I just received my copy of Stewart Lee’s new DVD, “Stand Up Comedian” this morning; It’s a retrospective of some of Stu’s best stand-up material developed over the past two years. This is the same Stewart Lee who gave us the Jerry Springer Opera, and possibly Britain’s best currently performing stand-up comedians.
This DVD shows Lee at the peak of his skills; a measured performer who is in control of the audience. As one might expect, his set includes bizarre twists of logic; clever analysis of recent affairs and precisely targeted irony against an ever growing group of targets, which has expanded recently to include every Perrier award winning comedian, and anybody vaguely religious.
Fair game if you ask me.
I know it’s a cliche to compare Stewart Lee to Bill Hicks; but there is truth in this comparison. Like Bill Hicks, Lee is a visionary who has transcended the world of mundane observation. Lee lacks the spiritualism of Bill Hicks, but like the best performers can conjure absurdity from the most barren of topics.
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