Stewart Lee

Yeah.

Alan Bennett is, you know, I've been really, really lucky with some of the people that I've met.

I'm so glad that I met him and that he liked the work.

I think he means it's theoretically rigorous.

Yeah.

Right?

You know, I occupy a position and I hold on to it and I don't compromise that position just to get laughs.

Well, it's easy to get laughs.

Is it?

Yeah, once you work it out.

It's just little tricks, little linguistic tricks and attitudes and moves.

Sometimes you can't get laughs.

I kind of know...

how to get laughs now after all this time i didn't want to start it out the trick is every show i like to i like to put something in that people wouldn't normally have seen stand-up can be a great trojan horse for smuggling in things from art that a normal person wouldn't want to see or wouldn't think they'd want to see like in the snowflake tornado show i basically did 10 minutes of

free jazz vocal improvisation as an impression of Ricky Gervais' Saying the Unsayable.

So, you know, exposed people to a kind of avant-garde technique, but under the cover of it being an impression of someone.

Well, for every person that says that, there's someone that would say it's the funniest thing they'd ever seen.

That's the thing about the extreme stuff.

It's either the people's favourite bit or they hate it.

But I think they kind of come along expecting there to be a bit they can't stand.