Shrek star Mike Myers has cited the Iceman as one of his all-time comedy favourites; Bill Bailey describes him as ‘a legend’ and Jo Brand describes him as ‘a true performance artist’.

THE CHAMELEONS Most convincing line-up for years of the always emotionally edifying Big Music should-have-beens.

FROM THE STALINIST WOKE DIKTATORSHAFT GULAG OF Stewart Lee FEB 2023.1

This cat died in mysterious circumstances in 2017. We were all inconsolably distraught, to the point where friends and relatives must have worried that we had lost all sense of perspective. But for the first 10 years of our marriage, my wife and I toured our standup acts relentlessly, trying to consolidate our appeal before it was too late, one of us away performing, the other at home parenting tiny children, in lonely rotation. And that cat was a constant, the family member you saw when you got in at 4am from Telford, waiting to greet you and welcome you home. He was a conduit that closed all four of us into a circle. How many substandard spaghetti westerns did I watch in the small hours, with the cat my only companion? How many late nights would I have spent drinking alone to kill the post-show adrenaline, like some sad alcoholic, unless that cat had been sitting up with me, making a legitimate social event of what would otherwise have been evidence of a gradual slide into a terrible addiction? “Have you caught any mice today?” I would ask him. That cat saved our marriage, I suspect, and when he knew we would be OK, he sensed his work was done and took himself away. Anyone who doesn’t like cats must be dead inside. Hall, Julian (11 August 2007). "The Saturday Profile: Stewart Lee, King of the Fringe". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 5 February 2011 . Retrieved 5 May 2010. KIM NOBLE – LULLABY FOR SCAVENGERS Rend your heart and mind once again with more of Noble’s art-comedy genius Lee's influences include Ted Chippington, Arnold Brown, Norman Lovett, Jerry Sadowitz, Simon Munnery, Kevin McAleer and Johnny Vegas. [43] [44]

Dessau, Bruce (19 July 2013). "Should standup comedians write all their own jokes?". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 July 2018. Stand-up turned comedy historian Oliver Double says: ‘I’ve long known about the legend of the Iceman, but I’m sorry to say I’ve never seen his act nor shared a bill with him on the circuit. Maxwell, Dominic (28 September 2009). "Stewart Lee: 'hate all popular culture' ". The Times . Retrieved 20 May 2010. None of which greatly diminishes the pleasures of this two-hour set: Lee firing on only a few cylinders is still a richer comedy experience than many acts with engines at full throttle. It may not be pure, simple or classic Lee. But it’s a chance to see this most meticulous of standups let it all hang out – and that’s a chance worth taking. YO LA TENGO Gods of American indie APRIL 10 TH Dublin 3Olympia, 12 th M’cr New Century, 13 th Bristol SWX, 14 th London Palladium,a b Donaldson, Brian (25 February 2010). "If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask for One – Stewart Lee interview". The List. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020 . Retrieved 5 May 2010. Stand Up for Nerve Tumours UK Comedy Fundraiser with Stewart Lee, Paul Foot, Laura Lexx, Lara Ricote, Dan Tiernan, Celya AB, William Stone with MC Jessica Fostekew. As a teacher, I’m keen to give examples of speciality acts so I’m always scouring for stuff about the Iceman. This book sounds brilliant.’ Lee married comedian Bridget Christie in 2006, [7] [54] [55] although they have 'amicably parted' and have been living separately since 2021, according to a statement issued to Chortle. [56] He lives in Stoke Newington and has two children. [57] [7] [49] [58] He is a patron of Humanists UK, a member of Arts Emergency [59] and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. [60] [61] [62] GINA SOUTHGATE From Live Music. Art exhibition by the abstract artist who paints, in real time, musicians improvising.

In 2001, Lee published his first novel, The Perfect Fool. [12] In the same year he performed Pea Green Boat, a stand-up show which revolved around the deconstruction of the Edward Lear poem " The Owl and the Pussycat" and a tale of his own broken toilet. This would later be condensed to focus mainly on the poem itself, and a 15-minute version aired on Radio 4. In 2007, Go Faster Stripe released a 25-minute edit on CD and 10" Vinyl. Can we please keep this sort of hysteria out of the EU debate? We need sober analysis and reflection, not this. And in the increasingly likely event of a British Brexit, the sale of these fetishised items will then fund our family’s relocation to the newly independent free Scotland, from where I will harry the airwaves of England and Wales with liberally biased leftwing satire, the Lord Haw-Haw of sparkling-wine socialism.APRIL 7TH Newcastle Anarchy Brewery, 8th Edinburgh Bannermans, 28th Swansea Bunkhouse, 29th Corby Clubhouse, The official explanations had been so weak and complacent that the committee instantly wrote to the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, calling for urgent action. They requested immediate investigations into pyridine in the Tees, extensive sediment sampling to map it, testing of all dredged material for it, a halt on all but minimal dredging until the research was complete, and the creation of an independent expert panel to review the two competing theories as fast as possible. The research must be done in “an open and collaborative way”. Coffey agreed. An expert panel would be set up under scientific advisers. That is where the good news ends. There has been no openness. University scientists have sent their research to Defra and heard nothing. So infuriated were the gnomes by the quarrying of their finest granite to rebuild the farmhouse at Fernworthy that they stole the firstborn child of the farmer who had committed the sin. On Dartmoor, “don’t upset the gnomes” seems to come pretty high on the list of folk rules. Musson, Alex (27 November 2015). "Stewart Lee interview in Mustard comedy mag". Mustardweb.org . Retrieved 14 November 2017. Laws, Roz (29 March 2009). "Stewart Lee is a condescending snob". Sunday Mercury . Retrieved 5 May 2010.

Dartmoor is a weird place; temporal dislocation comes with the territory. Wayfinding is not easy among this gorse, these rambling tors and secluded brooks. And when an autumn mist descends, you can be transported: a bronze age farmer to your left, a medieval tin miner to your right, and up ahead the lord of the manor has antiquarian ambitions. He’s just repositioned those stones. The earth gnomes don’t approve. With Herring, Lee wrote material for BBC Radio 4's On the Hour (1991), which was anchored by Chris Morris and was notable for the first appearance of Steve Coogan's celebrated character, Alan Partridge, for which Lee and Herring wrote early material. Owing to creative differences with the rest of the cast, Lee and Herring did not remain with the group when On The Hour moved to television as The Day Today. Maxwell, Dominic. "From Hannah Gadsby to Sacha Baron Cohen: the 30 best living comedians". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 9 May 2021. (subscription required)The Gardener’s Rest, Sheffield on Thursday February 23rd https://www.facebook.com/GardenersRestSheffield/ During late 2000 and early 2001, Lee retired from stand-up comedy. [13] 2001 became the first year since 1987 that he did not perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [14] While Lee found himself gradually performing less stand-up and moving away from the stage, he continued his directorial duties on television. Two pilots were made for Channel 4, Cluub Zarathustra and Head Farm, but neither was developed into a series. The former featured all the ingredients that would later appear in Attention Scum, a BBC Two series fronted by Simon Munnery's "League Against Tedium" character, which also featured Kevin Eldon, Johnny Vegas and Roger Mann, as well as Richard Thomas and opera singer Lore Lixenberg. And since January I have been wearing four or five new pairs of pants a day, all of which will eventually take pride of place, when suitably soiled, in vending machines on the streets of Tokyo’s most fashionable districts. It is appropriate to describe Johnson with pure witless swearing, for that is all he deserves. He is of a political class where any insult, no matter how vicious, is acceptable, if it is delivered with the rhetorical flourishes and classical allusions of the public-school debating society. Hence, Cameron can scornfully sneer at Jeremy Corbyn and describe Dennis Skinner as a dinosaur, yet the venerable beast himself is dismissed from the house when he calls Cameron merely “dodgy”. Now comedy historian Robert Wringham has compiled an extended pictorial interview with Irvine, entitled Melt It! The Book of the Iceman, which is published today by indie label Go Faster Stripe.