Stewart Lee

I didn't know what to do with them.

And there was no bin.

I put them in the cistern of the toilet and put the lid on it.

Reverse Godfather thing.

But I didn't come out and talk about this as if it was a huge victory.

I realised that it was a mess that I'd made that I had to deal with.

I'm still not... I'm not proud of it in the way that Trump appears to be proud of having had to just clear up the mess that he made.

It's not... I'm not trying to trivialise the war by saying it's the same as me making a mess.

I think so.

It's something that's in perpetual motion.

And at the moment, it's fixed.

It's obviously not going to work.

So the deal is better unrealised and talked of as if it's in a perpetual state of becoming.

I mean, there have been some great deals in history like that that have worked, like the Good Friday Agreement, which allowed both sides to think contradictory things, and until Brexit messed it up, was absolutely a fine and functioning thing.

But that's not this deal.

That's not this deal.

No.

Well, he presents everything as a deal.

He presents everything as a deal.

And I mean, it's a cliche to say it's transactional, but I think that's the only way you can think of things.