Stewart Lee
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The Daily Mail always used to reel him out for a quote and they stopped.
I think he got a bit too hot for them, you know.
Yeah, that was what caused all the trouble, really.
Yeah, but again, it's kind of meaningless.
That's quite a feather in the cap.
It's sort of meaningless, though, because the internet was starting, so it was easy to mobilise complaints.
And most of the people that complained about it wouldn't have seen it.
I think it was 60,000.
That's what Stephen Green said.
He said...
The Muslims have stolen a march on us, he said.
That was his quote.
He felt that in the economy of offence, they were being outperformed by other religions.
Was that the phrase he used?
Yeah, the Muslims have stolen a march on us.
No, I just made that up.
But it was like that.
It's like, well, why can't, why can they do cartoons of Jesus?
Yeah.
Well, I think it's different.