designed to provoke and annoy any mainstream comedy fans who may be approaching his work for the first time, taking his penchant for endless, irritating repetition and running it further into the ground than ever before. The success of such routines is based on a Fast Show/Little Britain-style anticipation of the coming ... more

... remark, dissected as far back as the memorable ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’ sketch on Lee and Herring’s ‘Fist of Fun’ that refused to embellish the fable’s events to comic effect in order to produce a comic effect, but unlike some of Stewart’s more recent shows the...more

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Edinburgh Fringe 2007: Stewart Lee - 41st Best Stand-Up Ever ... (852 words)
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The advantage of any live performance, from theatre and music to stand-up comedy, is that each event is somehow an individual and unique experience (unless we count the comedy of Peter Kay), the nuances of which will become lost in time but the memories of which can stay with you forever. Now officially proclaimed the ‘41st Best Stand-Up Ever’ in a meaningless Channel 4 poll that the comedian prefers to embrace as fact, particularly as many of his friends were placed further down the list, Stewart Lee’s entire career remains haunted by his mother’s relentless repetition of a witty observation made by 1980s gameshow host Tom O’Connor on a cruise in the early 1990s, which ... Read the complete review