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Stewart Lee shared his “favourite book”, which can go away some shocked, as it isn’t an immediately recognisable title. The stand-up comedian, finest identified for his deadpan supply, opened up on his love of Arthur Machen’s 1924 non-novel, The London Adventure. Alternatively titled The Art of Wandering, the absurd work is 96 years previous however has a particular place within the 52-year-old’s coronary heart. He shared on his web site: “The haughty writer-narrator, newly bound by the responsibility of fatherhood, must now write for money rather than art, ‘a prostitution of the soul compared with which the prostitution of the body is a little thing’.”

Lee defined how he associated to Machen’s work. He felt compelled to “write for money” in the course of the coronavirus lockdown, when he repeatedly posted on his web site as many venues have been closed to forestall the unfold of illness.

He additionally shared how he “refused to participate in the daily outdoor exercise hour” in protest towards the Brexiters and their “incompetence”.

Lee’s views are famously liberal, and his onstage supply often alternates between that of an outspoken left-wing hero and that of a depressed failure and champagne socialist.

He has usually criticised audiences for not being clever sufficient to grasp his jokes, saying they would favor extra simplistic materials, or benefit from the work of extra mainstream “arena” comedians equivalent to Michael McIntyre or Lee Mack.

After accepting an honorary fellowship from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Lee gave a lecture to aspiring writers through which he accused fashionable stand-up comedians for utilizing writers who weren’t credited.

The comic is presently showing in Stewart Lee vs. The Man-Wulf on the Southbank Centre, the place he shares the stage with a “tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of the subconscious who hates humanity”.

The present’s opinions have been combined to this point, with BBC typing: “If this is supposed to be a ‘Comedy Vehicle,’ someone had better call the RAC to get it started.”

While Digiguide stated, “This has to be the most unfunny stand-up I’ve ever seen. I’ve not laughed, smirked or grinned once at Lee’s quips. What an absolute waste of time. 0/10.”

The Telegraph remarked: “Lee makes Kim Jong Un look comparatively relaxed. Maybe it’s time to lighten up a little?”