Saturday, August 10, 2013

STEWART LEE at THE STAND EDINBURGH

Stewart Lee begins a massive tour stretching from now until well into next January to practice and showcase new material for an upcoming TV series.

The themes he picked today were the Tories and UKIP , with half an hour on each.Seeing as he is just starting out in developing the material it seems to be already well honed and should be a smash hit when it comes out early next year.

The person i was with really appreciated the challenge for the audience to think through the topics deeply before coming to universally grounded conclusions.A genuine mixture of satire and critique delivered in a casual , yet deeply penetrating way.

In a recent Oxford lecture he attracted a lot of attention to the process of comedy in which "Stewart discusses the fantasy that stand-up comedy is spontaneous rather than written, and describes the evolution of stand-up over the last few decades. His talk takes in a wide range of subjects from the first app he ever came across to a discussion of the value of culture in society."

You can see the full lecture in the video below:





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