STEWART LEE
Basic Lee:
Live at the Lowry
BRAND NEW STAND-UP SPECIAL
Airs SATURDAY 20TH JULY (9pm)
on Sky Comedy and streaming service NOW
Stewart Lee performs his latest tour show Basic Lee filmed at The Lowry in Salford.
Superficially an uncharacteristically simple Stewart Lee show, in which the gnomic fifty-six-year-old veteran attempts to define by example what stand-up comedy is, Basic Lee slowly reveals a subtext about staying sane by re-structuring reality. But Lee’s most personal show is also his funniest, as he rewards the post-pandemic audience with a barrel load of big laughs as well as a bucketful of post-modern comedy deconstruction.
Probably the finest live recording to date of “the world’s greatest living stand-up comedian” (The Times, 2018) or “the world’s second best living stand-up comedian after Bo Burnham” (Daily Telegraph, 2023).
Stewart Lee, Basic Lee: Live at the Lowry is produced by Drum Studios in association with Awkward Films. The Producer Director is Colin Dench. The Executive Producers are Danny Carvalho and Andy Holland. The Commissioning Editor for Sky is Dwayne Eaton.
Stewart Lee, Basic Lee: Live at the Lowry airs 19th July at 9pm on Sky Comedy and streaming service NOW
Stewart Lee’s new touring show STEWART LEE vs THE MAN WULF opens at the Leicester Square Theatre in London in December 2025 and will tour throughout 2025. See www.stewartlee.co.uk for full schedule.
About Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee began stand-up in 1988 at the age of 20 and won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 1990. In 2001 he co-wrote the libretto for Richard Thomas’s Jerry Springer, The Opera, which went on to win four Olivier Awards. His most recent live shows have been Carpet Remnant World (2011), Much A Stew About Nothing (2013), Room with a Stew (2015), Content Provider (2016), Snowflake/Tornado (2019) and Basic Lee (2022). He made four series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle for the BBC which won Best Male TV Comic and Best Comedy Entertainment Performance at the British Comedy Awards in 2011 and a BAFTA in 2012. In 2014 he began performing Indeterminacy by John Cage with Tania Chen and Steve Beresford and in 2019, made King Rocker (with Michael Cummings) a rockumentary about The Nightingales. Stewart is also an occasional newspaper columnist, has published several books with Faber and continues to write for a variety of specialist music journals.
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