Career
He directed both spoof science parody series Look Around You and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning British Broadcasting Corporation 2 show Stewart Lee"s Comedy Vehicle. Recent television credits include SKY & National Broadcasting Company"s You, Maine and the Apocalypse, the critically acclaimed The C Word, and the Bafta nominated, My Mad Fat Diary, In the United States, he has directed the Emmy winning Home Box Office show Veep (television series), in which he directed episodes from season 2 & 3. Grace & Frankie, Brooklyn Nine Nine, & Manitoba Seeking Woman.
He has previously made documentaries with Motörhead, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest for the multi-award winning documentary strand - Classic Albums.
Stewart Lee"s Comedy Vehicle, a six part comedy series featuring standup and sketches, began a six episode run on 16 March 2009. The first episode was watched by approximately 1 million viewers.
lieutenant was executive produced by Armando Iannucci and script edited by Chris Morris. The first episode received positive reviews from The Independent and The Daily Mirror, although the show received a negative review, written by Stewart Lee in Time Out, in which he described himself as "fat" and his performance as "positively Neanderthal, suggesting a jungle-dwelling pygmy, struggling to coax notes out of a clarinet that has fallen from a passing aircraft".
Kirkby is represented in the United States by Civil Aeronautics Administration, in the United Kingdom by Curtis Brown, and is represented as a commercials director in the United Kingdom by Bootlegfilms, and in Spain by Smile.
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