It's worth pointing you in the direction of the following two interviews that Stu submitted himself too about a month ago. In the first he talks about material for the show, his increasing popularity, and some of his projects in the pipeline. In the second he makes me feel rather uncomfortable by mentioning the widespread pirating of his material online. If you've seen my YouTube page you'll know that I am the principle distributor of Stu's material on YouTube. He talks quite candidly and reasonably about it, to be honest, which is slightly unusual considering how his livelihood depends upon selling DVDs and other merchandise. Also, it was confirmed very recently by Armando Iannucci, the producer of Stew's BBC programme, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, and the mastermind behind In The Loop, that a second series of Stu's six-part series has been confirmed by the bigwigs. Excellent.
Secondly, Stu has a book coming out, published by none other than Faber and Faber. It's a collection of his stand-up routines galvanised by his own matrix of margin-annotations, footnotes, and alterations that Stu gathers as he tests his material. He can explain it better than I, and, in his own words:
For Faber it's going to be the most low-brow book they've ever done, but in terms of a stand-up comedy cash-in book it's going to be the absolute Rolls-Royce. It's the most high-brow comedy book ever done, but simultaneously it's the shoddiest thing in Faber's catalogue.What's more, contrary to the sentiments of his emotional tirade during the live show, it appears a live DVD will, in fact, get shot from this routine and hit the shelves, along with the book, entitled, How I Escaped My Certain Fate, later this year. For a portion, my favorite portion of Stewart Lee's last live show, in which he performs a tender version of Steve Earl's Gallway Girl, see the clip below. ("Do some rape stuff. Send us home laughing").
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