Stewart Lee promotional image: The man himself in the centre, the left side coloured blue, with British flag patterned snowflakes, the right in orange and yellow tones, behind him a tornado swirl with a shark jumping out of the centre

John Mackay in association with Debi Allen / Curtis Brown present

Stewart Lee: Snowflake/Tornado

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A double-bill of two new 60 minute sets, back to back nightly from “the world’s greatest living stand-up” (The Times). Including new material for 2022.

The first half, Snowflake, will be heavily rewritten in the light of the two years the show has been laid off, looking at how the Covid-Brexit era has impacted on the culture war between lovely snowflakes and horrible people.

The second half, Tornado, questions Stew’s position in the comedy marketplace after Netflix mistakenly listed his show as “reports of sharks falling from the skies are on the rise again. Nobody on the Eastern Seaboard is safe.”


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★★★★★

There’s no-one else to touch him

Mail On Sunday

★★★★★

Lee remains one of the best stand-ups in the country

Metro

He makes stand-up almost a moral pursuit, … that makes the usual (and more popular) stand-ups seem crude and obvious.

Alan Bennet, London Review Of Books.

The world’s best living stand-up comedian

The Times

If I could bring one extinct thing back to life it would be Stewart Lee’s sense of humour

Frankie Boyle, BBC2

A pot-bellied Bernard Manning for snowflakes

Tony Parsons, The Sun

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DAVID JOHNSON & JOHN MACKAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH DEBI ALLEN / CURTIS BROWN

Stewart Lee: Snowflake/Tornado

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  • Reviews

We’re working on rescheduling this event. Please bear with us.

A double-bill of two new 60 minute sets, back to back nightly from “the world’s greatest living stand-up” (The Times).

Tornado questions Stew’s position in the comedy marketplace after Netflix mistakenly lists his show as “reports of sharks falling from the skies are on the rise again. Nobody on the Eastern Seaboard is safe.”

Snowflake questions Stew’s worth in a society demolishing the liberal values he has been keen to espouse in a fairy-tale landscape of winter wonder.

★★★★★

‘Lee remains one of the best stand-ups in the country’

METRO

“The world’s best living stand-up comedian”

THE TIMES

“Proper, vicious prejudice – a self-proclaimed inhabitant of the moral high ground”

THE DAILY MAIL

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