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March of the Lemmings
March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 20162019 | Stewart Lee
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As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the Brexit referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience. He would treat all his subsequent writing, until we left the EU, as interrelated episodes of a complete work. The cast of characters include Lemming-obsessed Michael Gove, violent tanning-salon entrepreneur Tommy Robinson and Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Bumboys Letterbox Cake Disaster Weightloss Haircut Bullshit Johnson. A dramatic chorus is made up of online commenters and Kremlin bots. And Lee himself would play the defeated, unreliable narrator-hero, whose resolve and tolerance would gradually unravel as the horror show dragged on. Until the 29 March, 2019, when it would all definitely be over Drawing on three years of newspaper columns, a complete transcript of the Content Provider stand-up show, and Lee's caustic footnote commentary, March of the Lemmings is the scathing, riotous record the Brexit era deserves.
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We saw Stewart Lee's show tonight, and (naturally) I came home with a couple of books. The show was his usual mix of wit, mock condescension of his audience and genuine condescension of right wing and reactionary public figures. Having been doxed by terfs after a previous show, he was at pains tonight to be clear that his routine about R*wling's use of a male gendered pseudonym for her adult fiction wasn't about *that* issue! Honest! ✊🏳️‍⚧️