Across the Stew-niverse: A podcast about Stewart Lee
Episode Three: 41st Best Stand-up Ever! (2008)
03 Feb 2024
In this episode, Dan and Joe battle adverse weather and terrible internet connections to bring you this mammoth episode, looking at Stew's 2008 effort '41st Best Stand-Up...Ever'.This special finds 'The Comedian Stewart Lee' in an odd state of limbo, as he is lauded as the 41st best stand-up ever by one of those rubbish late night countdown shows on Channel 4, whilst simultaneously struggling to get anyone from television to give him a commission (as well as being ridiculed by his own Mum for not being as funny as "Scouse Groundhog" Tom O'Connor off of Crosswits)Also in the episode, Dan and Joe discuss their own stand-up related struggles and what misogyny was like in the early 2000s, amongst a bunch of other things.COME AND SEE STEWNIVERSE LIVE IN LEICESTER WITH SPECIAL GUEST AND STAR OF THE ALTERNATIVE COMEDY EXPERIENCE MICHAEL LEGGE!COME AND SEE DAN LIVE IN LEICESTERCOME AND SEE JOE LIVE IN LEICESTER
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