History Trivia / StewartLee

* MoneyDearBoy: The reason for his appearing on a stream of quiz shows in 2006 was to pay for his wedding.

* CreatorCouple: Averted with his wife, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Christie Bridget Christie]], who although a successful and respected comedian in her own right, does not work with him. They appear in parodic form in each other's work, she in his as a weird devout Catholic who makes him sleep on the toilet, he in hers as an unreconstructed male chauvinist pig who hates feminism.[[note]]He notes in his book ''How I Escaped My Certain Fate'' that when he was first going out with her, she witnessed an early version of his notorious "vomiting in the gaping anus of Christ" routine, and critiqued it on the grounds that Lee made Jesus submit to a whole load of horrible abuse as part of his critique of religious oppression, whereas Jesus would have willingly invited such abuse as part of his solidarity with the oppressed. Lee took this on board and rewrote the routine accordingly. Christie also has a credit in ''Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle'' for "Monk joke", meaning her description in her own show ''A Bic for Her'' of Creator/AndrewLloydWebber as looking like "a monk in a wind tunnel".[[/note]]

* CreatorCouple: Averted with his wife, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Christie Bridget Christie]], who although a successful and respected comedian in her own right, does not work with him. They appear in parodic form in each other's work, she in his as a weird devout Catholic who makes him sleep on the toilet, he in hers as an unreconstructed male chauvinist pig who hates feminism.[[note]]He notes in his book ''How I Escaped My Certain Fate'' that when he was first going out with her, she witnessed an early version of his notorious "vomiting in the gaping anus of Christ" routine, and critiqued it on the grounds that Lee made Jesus submit to a whole load of horrible abuse as part of his critique of religious oppression, whereas Jesus would have willingly invited such abuse as part of his solidarity with the oppressed. Lee took this on board and rewrote the routine accordingly. Christie also has a credit in ''Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle'' for "Monk joke", presumably meaning Lee's description of Creator/AndrewLloydWebber as looking like "a monk in a wind tunnel".[[/note]]

* OneOfUs: He has an encyclopediac knowledge of Marvel comics, particularly ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk. (He once challenged an audience member to ask him a question about The Hulk comics strip; when the audience member jokingly asked him what colour he was, Stewart Lee correctly replied that he was grey for the first few issues). His website is designed to resemble a comic book.
** He is also a massive fan of free improvised music. When he went on ''Celebrity Mastermind'' he chose as his specialised subject "The Life and Work of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bailey_%28guitarist%29 Derek Bailey]]"[[note]]English guitarist and master improviser[[/note]]. And won.

** And yet again in season 4 of Comedy Vehicle where he blames the audience for the suicide of famous comedians. In one of the extras, he says he once did a set and go into a verbal fight with one of the audience and had to end the bit as he worried it would become violent.

* OneOfUs: He has an encyclopediac knowledge of Marvel comics, particularly the Incredible Hulk. (He once challenged an audience member to ask him a question about The Hulk comics strip; when the audience member jokingly asked him what colour he was, Stewart Lee correctly replied that he was grey for the first few issues). His website is designed to resemble a comic book.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His show '41st Best Stand Up Comedian' was based on the fact that Stewart's mother once raved about a joke told by cabaret entertainer and former TV Quiz show host Tom O'Connor, which she said was better than anything Stewart had done. When he had nearly finished writing the show, he rang his mum to ask for permission to use this in the show...she responded that the comedian she liked wasn't Tom O'Connor but someone she couldn't remember. Rather than abandon the idea, Stew thought that the idea the his own mother thought he wasn't as good as some unknown comedian was so hilarious that he incorporated it into the show.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His show '41st Best Stand Up Comedian' was based on the fact that Stewart's mother once raved about a joke told by cabaret entertainer and former TV Quiz show host Tom O'Connor, which she said was better than anything Stewart had done. When he had nearly finished writing the show, he rang his mum to ask for permission to use this in the show...she responded that the comedian she liked wasn't Tom O'Connor but someone she couldn't remember. Rather than abandon the idea, Stew thought that the idea the his own mother thought he wasn't as good as some unknown comedian was so hilarious that he incorporated it into the show

* OneOfUs: He has an encyclopediac knowledge of Marvel comics, particularly the Incredible Hulk. (He once challenged an audience member to ask him a question about The Hulk comics strip; when the audience member jokingly asked him what colour he was, Stewart Lee correctly replied that he was grey for the first few issues).

* CreatorCouple: Averted with his wife, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Christie Bridget Christie]], who although a successful and respected comedian in her own right, does not work with him. They appear in parodic form in each other's work, she in his as a weird devout Catholic who makes him sleep on the toilet, he in hers as an unreconstructed male chauvinist pig who hates feminism.[[note]]He notes in his book ''How I Escaped My Certain Fate'' that when he was first going out with her, she witnessed an early version of his notorious "vomiting in the gaping anus of Christ" routine, and critiqued it on the grounds that Lee made Jesus submit to a whole load of horrible abuse as part of his critique of religious oppression, whereas Jesus would have willingly invited such abuse as part of his solidarity with the oppressed. Lee took this on board and rewrote the routine accordingly.[[/note]]

* CreatorCouple: Averted with his wife, Bridget Christie, who although a successful and respected comedian in her own right, does not work with him. They appear in parodic form in each other's work, she in his as a weird devout Catholic who makes him sleep on the toilet, he in hers as an unreconstructed male chauvinist pig who hates feminism.[[note]]He notes in his book ''How I Escaped My Certain Fate'' that when he was first going out with her, she witnessed an early version of his notorious "vomiting in the gaping anus of Christ" routine, and critiqued it on the grounds that Lee made Jesus submit to a whole load of horrible abuse as part of his critique of religious oppression, whereas Jesus would have willingly invited such abuse as part of his solidarity with the oppressed. Lee took this on board and rewrote the routine accordingly.[[/note]]

* CreatorCouple: Averted with his wife, Bridget Christie, who although a successful and respected comedian in her own right, does not work with him. They appear in parodic form in each other's work, she in his as a weird devout Catholic who makes him sleep on the toilet, he in hers as a male chauvinist pig who hates feminism.

** He is also a massive fan of free improvised music. When he went on ''Celebrity Mastermind'' he chose as his specialised subject "The Life and Work of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bailey_%28guitarist%29 Derek Bailey]]"[[note]]English guitarist and master improviser[[/note]]. And won.