{"id":14861,"date":"2017-08-15T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=14861"},"modified":"2017-08-15T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:45:12","slug":"stewart-lee-content-provider-coming-to-a-theatre-near-you-this-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/08\/stewart-lee-content-provider-coming-to-a-theatre-near-you-this-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Lee, Content Provider, coming to a theatre near you this September!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shows-content\">\n<h1>David Johnson &amp; John Mackay in association with Debi Allen present STEWART LEE CONTENT PROVIDER this September at the Millennium Forum Derry\/Londonderry and the Waterfront Belfast.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14862\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/press2-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/>After four years writing and performing his TV show Stewart Lee\u2019s Comedy Vehicle, Content Provider is Stewart\u2019s first brand new full-length show since the award-winning Carpet Remnant World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most consistently funny show of his brilliant career \u2026 I laughed till it hurt.\u201d 5 Stars The Times<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharacteristically twisty and frequently brilliant\u201d 4 Stars The Guardian<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVenomously funny\u201d 4 Stars Standard<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delusional ravings of a man who has lost his way in the world\u201d 5 Stars Mail on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To book tickets for the Millennium Forum click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millenniumforum.co.uk\/shows\/stewart-lee\/\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To book tickets for the Belfast Waterfront click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterfront.co.uk\/what-s-on\/all-events\/stewart-lee-content-provider\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To enter our ticket give away click our competition tab.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"embed-container\">Bio<\/h1>\n<p>Born in Shropshire in 1968, Stewart Lee began writing and performing stand-up at the age of 20, having been inspired, as an impressionable teenager, by seeing the post-punk anti-comic Ted Chippington open for The Fall in Birmingham in 1984. In 1990 he won the Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year award and for the next five years he contributed to various BBC Radio comedy shows, including <em>Fist of Fun <\/em>and <em>On The Hour<\/em>, with Steve Coogan and Chris Morris. He performed as a stand-up almost nightly on the London comedy club circuit throughout the \u201890s, and co-created two programs for BBC2 with Richard Herring.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart directed the Mighty Boosh&#8217;s breakthrough Edinburgh show, <em>Arctic Boosh (<\/em>1999), Simon Munnery&#8217;s Golden Rose Of Montreux nominated BBC2 show, <em>Attention Scum<\/em>, (2000), and a revival of Eric Bogosian&#8217;s <em>Talk Radio<\/em>\u00a0(Underbelly 2007). \u00a0In 2001 he was invited to\u00a0help write the libretto of, and direct, the composer Richard Thomas&#8217; developing work, <em>Jerry Springer The Opera, <\/em>at Battersea Arts Centre. The show won four Olivier awards after its National Theatre run, though its commercial future was curtailed by the right wing pressure group, Christian Voice.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart&#8217;s subsequent three stand-up tours, 2004&#8217;s <em>Stand-Up Comedian<\/em>, 2005\u2019s <em>90s Comedian,<\/em>\u00a0and 2007&#8217;s <em>41<sup>st<\/sup> Best Stand-Up Ever, <\/em>consolidated his live audience and critical standing and contributed to BBC2&#8217;s decision to commission his 2009 series, <em>Stewart Lee&#8217;s Comedy Vehicle<\/em>. This was followed by the stand-up tours, <em>If You Prefer A Milder Comedian Please Ask For One (2009), <\/em>and <em>Carpet Remnant World (2011), <\/em>and three more series of<em> Comedy Vehicle <\/em>for BBC2, the fourth airing in 2016. The second series won a BAFTA and two British Comedy Awards, though the same panels overlooked the superior third series, and all the series won Chortle awards.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart is also the author of the stand-up studies <em>How I Escaped My Certain Fate <\/em>(Faber and Faber 2010) and <em>If You Prefer A Milder Comedian Please Ask For One (<\/em>Faber and Faber 2012)<em>,<\/em>\u00a0and the theatre pieces <em>Pea Green Boat <\/em>(Traverse\/BAC 2002)<em>, What Would Judas Do?\u00a0<\/em>(Bush\/BAC 2007), <em>Johnson and Boswell, Late But Live <\/em>(Traverse 2007), and <em>Interiors <\/em>(Manchester International Festival 2007, with Johnny Vegas and Rob Thirtle). He has hosted radio documentaries on Native American Clowns, Satanic music, free jazz, psychedelic pagan kids\u2019 TV, Radiophonics, and Morris Dancing, and was the on-screen interviewer in Antoine Prum\u2019s elegant improvised music documentary, <em>Taking The Dog For A Walk (2014)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart is a patron of the arts radio station <em>Resonance 104.4 FM, <\/em>has written on music for The Wire, Bucketful Of Brains, Uncut and Mojo, and performs in an irregular trio interpreting John Cage\u2019s <em>Indeterminacy<\/em> with Steve Beresford and Tania Chen. He won <em>Celebrity Mastermind<\/em> answering questions on the guitarist Derek Bailey, pedalled a swan pedalo in Andrew K\u00f6tting and Iain Sinclair\u2019s film <em>Swandown <\/em>(2012), and recently performed a folk song on a Shirley Collins tribute album. He is also the voice of a Tarantula spider in an exhibit at London Zoo. Stewart has two children and has lived in Stoke Newington, Hackney, London since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne of the top three or four living stand-ups..\u201d \u2013 <strong>Time Out<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cThe worst stand-up I have ever seen\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 <strong>Graham Simmons, Chortle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewartlee.co.uk\/\"><strong>www.stewartlee.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Johnson &amp; John Mackay in association with Debi Allen present STEWART LEE CONTENT PROVIDER this September at the Millennium Forum Derry\/Londonderry and the Waterfront Belfast. After four years writing and performing his TV show Stewart Lee\u2019s Comedy Vehicle, Content Provider is Stewart\u2019s first brand new full-length show since the award-winning Carpet Remnant World. \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/08\/stewart-lee-content-provider-coming-to-a-theatre-near-you-this-september\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14865,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861\/revisions\/14865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}