Stewart Lee

It is slightly different because there's not a tradition of

of depicting Muhammad, as I understand it.

And also, even within the Christian faith, if you think of the mystery plays from the Middle Ages, there were fairly robust depictions of Christian religious figures in those that were used to do social satire about contemporary issues of the times.

I think they've always been...

kind of quite flexible to us as artists and writers in Christian cultures.

We've always been able to play a little bit fast and loose with them to tell other sorts of stories.

But they're not that useful anymore, unfortunately, because most people don't really know anything about the Christian religion anymore.

And there are some good things about that.

You can't necessarily use it to win a moral argument in the way it used to be enough to just say, the Bible would say, don't do that.

But what it does mean is there isn't a framework for telling stories, which I think is a shame that it's gone in that way.

Or for understanding, you can't understand the greats of Blake and Milton.

You can't understand that without initially knowing your way around the Christian religion.

So I think other things will start to fade into meaninglessness because we don't really understand that.

I also think it means a lot of people are offended by things without really understanding them.

I mean, Tommy Robinson...

is telling the Church of England they need to put the Christ back into Christmas.

So it basically means the religion is misunderstood enough to be appropriated by the far right.

So they're in it.

I hadn't seen that.

Put the Christ back into Christmas, yeah.