noooo, Stewart lee is very much alive and well and contemporary.
My son has booked me a ticket to see him next month in London – front tables too.
It’s a particular style of humour – the slow burn, where he says things which aren’t either funny or relevant in a rambling story. Then the story comes together, and the irrelevant/unfunny things are taken up to become hilarious.
He makes fun of other comics though, like Graham Norton and some foul-mouthed guy with goggles (Roy Chubby Brown. I’ve just been told was his name). He’s particuarly fierce with racist comics like Bernard Manning, who are the favourites of some of the people on the boards.
Don’t know whether you’d like him though, as he’s long-winded – like me