Stewart Lee

So I was the third one, which just wasn't as funny.

I thought the idea of it being Neil Young and then someone no one's heard of would be... Yeah, good company to be in.

No, it's all right.

Maybe I'll meet and get the Joe Rogan audience.

Yeah.

It'd be great.

I've been to the country.

Well, I did the Montreal Festival in Canada, which is a trade fair for the American comedy industry about...

three or four times, and they used to make me go to New York to do gigs before to warm up, which is pointless, because you do a seven-minute set in front of a brick wall.

I know everyone else on the bill is awful.

And you go to silence, and they're just confused of why you can possibly have been

brought there you know so but um i had years of weird development deals i had a film on the go for about 15 years when i went backwards and forwards to hollywood all the time before i finally just gave up on it yeah i thought that you'd written yeah i had lots of adventures what can you say about that

Well, I can say that at one point I had Alan Rickman, Peter Fonda and Daryl Hannah all lined up to be in it.

That's quite a line-up.

Yeah, and Alan Rickman was a fantastically helpful bloke, really nice.

He would have been alive at that point.

He was alive.

But it's a good question, though, in the modern world, because presumably he could be regenerated by it.

Exactly.

It's still not too late to make it.