Stewart Lee

But when I finally went to the NHS about it, the curve showed that it was just progressive deterioration and there were no spikes of damage.

And in fact, the first time I ever met my father, anyone that's ever heard the interview will have heard this,

The first thing I noticed about him was that he had hearing aids.

Your birth father?

Yeah, yeah.

And the first thing I said to him was, oh, look, you've got hearing aids.

And the first thing he said to me was, yes, everyone in your family goes deaf and you will as well.

So there you are.

That was the great inheritance that I had.

All I inherited from him was deafness.

I was not hearing as much as I wanted in the rooms.

And I never thought anything of it, but it always seemed to me that people on the far left were particularly bad at laughing.

And actually that's just where there's a problem in that side for that.

Cochlear.

Yeah.

Isn't that funny?

So that's a good thing about stand-up is everyone's problems should be able to become an advantage.

Everything that's difficult for you, you should be able to weaponise it in some way.