If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask for One
NEW WOLSEY THEATRE, Wednesday 3 February at 7.45pm
Tickets: £8.50 to £19.50
"The most exciting comedian in the country, bar none" Times
“The funniest, most cliché-free comedian on the circuit” Ricky Gervais
Following his much acclaimed television series STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE, Stewart Lee returns to the live circuit and comes to The New Wolsey Theatre on Wednesday 3 February at 7.45pm with a brand new show. His last award-winning live show '41st BEST STAND-UP EVER' relentlessly exploited his position in a Channel 4 poll of comedians and had some jokes about sardines and entomologists. Stewart gives us some tantalising hints of what we might expect in IF YOU PREFER A MILDER COMEDIAN, PLEASE ASK FOR ONE:
“In this show, an account of something that happened to me in a coffee shop will be used as a convenient framing device for disparate material possibly concerning English Heritage, Top Gear, The Olympics, emigration, prawns, Bella Pasta, The National Trust, farmers, DH Lawrence, piglets, cathedrals, bees, Iggy Pop, cider adverts, riots, etc, etc.’
As usual, expect …
1) Some punchy stuff near the top
2) Inexplicable hostility towards relatively innocuous figures
3) Silences
4) Repetition
5) Sudden and/or gradual shifts in tone, velocity and volume
6) Long routines experimenting with form rather than content
7) The possibility of failure
8) A quasi-serious bit at the end.
9) And - new for 2009 - a song!
Stewart Lee is a stand-up, writer and director. His television work includes Fist of Fun, This Morning With Richard not Judy, Attention Scum and Time Trumpet and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle all for BBC2, and script editing The Harry Hill Show (C4). Theatre credits include What Would Judas Do? (BAC/The Bush) Boswell and Johnson Late But Live and Pea Green Boat (both for The Traverse), Interiors with Johnny Vegas for the 2007 Manchester International Festival, and co-writing and directing Richard Thomas’ award-winning Jerry Springer The Opera for the National Theatre. He has performed as a stand-up comedian all over the world and released four DVDs. His first novel, The Perfect Fool, was published in July 2001 and he writes regularly on music for The Sunday Times.
www.stewartlee.co.uk
Tickets (£8.50 to £19.50) can be booked by calling the New Wolsey Box Office on 01473 295900 or online at www.wolseytheatre.co.uk