Stewart Lee back on the BBC
Snowflake and Tornado filmed as stand-up specials
Stewart Lee’s current stand-up tour is to be broadcast on the BBC as two stand-up specials.
The two-part live show, Snowflake and Tornado, will be filmed in York this week, to be screened on BBC Two later in the year.
The Corporation aired his previous stand-up show, Content Provider in 2018 – two years after they declined to renew his Comedy Vehicle series citing budget cuts.
Lee said: ‘As you probably know, The Times has called me "the world's greatest stand-up", so I am happy to find my natural home once more with the world's greatest broadcaster, where anyone can see me for free, even though the money at Netflix would have been literally one thousand times better (if they would have had me).
‘Tornado is a tangled shaggy dog story about backstage hospitality and flying sharks, and features a cameo from a venerable legend of British comedy; Snowflake reflects my experience of the current culture war and politicians' and comedians' cynical attempts to exploit it, and includes extended retching and a sickeningly sincere song.’
Lee’s shows at York’s Theatre Royal tonight and tomorrow – as part of a 60-date tour – will be filmed to create two hour-long specials.
Ben Caudell, commissioning editor for BBC Comedy, said: ‘o have one Stewart Lee show is a massive treat, to have two is a complete comedy indulgence. If there was a third show I would probably be actually sick. Sick but happy. Which is how I want to die.’
Made by: Awkward Films and BBC Studios
Commissioned by: Jon Petrie, director of comedy commissioning
Commissioning editor: Ben Caudell
Executive producers: Colin Dench and Richard Webb
Producer: Sam Michell
Director: Al Campbell
Published: 4 May 2022
