Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
- TV stand-up / sketch show
- BBC Two
- 2009 - 2016
- 24 episodes (4 series)
Stand-up comedy show, punctuated with sketches. Stewart Lee tackle a different topic each week in his own inimitable fashion. Also features Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Peter Serafinowicz, Paul Putner, Kevin Eldon and more.
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Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, TV review
This comedy about comedy would be unforgivably self-indulgent if Stewart Lee wasn't just as incisive on every other facet of modern life as he is on his own comedic genius.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent, 2nd March 2014Radio Times review
Stewart Lee is a stand-up who doesn't do stand-up. He doesn't tell gags; often he isn't very funny. Fellow comedians hate him - he's pleased with Lee Mack's description of him as a "cultural bully from the Oxbridge Mafia" and he's regularly denounced on Twitter as "fat" and "depressed-looking" and much, much worse.
So he's an acquired taste. I like him, though I don't know why, possibly because he's astute and clever. He takes the Twitter loathing and turns it around, pulping the social network site and its users as "a state surveillance agency staffed by gullible volunteers... it's the Stasi for the Angry Birds generation". If you don't laugh at that, then possibly this show isn't for you.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 1st March 2014Preview: Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, BBC Two
Let's hope this series picks up some new fans as well as his usual followers who watch him with religious devotion. Well, I say religious devotion, but, of course, as I said, god doesn't exist.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th February 2014Chris Morris: the comeback starts here
After a rare stage appearance at Stewart Lee's recent stand-up gig, the Brass Eye comedian is returning to TV. Now, more than ever, we need a satirist with his fearlessness.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 20th February 2014Chris Morris joins Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle Series 3
Stewart Lee will be interviewed by Chris Morris during the third series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, starting next week.
British Comedy Guide, 19th February 2014Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle to return for two more series
BBC Two stand-up series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle has been recommissioned - for two further runs.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2012Is stand-up comedy becoming homogeneous and dull? If so, enter Stewart Lee, with his talent for deconstructing that very comedy, and the laconic delivery to make it hilarious, not dry. The antidote to Live At The Apollo and the like.
Radio Times, 31st December 2011The 13th best programme of 2011 according to the Radio Times.
Stand-up comedy is experiencing a boom - just look at the TV schedules, or the number of comics plugging DVDs this Christmas - but it's also becoming homogenous and dull. Enter Stewart Lee, with his unique talent for deconstructing that very comedy, and the laconic delivery to make it hilarious, not dry. Not afraid to tackle the big issues, Lee nevertheless often ends up talking mostly about crisps.
Paul Jones, Radio Times, 15th December 2011DVD review - Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Uncompromising, awkward and confrontational style and content cements reputation.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 28th June 2011Video: Stewart Lee on music, politics and prostests
Comedian Stewart Lee compared Glastonbury to the House of Commons as he discussed whether music was losing its political message and the power of protest with Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson.
Andrew Neill, BBC News, 24th June 2011