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Dining across the divide: ‘She’s not unwelcoming or racist but she thinks immigration is creating a brain drain elsewhere’

They had different opinions on social media, asylum seekers and ‘woke’ politics, but which Stewart Lee sketch got them both laughing?

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Help! I'm the only Right-wing stand-up in comedy

Comedian Andrew Watts finally came out this year — and now he’s a social pariah on the comedy scene

Evening Standard

‘Did he really play on Petula Clark’s Downtown?’ Stewart Lee on his guitar hero Derek Bailey

He was a genius of improvised music, a performer who abandoned composition – and wondered why anyone would buy his records. Comedian Stewart Lee celebrates the eccentric life of his great inspiration

The Guardian - UK

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

4/5 The veteran comedian delivers gags aplenty with his trademark knowing style

Evening Standard

I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter

Is it worth me writing jokes about Trump’s US? It looks like they are targeting even their mildest visa-carrying critics

The Guardian - UK

"I'm not as humourless as my music!" Steven Wilson announces comedians as support acts for upcoming London Palladium shows

Stewart Lee, Al Murray, Clinton Baptiste and Frank Skinner will all support Steven Wilson on different nights

Louder

Trump chose the wrong hill to DEI on

Deleting stories of Iwo Jima and other diverse US military heroism backfired. For subtle discussion of diversity, equity and inclusion, talk to Lorraine Kelly

The Guardian - UK

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If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up

Social media is lurching to the right like a tapeworm scenting offal – and X’s algorithms make it hard to find opposing opinion

The Guardian - UK

Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope

The gadfly-minded abuser has openly threatened Greenland, Ukraine and Europe. He, and America, are the enemy now

The Guardian - UK

Trump has turbocharged the news cycle and I’m struggling to keep up

Maintaining pace with the US president’s wild outbursts and the mind-boggling media reports about him is no laughing matter

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees

For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokerati

The Guardian - UK

A tale of two suckers: Donald Trump’s plastic straws and Keir Starmer

The US president has scrapped paper straws because they allegedly ‘explode’ – a bit like the PM’s reputation if he keeps refusing to confront him on the big issues

The Guardian - UK

Air traffic control to Sir Keir: turbulence ahead

There’s no point trying to make plans around the whims of Trump. The PM instead needs to turn to Europe

The Guardian - UK

Stewart Lee Vs the Man-Wulf review - fur flies as the beast is unleashed

Morphing from shock-jock lupine to hand-wringing liberal, Lee lambasts the comedy of cruelty in scathing, slapstick style

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The Donald and Elon Show is an unholy mess

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do

The Guardian - UK

Alternatives to prison are vital for convicts and their families

Abolishing custodial sentences of less than two years would protect some of the country’s most vulnerable children

The Guardian - UK

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off

As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out

The Guardian - UK

If 2025 is anything like 2024, I’ll be back on the Baileys

With environmental protesters in UK jails while convicted rioters sing the US national anthem for Mar-a-Largo guests, I’m bracing myself for another 12 months of despair

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The Guardian - UK

Farage, Musk and Candy say ‘cheese’ – now British democracy’s toast

Last week’s photo op with the Reform leader and X owner was further evidence of the UK’s inevitable march towards the far right. Merry Christmas!

The Guardian - UK

Flat-cap Clarkson only wants his nose in the trough

The broadcaster thinks if he fires up his farming fanbase they can shield him from his obligation to contribute his fair share to society

The Guardian - UK

If I were Captain America, I’d quit

Progressive postwar culture in the US – rock’n’roll, cinema and comic-book characters – no longer makes sense in a Trumpian world

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Lucan Obsession; Halloween: Trilogy of Terror; Extrasensory – review

Fifty years on, the missing aristo and his wife continue to fascinate; Danny Robins and Stewart Lee get into the Halloween spirit; and an eerie English tale with Will Sharpe

The Guardian - UK

Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure

Robert Smith, defiant leader of the post-punk stalwarts, has shown that secondary markets can be bypassed, enabling ordinary people to benefit from culture

Louder

October's An Evening With Jakko Jakszyk to be hosted by comedian Stewart Lee

An Evening With Jakko Jakszyk takes place at West Hampstead Arts Club on October 11

The Independent UK

Omid Djalili: ‘You can’t wash blood away with more blood’

As the actor and comedian returns for a fiery new stand-up tour, he tells Helen Coffey about the best moment of his life (involving Brad Pitt and Robert Redford), how he learnt to channel rage into humour, and why he’s now entering his fabulous second act

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