STEWART LEE

Over a decade ago, Stewart Graham Lee was on telly, with an inexplicable hair cut and some snazzy waistcoats (in the first series at least), dancing about with comedy partner Richard Keith Herring. A decade later, and he is making his 15th(???- check) Fringe appearance, his first full run since 2001. The last few years has found a very busy lee, publishing his first novel, The Perfect Fool, directing Simon Munnery’s award winning Attention Scum, presenting his regular radio show on Resonance FM, and of course co-writing and directing the multi-award winning Jerry Spring The Opera. With all these projects on the go, Lee had given up stand up until last year’s Fringe, when he did some late night shows while in Edinburgh directing Johnny Vegas’ DVD. This year’s welcome return brings a more reflective and relaxed Lee, in the up and coming exciting venue of The Underbelly, which seems to have become the hothouse for developing new talent and championing new ideas at the Fringe. Stewart Lee is the comedian’s comedian, the comedy connoisseur’s comedian, a comedian for all people. His extended set pieces are a particular delight, as he follows every idea to it’s inevitable and exhaustive conclusion, and you will have the opportunity to hear some of the old classics – fingers crossed for the “Have you been sick?” routine making a welcome appearance – at The Assembly Rooms INSERT NAME OF WHATEVER THAT SHOW IS CALLED.