Stewart Lee

In fact, there's a positive financial value to them not thinking about it because if they create a fence, it creates interest.

It tends not to lead to cancellation, although they like to think that it does.

It tends to lead to an inflation of your market value.

So it's really great writing the nasty werewolf set and being able to sort of do anything.

And also to be...

I try not to run the room in a bossy way as myself.

I try to absorb any aggro, like a soft target.

I don't like having to run the room.

I can do it.

but the werewolf can do that and it's great.

What do you mean by run the room?

Put people down, control heckles.

I try to let things play out and I try to deal with problems like that in a gentle sort of way if I can.

I don't like having to be like a club comic like I was for 10 years in the 90s where you have to...

So it's very liberating being a werewolf.

It's really good fun.

Is that a performance decision or is that like a moral decision?

It's a performance decision and it's also because a lot of my stuff is about me as a sort of weirdly low status figure who...

thinks in his mind that he's the greatest comedian of all time and should get more respect.

But I have to kind of keep a lid on the status, if you know what I mean, for the jokes to work.