Stewart Lee and the need to update your act

The challenges of keeping comedy fresh

Sue Perkins has let herself go. Basic Lee, touring 2023. Tickets

I recently saw the comedian Stewart Lee, and it was odd.

Here was a comic playing a sold-out central London room, to hundreds of punters prepared to play a good price¹ for what was effectively a workshop gig, in addition to material which they had seen before, and the comic seemed all the tim…