Stewart Lee’s latest monthly newsletter, in which the comedian reviews all the culture he consumed in 2021, has resulted in reactions trending on Twitter. The list of people on his ‘put in the Pedal Bin’ list and conversely his ‘put on a pedestal’ list has caused the biggest reaction.
More than 6000 tweets in response to his lists have been posted not all condemning the outspoken comic. Much of the condemnation stems from his inclusion of Nimko Abi on the pedal bin list.
Nimko Ali OBE is the social activist co-founder and CEO of The Five Foundation, the global partnership to end female genital mutilation.
Actress Amanda Abbington tweeted “I used to like #StewartLee Why on earth would you say that about the glorious and wonderful woman that is @NimkoAli She is one of the most incredible females and does more for women and girls than anyone I know. Shame on him. Idiot.”
Tracey-Ann Oberman said “Anyone who can reduce @NimkoAli and her work and what she stands for by ‘putting her in the bin’ has jumped the relevance shark . Or is being perversely ironic . Similarly that same man puts Ash Sakar on his ‘pedestal’ in red. Ignore him. Pointless.”
Ironically Le
e is not on Twitter nor any other form of social media but no doubt his wife, comedian Bridget Christie, will keep her husband up-to-date with events.
Stewart Lee is on tour in 2022 and as they say ‘all publicity is good publicity’.
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Here’s the lists:
On The Pedestal
The Christmas Lorry Jam Dover Sikhs
Michael Rosen, Long Covid Chronicler
Kunt & The Gang
Asian Dub Foundation
Kent Rufugee Action Network
The Kent Lorry Park Sinkhole
Mark Kermode
Fire records
Owen Jones
Marcus Rashford
Miriam Margoyles
Barbara Nice
Bob Geldof
Philip Edgar-Jones
Adam Buxton
Ginherbeardmark
Ken Loach
Sadiq Khan
Alexei Sayle
Alice Roberts
Janina Ramirez
Miri Rubin
Nesrine Malik
Ask Sarkar
Jana Prikryl
David Olusoga
Nish Kumar
Count Binface
Rob Auton
Johnny & The Baptists
Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site
Gigbuddies
Sam Coates
Val Doonican
Gareth Southgate
England team
Nate Mercerau
Dawn Foster
RNLI
Jolyon Maugham & Good Law Project
Andrew, Eden & Leila Kotting
Lisa Nandy
GP’s
Hannah Gadsby
National Trust Members
Ben Wilson, chewing gum painter
Angela Rayner
Greta Thunberg
Malala Yousafzai
Simon Kofe, Tuvalu speaker at COP26
Stella Creasy MP
Voters of North Shropshire
Kunt & The Gang again
In The Pedal Bin
Alan Yentob
Donald Trump
Toby Young
Andrew Neil
Robert Jenrick MP
Gavin Williamson MP
Gillian Keegan MP
Allegra Stratton
James Forsyth
Roger Daltrey
Bruce Dickinson
Lawrence Fox
Priti Patel MP
Tom Tugendhat MP
Desmond Swayne MP
Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
Usrula von der Leyen
Laura Kuenssberg
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Mail
The Daily Express
Boris Johnson PM
Piers Corbyn
Michael Gove/Sarah Vine MP/WAG
All my yellow Fred Perry shirts
Dominic Raab MP
Ricky Gervais
Mumford & Sons and all their wives and dads
Piers Morgan
Stig Abell
Graham Linehan
The Daily Telegraph again
The Museum of Brexit
Clapham Common Police
Julie Burchill
Nimco Ali
Carrie Symonds
The Aspinall Foundation
Samuel Kasamu
Ben Elliot
Dr Tony Sewell CBE
Keith Fraser, Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
Lord Ajay Kakkar, Professor of Surgery at University College London
Dr Dambisa Moyo, internationally renowned economist and author
Martyn Oliver, Chief Executive Officer of Outwood Grange Academies Trust
Naureen Khalid, experienced school governor
Aftab Chughtai MBE, Businessman
Mercy Muroki, Senior Policy Researcher, Commentator, and Columnist
Charlotte Nichols MP
Martha Gill
Vladimir Putin
David Cameron
Rishi Sunak MP
Scrabble
Nadim Zahawi MP
Oliver Dowden MP
Richard Tice
Chris Mason, BBC
Michelle Donelan, MP
Keenan Malik
Matthew Offord MP
All GBNEWS presenters, guests, backers, advertisers and viewers
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Grant Shapps MP
Winston Marshall of Mumford and Sons specifically
Winston Marshall’s Brexit dad specifically
Matt Handcock MP
Roy Wood
Andrew Bridgen MP
Dougie Smith
Darrell Maclaine
Giles Coren
Steve Baker MP
Lord Bethell from The Ministry of Sound
Alok Sharma MP
Desmond Swayne MP
Joe Biden
The Taliban
John Cleese
Jimmy Fallon
Nadine Dorries MP
Nica Burns
Spitting Image
Dave Chapelle
Netflix
Ted Sarandos
Restore Trust
The Common Sense Group
Stephen Green
Simon Jenkin
Baron Frost
Fishermen
Poland
Owen Paterson
Kwasi Kwarteng
Jeff Bezos
Christian with megaphone & siren, Camden
James Goldsmith
250 Tory MPs that voted to save Owen Paterson
Geoffrey Cox MP
Van Morrison
Eric Clapton
Jaz Coleman
Private Box owners at Royal Albert Hall
Shaun Bailey
Simon Case
Maureen Lipman
It’s because she broke lockdown rules by being Boris and Carrie Johnson’s guest at Christmas 2020. Nice to see these irrelevant actresses truthfully nailing their colours to the Tory mast for once