Coco Kahn

He also denied there was a war, but claimed Iran was begging for a ceasefire and insisted the Strait of Hormuz was open before demanding that Iran reopen it.

So as politics and comedy collide in ways which we as a news and comedy podcast will be all over, it's great to be joined by the comedian Stuart Lee.

Stuart, it's a cliche to say people need no introduction.

It's probably because there's just too much to say.

But one of your newer job titles is opinion column writer for The Nerve.

So we want to talk to you more about that in detail.

But first, welcome.

One of the things I thought about watching that clip, and I don't want to presume the politics of everyone involved with the making of it, but...

I would imagine that they're not massive fans of Donald Trump.

And it's a strange thing that when you participate in the kind of national conversation for someone that you probably would regard as worse, kind of taking joy from it and being gleeful about it.

And that must be a kind of uncomfortable situation to be in where you're like, well, actually, I'm trying to enhance...

dialogue in my country but there's this kind of nefarious bigger actor who wants to utilise that for his own aims and it kind of made me think you must bear with me on this I was like wow everyone in Britain is a South Asian woman now when you're a South Asian woman and you ever want to talk about things that are related to gender

You often hold back because you're like, as soon as I start talking about this, white people will take this for their own racist ends and say, oh, these people are uncivilised.

And you're constantly in this bind all the time.

And I was like, wow, the decification of Britain has happened because now as Brits, it's like, well, if we critique...

Yeah.

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The idea that comedy should be harder hitting, I agree with.