Stand-up faces down his critics

STEWART LEE doesn’t do “fast gags”.

He favours ideas and weird turns of phrase.

He is an arch satirist, a scourge of all that is lazy, cruel and anodyne in British culture. Lee refers to comedian Michael McIntyre’s act as “warm diarrhoea” and wonders whether or not people at his shows are laughing at him or just excited about seeing someone famous in a football stadium.