Stewart Lee

Isabelle - no, that's Richard Herring. They had a telly programme together back in the 90s.

Have seen Stewart Lee live several times. I thought he was funny, obviously - or I wouldn't have gone back - although he has a tendency to sneer at the insufficiently left wing so the above doesn't surprise me.

The purity spirals thread is really interesting.

HorseWithNoLang What does that mean, “Eskimo-face”?

That’s Richard Herring that does that, isabelle

No that’s Richard Herring, who has said some pretty ignorant and misogynistic things too.

I went to see him once with a friend who is an uber fan. Hated the show.

His comedy doesn’t do it for me, because so much of it is about wrong footing and discomfiting the audience, then showing them how cleverly he’s led us by the nose to demonstrate his point. Because he’s just so clever! So very clever! I can easily imagine that wokescolding is not a stretch for him. It’s kind of his stock in trade, isn’t it, while he denies that’s what he’s doing?

Sorry if he has gone for the intellectually lazy woke points and it wrecks his comedy for you, OP...all this is a bugger for exposing feet of clay.

Wasn't he the one who used to spend International Women's Day on Twitter replying to all the angry MRA's to tell them that yes, there IS and international men's day?

I always quite liked that. But yes, smug. And apparently not a friend of women unless he is getting woke points for it. But now that feminism is old news and trans rights are where it's at, he has maybe moved on.

He's the one with the Eskimo-face from the nineties, yeah?

He's been sucking at the BBC's teat for years, no one should be surprised.

Spot on about purity spiral

Lee. Hmm. Dh liked him and so I watched him on TV once. Once was enough. "Smug" is certainly the word. Having recently read the thread on purity spirals ( www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3809276-Purity-spirals ), I think he's been in a spiral for all his career quite some time.

There's a few comedians doing the holier-than-thou right now - Frankie Boyle! The man who happily 'joked' about Katie Price's son and Madalyn McCann/Jimmy Saville tweeted

"For the avoidance of doubt, I have zero interest in whatever transphobic neuroses you fill your days with. I have no time for anyone denying anyone else their freedom to live the life they need to live. Gtf."

Shouldn't be surprised really.

I saw him at a comedy show at the Union Chapel in Islington a couple of years ago. It wasn’t just him, there was about 6 different comedians, male and female. Raising awareness for a charity, I can’t remember which one. The ticket was reasonably priced, so I thought why not?

He admitted then that his audiences had been spilt by Brexit, and that he wasn’t getting as many laughs as he previously had.

He was OK, I’ve seen funnier comedians. Personally I prefer Ricky Gervais and I think his last TV series Afterlife was the best thing that he’s written.

I saw him live about 10 years ago and thought he was pants. he tried to get the audience to give a round of applause for the IRA. No one did.

I dunno if I liked fist of fun because I was young and stupid then, or if it really was funny, but he ain't funny now.

You could give us a review, then we will know.

I sometimes wonder how much thought stand up comedians put in once the moment that put them in the public arena has passed.

Is it the Snowflake Tornado tour? We have tickets for next month, we go to all his shows when he's local.

Oh dear.

I've never liked him. I saw him once and he was extremely tedious and smug. And not funny.

I don't know nor care what his views are on gender critical issues are. He was always an insufferable, "I'm right and you're wrong and I'm better than you" leftie. And that was when time I was left wing too.

His even unfunnier (if that is possible) wife is a complete pain too.