Stewart Lee

Yeah.

It's very au courant.

Yeah, I've been really lucky.

Often you live in fear.

I had one show and it was all about the politics of Brexit and whatever and talking about Boris Johnson was a key element of it and he was the kind of thread that tied it all together.

And I ended up touring it for quite a long time.

And I kept thinking, he's going to get sacked, because he kept doing insane things.

I thought, he's going to be sacked.

And any normal politician would have been sacked or resigned at that point.

And I had this weird thing where I didn't want him to go, even though I couldn't stand him, because it was the spine of the show.

And then, amazingly, about four or five days after I did the last performance, that was when he finally...

finally went and so you worry that sometimes shows are retreating from you you have to tour them around for about 18 months two years and sometimes the ideas become less relevant or drift but this every day something sharpens it up um and uh

I'm going to film it at the last possible moment in October next year and then, you know, hopefully get it out within a couple of months, wherever it ends up going.

But it's horrifying the speed at which it is being focused by events and attitudes.

Yeah, I'm aiming my guns at that comedy style, but also...

it is fun to do it because it's easy because, you know, as someone from the liberal, I mean, I talk about this in the show, as someone from the 1980s liberal alternative comedy tradition,

We were encouraged by what you now call wokeness to think about the validity of our targets, whether those people deserved it.

And I am politically correct.

I try to be politically correct.

But the Netflix comedian doesn't have to think about that.