Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle 4 (DVD 2016)

Stewart Lee's final, and most punishing, BAFTA and multiple-British Comedy Award winning BBC2 stand-up series; recorded live at The Mildmay Club in Stoke Newington, it features six half hour sets on Wealth, Islamophobia, Patriotism, Death, The Migrant Crisis, and Childhood Memories. Chris Morris returns as the hostile interrogator, picking apart Britains most consistently critically acclaimed stand-up. A family-sized bucket of extras includes deleted routines, film items, unreleased audio, and gut-spilling interviews.

Comedian seems an inadequate term for this intelligent, thoughtful, almost philosophical figure. Every frame of the Comedy Vehicle is freeze-dried to ironic perfection, containing more layers than a mille-feuille pastry, a textural delight. --The Independent

Somehow, he managed to turn a full three minutes of the sounds of a cat's diarrhoea into the most plosive and gorgeous argument against deference. It was wonderful, and I still stand and applaud its sculpted perfection. --The Guardian

Lee caters for the smug, right-on, middle class Guardian-reading crowd who share his elitist prejudices. --Gary Bushell, The Daily Star