Stewart Lee

A 1-hour Documentary looking at the Manchester post-punk group and its infamous leader Mark E Smith. The Film follows the current band recording their final Session for the John Peel Show (they were his favourite group and recorded more sessions than any other band) as well as chronicling the chaotic history of the band & its numerous line-up changes. Featuring John Peel, Stewart Lee, Marc 'Lard' Riley alongside The Fall. (imdb)

Stewart's 2007-2008 stand-up show

Stewart's 2005-2006 stand-up show

Stewart Lee's 2012 stand-up show.

Following hot on the heels of last year's French fancy This Our Still Life (2011), visual artist Andrew Kötting returns to selected cinema screens with Swandown (2012), a very British travelogue following the filmmaker and an assorted band of associates as they make their way from Hastings to Hackney, via the Olympic site, in a swan-shaped pedalo. (Cine-Vue.com)

Lee discusses 9/11, William Wallace's homosexuality and nationalism amongst other absurdities.

Stand-up comedy and sketches united by a theme for each episode. It is script-edited by Chris Morris and was initially executive-produced by Armando Iannucci, marking a rare reformation of a creative team formed for On the Hour in 1991. (en.wikipedia.org)

A T.V sketch show set in the future looking back over the beginning of the 21st century, between 2005 and 2030. (imdb)

Stewart Lee attempts to understand his place in a digital dystopia. (youtube)

After hearing comedian Frankie Boyle say that all comedian over 40 should quit because they're not angry enough any more, 42-year-old Stewart Lee ponders youth, piracy, pears and the hatefulness of the Top Gear presenters. (imdb)

Documentary about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales.

Follows the return of 80 year-old folk singer Shirley Collins to the limelight as she records LODESTAR, her first album in 37 years, juxtaposing this with the noted 'Southern Journey' song-collecting trip Collins undertook in 1959 with noted ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. The music recorded on the trip received renewed attention in 2000 with the release of the Coen Brothers' O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU, the soundtrack of which was built around the music archive from the trip.

This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain’s turbulent Thatcher years.

Hilarity prevails as comic geniuses Stewart Lee and Richard Herring present their musings via the medium of sketch. (imdb)