STEWART LEE Leicester Square Theatre

There is something likeable about a comedian, who can read out his bad reviews and publish them on his website. His main targets include the audience (whose IQ he insults, patronises and flatters continuously), other stand-up comedians (whose delivery and material he caricatures and thrashes) and, ironically, his own act and its lack of material. He has a 4-year-old son and, as he explains, his vision these days rarely extends beyond Scooby-Doo. Lee has a dead-pan, aggressive, cerebral, middle-class approach to comedy. Provocatively (he can be lethal), he investigates what it is acceptable and unacceptable humour; he dissects and analyses a joke and shows just how unfunny it is, even whilst the audience is roaring with laughter. Stewart Lee is a comedian for grown-ups who enjoy irony. The irony is often at their expense.