Stewart Lee

That means you're probably eligible for some funding if you have any comedy projects in development.

It's funny what you said there.

Even discussing the idea of the Islington thing, you sound like one of those people and they're always going to beat you on that.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

Actually, I do need to go to Islington soon for a very Islington-like reason.

A famous Australian drummer staying in my flat managed to slightly flood the bathroom and I need to repaint the ceiling with some Farrow and Ball paint.

And the only place I know where you can get that is on Cross Street in Islington.

So that's where I overlap with the Islington.

It was sort of like, you know, when you're kind of flustered.

Yeah, right.

Also, if you haven't got hearing aids in, you have to guess what people are saying.

Right, and then you can... And then you get it wrong.

But actually, sometimes that's really good fun.

I've got really great ideas from completely mishearing things.

Oh, really?

Yeah, and stuff people shout at in audiences.

I mean, there's a whole bit in the last live...

thing that i shot where someone was shouting out at me the name of the manager of manchester uh one of the manchester football teams and i just didn't couldn't understand it i thought he was saying pet gladioli i couldn't understand right yes what it was at all i got like a quarter of an hour out of it and people know it's great when you're sending not to know what that was yeah i was

couldn't hear it it just went on and on and on for ages and it became a sort of thing there's something quite good about leaning into it sometimes but not if you end up having to pay £175 every three months for loads of cat food yeah I mean you do have a cat don't you I've got three cats so I get through a lot of cat food but I don't want to I want to get it I want to get it when I want it you just don't want to be subjected to it I don't want to be subjected to a tyranny of cat food purchasing no any more than I do to a tyranny of fascism