Stewart Lee

When I do stuff on the BBC, which I don't very often, but all my jokes have to be fact-checked, I have to tweak them a little bit just to make sure that there's not a generalisation being made.

I can make an exaggeration in the punchline, but the set-up has to be factually accurate.

None of that applies to Joe Rogan on Spotify.

He's not fact-checked.

and say what he likes.

Doesn't apply to anything on Twitter.

Doesn't seem to apply to most American news outlets.

No one fact checks Trump about his claims to have ended 50 million wars or whatever.

You know, it just goes on.

So they need to get rid of facts.

So the freedom of speech is about ideas.

It's not the same as just being able to say things that aren't true, that are factually not true.

There aren't alternative facts.

There's alternative theories, but there aren't alternative facts.

So we're in trouble, you know.

I think Trump deserved a FIFA World Peace Award.

I think that is the award that he deserves.

I'm disappointed in Robbie Williams generally, irrespective of the event.

Robbie Williams was brought to see me at the Soho Theatre about 20 years ago by David Walliams.

What a night out that must have been.