Stand-up show in which Stewart Lee shares the stage with his werewolf alter-ego, The Man-Wulf, in a new comedy piece.
Stewart Lee is at Devonshire Park Theatre on Sunday 1 November, 7:45pm, with a brand new show called Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf. It's a bit of a strange one: Lee shares the stage with The Man-Wulf, a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of the subconscious who hates humanity and lays a ferocious comedy challenge to Lee. It's not your usual stand-up set.
Lee frames the whole thing as a response to his own career anxieties. He's approaching sixty and talks about debilitating health conditions, arguing that his once BAFTA award-winning style has become obsolete against a wave of what he calls 'Netflix-endorsed comedy of anger'. He positions the show as an attempt to put himself in the same league as Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais and Jordan Peterson.
If you're not familiar with him, he's one of the big names in British comedy. The Times called him 'the world's greatest living stand-up comedian', and he came in at number 41 in a Channel 4 survey of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups Ever. Ricky Gervais called him 'the funniest, most cliche-free comedian on the circuit', and The Independent described him as 'the only comedian who can get away with deconstructing and critiquing his own routines as he goes along and not be repellent'.
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It's a 14+ show, so not one for the younger ones. The Man-Wulf is the one doing the challenging, and Lee is the one responding to it, all while he works through those anxieties he mentions. It's at Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne on Sunday 1 November, starting at 7:45pm.
