Stewart Lee: Content Provider. Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee: Content Provider

Stewart Lee: Content Provider

  • TV stand-up
  • BBC Two
  • 2018
  • 1 episode

Stand-up comedy special from Stewart Lee. Also features Alan Moore.

Press clippings

"That's right! Clap the things you agree with!" After the Comedy Vehicle, a film of Lee's touring stand-up show gave fans just what they wanted: an even more meta tirade, often directed at them. The extended riff on Brexit deservedly went viral.

The Guardian, 3rd December 2018

Review: Stewart Lee, Content Provider

There is nothing new about creating an exaggerated version of oneself for humorous effect, yet the road-hardened veteran has made this style his own.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th July 2018

Stewart Lee: unfunny face of comedy says Garry Bushell

Stewart Lee was on TV for two hours last night, although it felt much longer.

Garry Bushell, Daily Star, 29th July 2018

Denouncing Brexit, selfie culture and himself ("I'm coming to despise the character of Stewart Lee"), the standup's standup du jour imparts wisdom in this April 2018 set, on a stage constructed from budget DVDs of other comics' live shows. Less a comedian than a bleak prophet in his own time.

Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 28th July 2018

Stewart Lee on Content Provider

"I am road-worn, shapeless and undignified, a relic, revelling in my own irrelevance."

Stewart Lee, i Newspaper, 25th July 2018

An appraisal of Stewart Lee's Content Provider stand-up

Stewart Lee had promised to write an article for Chortle about the imminent airing of his stand-up special on BBC Two. But his publicist told us he was far too busy doing the washing and the ironing to submit anything. So instead we have secured the services of comedy archivist Ewal Street, of www.goodbyemotherinlaw.com, to assess the show...

Chortle, 23rd July 2018

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