Stewart Lee: Scrambled Egg

Stewart Lee's new Edinburgh show is a literal egg box of laughs. Having spent much of the year in his hard-pressed job as a stand-up comedian (the hardest job in the world apparently) writing new routines and plagiarising his own substantial back catalogue for next year's BBC series 'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle,' the squashed Albert Finney conjured up the conceit of using a box of numbered eggs to randomly determine each night's set-list. Unless you're attending the half-price preview before the Fringe has really begun, in which the comedian confesses he hasn't learned all of the routines yet, and an audience member is offered the more limited selection of choosing any ...  Read the complete review