Stewart Lee
(Picture: Steve Ullathorne)Is this the most Stewart Lee show Stewart Lee has ever performed? While it might be called Basic Lee and is purportedly a streamlined one-man-and-his-mic set, it is also so textured it has more levels than a multi-storey car park.
Lee’s aim here is to send up the art of stand-up, from revealing how to devise comic ideas to explaining how they should be delivered. There are inspired digressions, of course, and moments of brilliance alongside more obvious tropes that should be beneath a stand-up of Lee’s stature.
