Stewart Lee
Articles by Stewart Lee
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Comedy
The big art sell-off
- 02 August 2010
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The effect of David Cameron’s “big society” will be to drive artists and performers into the arms of corporate sponsors interested only in big names and easy publicity pickings.
Culture
When a knob joke is better than Brecht
- 22 August 2005
Comedy has ruined Edinburgh. The Fringe, formerly a venue for alternative theatre, is now merely a showcase for gagsters who wannabe on telly. Or so goes the criticism. Stewart Lee, writer/director of Jerry Springer: the opera, doesn't think much of it











