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In the pantheon of UK comedy, Stewart Lee has been and remains one of our all time favorites. His expertly wry sense of humor and knack for weaving metatextually in and out of bits is something we’ll simultaneously marvel and bust up laughing at.

Lee will be having a chat with the UK’s The Idler about comedy and, well, of course, the world at large and how one is going to figure in the other in the future. Hearing Lee’s take on everything that’s going on right now is something we definitely want to hear and that you might want to catch as well.

We’ll all get a chance to do so later this month on Thurs. Oct. 29th at 11AM PT/2PM ET/7PM BST. Tickets are free for this live-stream and you can (and very much should) go get them here.

Pick of the Day: Armando Iannucci and Peter Fincham Have a Drink with the Idler

May 19, 2020

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For over a score of years, The Idler has been a go to UK magazine and online education source. In these times of live-streamed everything, they’re having a series of roundtable discussions, done remotely of course, with various luminaries from several different corners of expertise.

This particular edition of the Drink with The Idler is great interest to us because it features one of the great comedic minds of our time, Armando Iannucci. Iannucci created Veep, The Thick of It, and Avenue 5 and helmed such films as In The Loop and Death of Stalin. He also just happens to be one of the few people who has given a lecture on comedy to a national intelligence agency.

Iannucci will be the guest to the Idler’s Tom Hodgkinson and will be joined by producer Peter Fincham and writer/philosopher Mark Vernon and we’re thoroughly curious what the discussion will bring especially in regards to comedy and perhaps how Armando might touch upon it in future projects.

This edition of A Drink with the Idler is set for Thurs. May 21st 10AM PT. You can join the live-stream for free, so long as you RSVP here.

Pick of the Day: A Drink with the Idler | Stewart Lee and Tom Hodgkinson

Pick of the Day: Armando Iannucci and Peter Fincham Have a Drink with the Idler