Louis Theroux

You start with the Beaker people, or does it go backwards?

Huguenots coming over here taking eye drops.

One of the things, obviously, that you've become, I don't know, famous for, but certainly you haven't held back on, is calling out other comedians, right?

Yeah, again, it doesn't... Right.

And I never know, because another thing you've said is that on stage you're in character and you play the character of Stuart Lee, funnily enough.

Am I in character now?

But nevertheless, I would say I kind of go in and out of character.

And I do believe in, you know, may I say it's got non-binary in a sense, like the idea of shifts, you know, tones.

Tonal shifts.

Tonal shifts, register shifts.

So it's a fallacy, the idea like I'm now in character.

I'm going to call you a cunt.

Now I'm not in character.

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.