Stewart Lee

I've been on high blood pressure medication for about ten years.

What's that all about?

I don't know.

Bad diet in the 90s?

Bad diet in the 90s.

I never sleep before four in the morning because I've spent so much time on stage that my adrenaline levels are all wrong.

I've lost about three stone in the last couple of years.

Looking good.

Well, a lot of it is from doing your werewolf every night because I run around in that costume for an hour.

I watched your Robert Lloyd documentary and you looked like a garden gnome.

That was me at my absolute worst of health-wise and also... It's not a bad look, by the way.

Yeah, yeah.

You could be in Middle Earth.

That film was at the Margate Film Festival on Sunday and I watched it again.

That's exactly what he was, yeah.

But, yeah, I watched that again and I realised what a low ebb I was at at the point of doing that.

I mean, look, another thing that I did, and I'll say this because, you know, over the sort of 15 years that I was doing Comedy Vehicle, I mean, I wrote...

I write about 20 hours of stand-up of a high quality.

I can see when I watch those shows how tired I am.

And I think my life, relationships and health really suffered during that period of producing all that work while the opportunity was there and being on the road all the time.