Fresh from his acclaimed return to television after more than a decade, comedian Stewart Lee is doing what he loves best – live stand-up.
He’s been performing live since he was 20, co-created the BBC series Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy alongside former comedy partner Richard Herring as well as writing and directing acts such as the Mighty Boosh and Jerry Springer: The Opera.
More recently he has won praise for the hit BBC2 show Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
Now he is bringing his latest live show – If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One – to Ipswich’s New Wolsey tonight (3rd Feb) and moves on to Chelmsford’s Civic Theatre, tomorrow.
He is pleased with how it has gradually come together since he wrote it in a tiny room at Edinburgh’s Stand comedy club.
“The show is three long half-hour routines that eventually coalesce into a despairing view of the world,” he laughs, despite being 150 dates in.
“It has sort of gone through a kind of wall where I’ve found all sorts of way by necessity, I think, to improvise and change things and keep it alive. Also there are two or three bits that are very difficult to do and I never quite know if they’re going to work, so it is exciting every night. I think I’ve probably started to write those kinds of shows precisely because you need that element of danger to keep it spontaneous.”
That includes throwing a song in the mix for the first time.
Tonight’s show starts at 7.45pm. Tickets, priced £8.50 to £19.50 are available by calling the box office on 01473 295900.
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