Stewart Lee

Comedian

Stewart Lee was born in Wellington, England, United Kingdom on April 5th, 1968 and is the Comedian. At the age of 55, Stewart Lee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
April 5, 1968
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Wellington, England, United Kingdom
Age
55 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aries
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Actor, Comedian, Director, Film Director, Musician, Screenwriter, Stand-up Comedian, Television Actor, Writer
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Solihull School, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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Bridget Christie ​(m. 2006)​
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Stewart Lee Life

Stewart Graham Lee (born 5 April 1968) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director.

In the mid-1990s he was one half of the radio duo Lee and Herring, alongside Richard Herring.

His stand-up is characterised by repetition, frequent callbacks, generally deadpan delivery and a pronounced use of deconstruction, which he often self-consciously refers to on stage.After a return to the live circuit, and through BBC and Channel 4 specials and series, Lee has rebuilt an audience and a reputation as an anti-populist comedian.

In December 2011 he won British Comedy Awards for best male television comic and best comedy entertainment programme for his series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

A 2009 article in The Times referred to him as "the comedian's comedian, and for good reason" and named him "face of the decade".

In June 2012 Lee was placed at number 9 in the Top 100 Most Influential People in UK Comedy.He co-wrote and co-directed the West End hit musical Jerry Springer: The Opera, a critical success that sparked a backlash from Christian groups who staged a series of protests outside its early stagings.

Lee has written music reviews for publications including The Sunday Times.

Early life

Stewart Graham Lee was born on 5 April 1968 in Wellington, Shropshire. He was adopted as a child and grew up in Solihull, West Midlands. His adoptive parents separated when he was four, and he was raised by his mother. He attended the Solihull School on a part scholarship, and received what he calls a "waifs and strays bursary" because he was adopted. He participated in the school's mountain-walking club, which went on regular excursions to Snowdonia; the original members of the grindcore band Napalm Death also took part. As a teenager, Lee suffered from ulcerative colitis, which he has said caused significant weight loss and made him look "cadaverously thin". He has described how, at the age of 16, he was "doing a lot of reading, going to gigs, buying records, and listening to the John Peel show". He later read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a 2:1.

Personal life

Lee married comedian Bridget Christie in 2006. They live in Stoke Newington, and have two children. He is a patron of Humanists UK, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, and a member of Arts Emergency.

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Stewart Lee Career

Career

While attending Oxford in the 1980s, he wrote and performed comedy in The Seven Raymonds, a revue group based on Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, and Tim Richardson, but he did not appear in the well-known Oxford Revue, although he did write for and direct the 1989 revue. Since relocating to London and began presenting stand-up comedy at university, he came to prominence in 1990, winning the coveted Hackney Empire New Act of the Year award.

Lee wrote for BBC Radio 4's On the Hour (1991), which was anchored by Chris Morris and was notable for Steve Coogan's first appearance as a character, Alan Partridge, for which Lee and Herring wrote early. As On The Hour turned to television as The Day Today, Lee and Herring did not remain with the company due to creative differences with the rest of the cast.

He and Herring wrote and performed Inexplicable World for BBC Radio 4, then moved to BBC Radio 1, for one series of Fist of Fun (1993), followed by three series of Lee and Herring. He continued performing solo stand-up (even though he wasn't in the double act Lee and Herring) and collaborated with, among other things, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh throughout the late nineties. Despite the fact that Barratt and Fielding had collaborated together in the past, the first seeds of the Boosh were sown when working as part of Lee's Edinburgh show King Dong and Moby Dick, in which Barratt and Fielding performed a giant penis and a whale respectively. By going back to direct their 1999 Edinburgh show, Arctic Boosh, which remains the template for their live performance, Lee returned the favor.

Lee wrote The Perfect Fool, his first book, in 2001. He appeared on Pea Green Boat, a stand-up show that revolved around the deconstruction of Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and a tale of his own broken toilet in the same year. Later this week, this will be condensed to concentrate mainly on the poem itself, and a 15-minute version of the poem appeared on Radio 4. Go Faster Stripe, a Go Faster Stripe singer, released a 25-minute edit on CD and 10" Vinyl in 2007.

Lee resigned from stand-up comedy in late 2000 and early 2001. 2001 was the first year since 1987 that he did not appear at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Though Lee was gradually lacking stand-up and stepping away from the stage, he maintained his directorial duties on television. Two pilots were created for Channel 4, Cluub Zarathustra and Head Farm, but neither was developed into a series. The former was shown in Attention Scum, a BBC Two series fronted by Simon Munnery's "League Against Tedium" film, as well as Richard Thomas and opera singer Lore Lixenberg.

Who's Ready for Ice Cream? Lee produced Johnny Vegas's first DVD at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2003. He appeared on Stand Up Comedian in 2004 and brought back stand-up comedy.

Lee is a regular music critic for The Guardian. He said in 2003 that his favorite bands include The Fall, Giant Sand, and Calexico, and that he listens to "a lot of jazz, 60s, and folk music, but I really love Ms. Dynamite and The Streets."

Jerry Springer: The Opera, a satirical musical/opera written by Lee and Richard Thomas and based on the Jerry Springer Show, was broadcast on BBC Two in January 2005 as a preview to the show's UK Tour. A number of protest groups protested the show's blasphemous and insensitive, according to Christian Voice. They were particularly outraged by Jesus' portrayal. A dispute erupted, with protesters arguing that the bulk of the protesters had neither seen the show nor knew of its truth. Some endorse the right of expression. Several Christian groups protested at some of the venues on the UK Tour. Prior to its airing, the show had a record number of complaints. The BBC received 55,000 calls in total. A magistrate's appeal brought by Christian Voice against Lee and those concerned with the production of blasphemy was dismissed by a magistrates' court.

He appeared as a host on three comedy panel shows in 2006, but he was "fully broke" to find himself "really broke." Never Mind The Buzzcocks was the first show on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, where Simon Amstell made frequent remark regarding Jerry Springer's controversy: The Opera. This was followed by appearances on Have I Got News For You and 8 Out of 10 Cats before Lee decided to ban them entirely. Lee did not want to alienate his followers in exchange for quick cash, according to a Financial Times article in 2011, because being a stand-up had been the only thing that had consistently earned him money for him.

Comedy Vehicle, a new six-part comedy film starring standup and sketches, began on March 16, 2009. Armando Iannucci was the executive producer, and Chris Morris was the script editor. The Independent gave the first episode rave reviews. The Daily Mirror and The Washington Post are both online. Lee himself wrote a negative review of the show in Time Out, describing himself as "fat" and his result as "positively Neanderthal," implying a jungle-dwelling pygmy and unable to coax notes from a clarinet that has fallen from a passing plane. "The kind of television that makes you feel like you're not the only one wondering how we came to be surrounded by so much unquestioned mediocrity," the Guardian said. "His whole tone is one of smug condescension," one of the show's few negative reviews read in the Sunday Mercury. Lee announced his impending stand-up tour on the line. Lee routinely uses negative reviews on his posters in an attempt to discourage potential audience members who are unlikely to be enthusiastic of his comedy style.

Around one million viewers watched the first episode. During its time, the series was the BBC's second most downloaded show. In May 2010, the series was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for the best comedy program. In 2012, the series received a BAFTA Television Award for the best comedy program. After four seasons on BBC Two, the show was cancelled.

Although Lee had been backed by less well-known comedians on his comedy tours before (including Josie Long and Tony Law), 2011 marked a turning point in his career in his career toward promoting other creative comedy artists.

He curated At Last!

Alexei Sayle and Norman Lovett performed at the Royal Festival Hall in May 2011 and, by 2013, he was hosting The Alternative Comedy Experience, which featured 38 comedians who identified with alternative comedy, including Robin Ince, Sam Simmons, and Eleanor Tiernan. The show lasted for 25 episodes from 2013 to 2015, but Lee confirmed in 2015 that Comedy Central would not order a third series.

Asian Dub Foundation, a London political band that had a top-40 hit with "Buzzin'" in 1998, released "Comin' Over Here," based on a drawing from Lee's Comedy Vehicle, which was based on a sketch from Lee's Comedy Vehicle regarding then UKIP Party leader Paul Nuttall. Lee partnered with the Asian Dub Foundation in December 2020 to release a video for the song, which was part of an internet promotion (in the style of LadBaby, Rage Against The Machine, et al.) To make the chart to number one in time for the official chart compiled by the Official Charts Company on December 31, 2020, a 'Brexit Day Number One' is the highest level on record. The song debuted at number 65 on the first day of the week, making it the week's biggest new entry and the week's top-selling single (though "Comin' Over Here" was not included in the Official Audio Streaming Chart Top 100).

Lee produced King Rocker, a documentary film about singer Robert Lloyd and the band The Nightingales in 2020. Frank Skinner, Marc Riley, Robin Askwith, Duran Duran's John Taylor, and Samira Ahmed appeared in the film.

Lee took his material from Spotify in 2022 because it refused to prevent The Joe Rogan Experience from spreading COVID-19 misinformation on its website.

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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Who will inherit £65million? As a relucent viscount dies without making a 'valid will,' the Aristocratic riddle suffers

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 27, 2024
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: He lived frugally, favouring second-hand cars, flying economy, and retaining his house in a condition unsurpassed since the 1950s. Shane Hugh Maryon Gough, the 5th and last Viscount Gough, did not perform so because he had been reduced to penury. Far from it: When he died last April at the age of 81, the peer, a lifelong bachelor, left an incredible fortune of more than £65 million. However, following the announcement this week of what is described as a 'Grant of Letters of Administration', quite who - if anyone - will inherit this delectable sum is open to debate.

PATRICK MARMION: Bard lovers beware, the guardians of Shakespeare have murdered Macbeth

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 1, 2023
Audiences may be forgiven for turning their backs on Shakespeare. In some of our most prestigious companies, directors seem to be doing the same. And yet, we theatregoers keep booking in the hopes of determining what makes the Bard such a dramatic giant, only to face yet another rookie director's dispensing information. It's only a partial tragedy to Wils Wilson's Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, to be fair. Shakespeare's story, which was deemed past its use-by-date in the series, has been re-written by English stand-up comedian Stewart Lee in a nearly entirely Scottish setting.

After a 17-year marriage, comedy's 'golden couple,' Stewart Lee and Bridget Christie, announce their separation

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 5, 2023
Stewart Lee, 55, and his wife Bridget Christie, 51, have divorced after 17 years, despite allegations that he has come close to younger comedian Rosie Holt (inset). Lee maintains that they have remained helpful for their two children, who are aged 16 and 12. The pair met at a party at the Leicester Comedy Festival in 2004 and then stayed in Stoke Newington, North London, where they met again during their split.