Louis Theroux

I don't think you're a cunt.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

The character of Stuart Lee is a jealous, delusional, bitter, arrogant person, anxious to give a good account of himself.

Actually, there was a better one where you talked about him being sort of woke and pious and patronising and a scold.

We were talking about it's funnier to be more aloof, more arrogant, owning your worst qualities.

Yeah.

But also about the fact that that's involved...

casting shade at, or whatever the phrase would be, other comedians.

Like, you sailed quite close to the wind on that.

Famously, perhaps this might be one of your most famous jokes, where you talk about how you kept hearing that James Corden was a fan, and it was starting to get up your nose.

Every time you would say he was trying to be a fan, he was a fan, you'd say, like, he was just trying to seem intelligent.

It was a running gag of yours is that people that come to your comedy

to prove that they're intelligent, to sort of seem elite.

You'll own that.

That it's sort of six music listening, Guardian reading, you know, knit your own yoghurt types.

Anyway, and you say, like, imagine James Corden watching one of my routines.

It's like a dog listening to classical music.

What Stuart Lee would have done.

It would be helpful if you had a different name for that person.