Stewart Lee

And I don't want to do that.

My best joke, well, the one that I get stopped about in the street every day, and I was stopped this morning by a guy about it, is a routine from, I think, 2013 about waves of migration into Britain that was on Comedy Vehicle, and it never seems to go away.

It's been sampled by Asian Dub Foundation, where I think it got to number one in the charts, although it was not played by any...

radio stations, obviously, and it just goes round and round and round, partly because endless waves of people on the far right keep restating the same arguments, which it counters.

So that's probably the most famous one.

Yeah, it starts with now, and it works back through Neolithic people and Beaker people, and it works back to... What's the framing?

Yeah.

Well, the people are coming over here from all these different... Coming over here.

I can't remember.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then it gets back to the idea that it was better when nothing existed, which I was thinking about today.

I was talking to Armando Iannucci this morning about an idea and he was talking about how a lot of the far right is about a nostalgia for an imagined better past.

In fact, Anderton, what's he called?

Lee Anderson?

Lee Anderson was talking about how he thinks disabled people should be given those little blue three-wheeler cars that they used to have.

Robin Reliance.

Yeah, they used to have a little specially adapted one-seater.

Oh, did they?

This would be better than them having money to use for their own transport.

There's this kind of nostalgia for a simpler past.