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Stewart Lee at Leicester Square Theatre review: laughs layered within laughs

We all like to get value for money from a show and Stewart Lee has come up with a brilliant buy-one-get two-free concept. Stewart Lee Vs The Man-Wulf is classic liberal Lee stand-up, then a send-up of no-holds-barred shock humour and finally an attempt to merge the two, playing a woke comic with a macho streak. Oh, and in one of these sections he dresses as a werewolf.

It is all delivered in Lee's trademark knowing style. Even in the first third of the tryptich, where he is playing himself, it is a version of himself, a caricature of an imagined metropolitan elite entertainer irritated by the ignorance of his audience, annoyed when a so-called fan cannot name a favourite ancient burial site.

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