Louis Theroux
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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.
Good luck, everyone.
You have amazing poise on stage.
And in fact, maybe above the writing is kind of...
Confidence that you project, an ability to own the room.
Yeah.
It's striking reading about you, reading your book.
This almost Damascene moment that took place when you were 26, would you say?
When you're working as a marketing guy for Shell and you'd gone to Cambridge.
You'd grown up in Slough, west of... Notoriously, I shouldn't say this to all my fans in Slough, but it's my word for being...