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Stewart Lee

The Guardian

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If 2025 is anything like 2024, I’ll be back on the Baileys

If 2025 is anything like 2024, I’ll be back on the Baileys

Christ was born in a barn. This proves that he came for all humankind, as well as reducing his parents’ options for witty off-the-peg verbal...

05.01.2025 30

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Stewart Lee

Starmer’s tiny gaffe has made him a sausage to fortune

Addressing the subject of Gaza on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer called for the “return of the sausages”, which was a surprise to those of us who...

29.09.2024 40

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Stewart Lee

Oasis: a guilty pleasure without fringe benefits

“In Russia, nostalgia is regarded as an illness,” declared the mighty comedian Simon Munnery once, “or at least it used to be, in the good old...

01.09.2024 50

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Stewart Lee

It’s mating season on X, as Musk courts Trump

The dorsal fin of the tiny remora fish conceals a suction mechanism, enabling it to cling to sharks, which are full of urea and can live for many...

18.08.2024 10

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Stewart Lee

Britain burns while liberals check facts

Let’s get ready to rhumble! As heroic locals and beleaguered police battle to stop cocaine-fuelled hard-right rioters burning people to death,...

11.08.2024 60

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Stewart Lee

Republicans beware: weaponising pets is a political minefield

The Ohio senator JD Vance has attacked “childless cat ladies”, going so far as to suggest infertile cat owners, or cat owners choosing life...

04.08.2024 10

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Stewart Lee

The Tory gravy train’s left town – but it’s got all my best gags on board

A female black rod has declared the wokest parliament ever open! Allow yourselves the luxury of hope. But while you must remember the poor, and the...

14.07.2024 10

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Stewart Lee

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