Louis Theroux
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Ben, I think, would be conscious of power dynamics.
He'd be thinking about, actually, is this okay?
Has he ever reached out to you?
Do you know Ben?
Are you friends with him?
I mean, really, he's had his hand in a lot of great stuff.
Ask him.
He'll tell you that himself.
Well, I shouldn't say that, but he's conscious of, I think he does feel a little bit bruised.
Why not?
I do.
I'll tell you.
Do you want to know why?
He's great.
I think you know why.
Why?
He's too left wing?
Well, because he came up as an alternative comic and then he became enormously successful and wrote the Queen musical and there was some sense of cultural consent or whatever.
It was seen as being too close and people felt maybe Stuart Lee was chief among them that he sold out.
People saw him as a hypocrite.