Good news. A new series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle starts on BBC2 at 10pm on Thursday 3 March.
Stewart Lee is interviewed on the Guardian website today (and in tomorrow's paper?) by Will Self:
On stage, Lee is apparently an embittered, envious, self-lacerating man, caught in a ferocious double-bind: if he’s unsuccessful it’s because his audience are stupid shits who don’t get his jokes; and if he’s successful it’s because he’s a stupid shit churning out jokes that confirm his audience in their prejudices. So convincing is this act – if indeed it is an act – that I became intrigued: was the “real” Lee quite as prickly as his performance persona? In order to find out I asked him over for a serious sit-down.It's good stuff, but I wish someone would tell Self to stop saying "self-reflexive".
Do you think in this interview this Self is, himSelf, or that self previously played in interviews with Lee by Armando Iannucci and by Chris Morris viz https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=sOCyADJaK_E ?
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Or is Self playing the 'Self' or even the self that Self thinks Lee wants or needs him to play for Lee to be Lee or stage-Lee with or without 'make-up'?
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