Stewart Lee

Yeah, it was because, you know, we put years of work into that show and at the point where it should have settled into a viable thing, it was stopped largely by him.

And it was so great to see her.

And I was really not for six by it.

And I thought it was very brave of her to come and say hello.

So, yeah, it was great.

Well, he wasn't really.

I remember seeing it.

He's wearing a nappy?

Well, he wasn't wearing a nappy.

He's wearing a lungi?

In the first half, okay, basically, my contribution to the opera was to copy the plot of The Wizard of Oz, whereby, if you remember, in The Wizard of Oz, all the people that Dorothy meets in her everyday life...

re-emerge as fantasy caricatures of themselves in the dream sequence, which is The Journey to Oz.

So all the people that Jerry Springer met in the first half re-emerge in the second half in the fever dream that he has in the moment between being shot and dying.

They re-emerge as analogous religious figures whose stories in the first half, that the squabbling couple come back as Adam and Eve,

The sort of father figure, bigamist bloke comes back as God.

The man who in the first half was wearing a nappy because he was a coprophiliac comes back as Jesus in a loincloth like Jesus wears in all the paintings of Jesus.

He is specifically not in a nappy.

It's like a nappy, and that's why he thinks of it, because he's in a nappy in the first half.

And Jesus, the most famous images of Jesus are all those crucifixion paintings where he's in a loincloth.

So that's why that was that.