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* [[Deconstruction]]: Lee loves to set a joke up or a particular set or style, completely ruin it, then spend the next 20 minutes explaining in detail every aspect of the joke and why it is funny.
** For instance, this routine deconstructs the sort of things that observational comedians derive humour from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z3nJ0HKKjQ
* [[Don't Explain the Joke|Don't Explain The Joke]]: Lee's humour often revels in subverting this comedic rule, sometimes deliberately pushing it deliberately to reveal the absurdity of the jokes, other times just to save Daily Mail journalists a long and pointless email correspondence. His book "How I Escaped My Certain Fate" is basically him [[Better Than It Sounds|dissecting his routine and explaining the thought process behind each joke.]]
* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: From 'How I Escaped My Certain Fate'. "I'm sick of reading on Daily Mail message boards that I am 'one of these foul-mouthed modern comedians' when I am absolutely not. Honestly, who are these cunts?"
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: In a routine about interviewing Ang Lee about his making of [[The Hulk]], Stewart Lee milks a joke about 'Don't make me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee' for all it is worth (finishing with another incredibly lame pun about him going to the dentist at 2.30).
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* [[Present Company Excluded]]: Real Life example, when Lee won the City Limits New Act of the Year competition, the judge told him 'Well done, we'll show those Oxbridge wankers like Rob Newman and David Baddiel what real comedy is". The judge then resorted to this trope when Stewart Lee informed him that he too was an Oxbridge gradate.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]. The only possible refuge for a particular routine involving vomiting in Jesus's face.
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: ''This Morning with Richard Not Judy'' was jostled around a bit and at one point the show was moved from it's normal Friday slot to Thursday, only nobody at the BBC told anybody involved in the making of the show about it and the episode wasn't yet edited to be shown. So Lee and Co had to rush around to find an editing suite to get the show done in time.
** Also there is the infamous failed BBC show. That was commissioned and given the green light for a pilot. Then the BBC had a change of heart and required the pilot first before the series would get commissioned. Before finally being rejected a year after being commissioned with no pilot filmed.
* [[Speaking, Like, Totally Teen]]: His TV routine about rappers 'You know the rappers that they have now, on the top of the pops? And outside the shopping precints'
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