Stewart Lee

So what did nail in that routine, and often that bit gets cut off, is people being nostalgic about the time before anything existed, when life was at its most simple, when there was no matter or energy or nothing.

And I kind of think that that's the...

the reduced to absurdity position of the far right is this kind of weird nostalgia for an imagined simpler past.

Yeah, so that's the bit that everyone knows, I suppose, and the bit that people are sick of as well.

Look, you understand this.

You're in character when you're interviewing.

You play a faux naïve when you're interviewing some of those people.

No.

There's no need for it with me.

You play a faux naïve and also you play up to an English middle classness in America which disarms those people.

There's something in that.

Do you know what I mean?

Felt weird calling you a cunt, even though I was in character.

Can you do that on Spotify?

Can you say that?

Right, wow.

Yeah, it's all the things that I am, which in normal everyday life, you check them.

You check them and pull back on them.

And they're useful traits to amplify...

Well, that's because that's what critics would say about it.