Stewart Lee at the Royal Festival Hall last night was absolutely magnificent. ‘Comedy’ doesn’t really cover it. It was extraordinarily good. The tour continues…
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The man has two brains. He plans almost every pause, comma, audible semicolon and sideways glance.
jul 13, 2025, 11:05 am • 4 0 • view
Saw him at the Playhouse in Leeds back in May. Absolutely knocked it out of the park, as he always does, delivered in his inimitable comedian-constantly-disappointed-in-his-own-audience style. Will be seeing him again at the beginning of November when the tour circles back through Harrogate.
jul 13, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 0 • view
Stewart Lee is a genius, his stories are exceptional in their construction, he's fascinating to watch and always the best laughs. In a class of his own.
jul 13, 2025, 12:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Saw him there last week and yes, fantastic.
jul 13, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
He was involved in the building of canyon rope bridges in the 80’s, masterful work.
jul 14, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
Going tonight, can't wait.
jul 13, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
Stewart Lee is a genius with his social commentary 👏
jul 13, 2025, 11:16 am • 2 0 • view
"How about that for unprecedented penetration of the rust belt."
jul 14, 2025, 11:33 am • 0 0 • view
I sometimes amuse myself by imagining what moments in the show Stew chuckles to as he listens along while driving to his next tour date in his tiny renault twizy.
jul 17, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Stewart Lee seriously makes me laugh out loud, and not many can do that. Notwithstanding, Donald Trump, Darren Grimes and Nick Abbot. The two former, I laugh at, the latter, with.
jul 13, 2025, 11:24 am • 1 0 • view
He’s not on Blue sky. Wish he was. We love him here in Norwich.
jul 13, 2025, 9:52 am • 1 0 • view
He’s not on any social media and spotted the perils of SM early on. We should have listened! His monthly email is worth subscribing to, if you don’t already.
jul 13, 2025, 10:10 am • 2 0 • view
Thanks. You’re right- he’s not a social media kind of guy!
jul 13, 2025, 10:47 am • 1 0 • view
I seriously fear for him, cavorting around in that doubtless heavy costume.
jul 13, 2025, 9:33 am • 5 0 • view
Gosh, we saw him in Feb and he looked hot it in then, I can’t even imagine this week
jul 13, 2025, 10:31 am • 4 0 • view
‘Get in the sea!’
jul 13, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
Of course you loved it, Metropolitan Liberal Elite that you are 😉
jul 13, 2025, 9:36 am • 12 0 • view
Lee is best seen dubbed into Romanian with Bulgarian subtitles.
jul 13, 2025, 10:13 am • 5 0 • view
MAGA and ICE are the new Nazis
jul 14, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
... and make me a f**king sandwich.
jul 13, 2025, 9:42 am • 0 0 • view
Seeing him in September, can't wait.
jul 14, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
He's excellent. The only thing I miss about UK is regular top tier comedy and the football... that's it.
jul 13, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Can't imagine why the Tory BBC high command doesn't commission more programmes from him..... oh yes, being funny and talking truth to power not popular now.
jul 13, 2025, 9:42 am • 10 0 • view
He would do shows like HIGNFY but its beneath him really
jul 13, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Suck my cock wipe my arse and make me a sandwich
jul 13, 2025, 10:36 am • 2 0 • view
You have to pay extra for this on RyanAir - certainly for the sandwich.
jul 13, 2025, 11:02 am • 1 0 • view
The American stand up comic routine is fabulous
jul 14, 2025, 8:14 am • 0 0 • view
Saw him once.... left depressed. Not funny.
jul 13, 2025, 9:35 am • 0 0 • view
You need your giggling pin adjusting. It’s painless.
jul 13, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
You may have been expecting joke-telling. He doesn't really do those. He's more of a "someone you ought to see" guy.
jul 13, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
He was on with a lot of folks....charity thing. Nope he was talking about his son's death. Not funny whole audience uncomfortable
jul 14, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
I hadn't heard/can't find anything about that. Same goes for my wife 🤷🏻
jul 14, 2025, 8:55 am • 0 0 • view
And they say this is an echo chamber!
jul 13, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
On my way to the matinee today with my 14-year-old son. I’ve recently got him into Radiohead too so I think I’ve got the key cultural icons of the last 30 years covered.
jul 13, 2025, 12:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I still think this joke from last year is probably the single funniest thing he's ever said
jul 13, 2025, 11:41 am • 8 0 • view
A really really really old joke I first read it by Alan Moore, it's even older than that though
jul 13, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe centuries old. Saw Lee last Spring, didn't occur to me till months later that I'd seen a version in Watchmen. For me personally, adding a line from the doctor *and* "good joke, that" puts the icing on the cake, twice. Thrice, even, if taken as a possible reference to letting himself go.
jul 13, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Quadrice, given he says it in the context of not being someone who tells jokes
jul 13, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I never really considered the original a joke, weirdly - quite depressing really!
jul 13, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
that is one big jacket
jul 13, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Going tonight, so am very glad to hear that!
jul 13, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
Many years ago now, but his 'Top Gear' piece is still some of his finest work.
jul 13, 2025, 9:36 am • 7 0 • view
I still love watching “the values of the car phone warehouse”
jul 13, 2025, 10:19 am • 0 0 • view
I’d have to give it to ‘coming over ‘ere.’
jul 13, 2025, 9:40 am • 17 0 • view
These days if you say you’re English!
jul 13, 2025, 9:59 am • 1 0 • view
Paul Nuttall from the UKIP’s was up there😂
jul 13, 2025, 9:46 am • 14 0 • view
You get sent to jail if you say you’re English taxi driver made me howl!
jul 13, 2025, 12:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Saw him Sunday afternoon at RFH brilliant! And he loves Neolithic stone circles!!!! Woo hoo ✊️
jul 13, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Think you may have made his website fall over.
jul 13, 2025, 9:35 am • 1 0 • view
Looking forward to catching him later in the year....
jul 13, 2025, 9:39 am • 0 0 • view
Going to see him in September...cannot wait!
jul 14, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
As Stewart Lee’s manager, I can assure you your cheque is in the post😉
jul 13, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
Seeing him in November. Can't wait!!
jul 13, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Seeing him in Sept. Can't wait. Although last time I genuinely feared I was going to pass out from laughing so hard.
jul 13, 2025, 10:13 am • 0 0 • view
He's always brilliant, without fail.
jul 13, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
Was it the Man-Wolf tour? Saw it at the Lowry excellent show.
jul 14, 2025, 9:18 am • 1 0 • view
This tweet just prompted me to search whether you'd done a full disclosure with Stewart Lee before.... I'm very happy to discover the answer is yes. That's my Sunday afternoon audio remedy sorted 👌
jul 13, 2025, 10:35 am • 68 5 • view
Yes and it was a good one . I've asked before on" the other place " ...I'd love to see @Jamesobrien do a Full Disclosure with Michael Sheen .
jul 13, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Oooo, thank you - great shout.
jul 14, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
I'm seeing Stewart in the Autumn, & he'll probably have to rewrite the entire show by then. It was a major theme in the Basic Lee tour - the instability constantly making his observations look like old history, & since then the fluctuations have increased. The government have let themselves go.
jul 13, 2025, 12:38 pm • 5 0 • view
The acoustics at the #RFH are great for music and horrible for the spoken word. The sound last night was shockingly bad — from our seats we got one word in three — and not one while he wore the wolf head…
jul 13, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
Bleeding hot in the bar/foyer area before the show! God knows how he didn't keel over in the costume.
jul 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
He mentioned you when I went to see him...
jul 13, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
He could write jokes, but it's beneath him.
jul 13, 2025, 11:19 am • 11 0 • view
I think that’s hilarious. Maybe you don’t know why, perhaps you do
jul 13, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
Well, Stuart Lee does that comedy, well its quite hard to explain isnt it becuase you probably wouldnt get it
jul 13, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It's more like Jazz really yeah
jul 13, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Or like a pear cider made from real pears
jul 13, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, Lee is more of a philosopher really, he transcends comedy. 😉
jul 13, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
William Shatner’s really let himself go…
jul 13, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Did you get a mention?
jul 13, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view