Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf

From Mon 12 May 2025 View Venues, Dates & Times

At 56 years of age, Shropshire-born Stewart Lee is well aware that he’s not the man he used to be - although he’s maybe being a bit too hard on himself.
“In a way, my physical collapse has been a huge advantage,” says Stewart, perhaps with his tongue in his cheek. “It’s given the ‘stage me’ some tragedy, some gravity. Also, I’m going deaf and now wear hearing aids, which has been an interesting challenge on stage. My knees are shattered and don’t work - I think I ruined them during the 200 dates I did of a show where I pretended to be Jeremy Clarkson kicking a tramp to death - and that’s had an interesting effect on my physicality. If I jump off stage now or climb things, there’s a genuine element of pain and danger. I’m like Eddie The Eagle or something.” 
Stewart returns to the Midlands this month with a brand-new show in which he’ll be sharing the stage with ‘a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of the subconscious who hates humanity’...

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