200 - Stewart Lee

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

One of the most iconoclastic, pioneering and influential comedians in Britain, Stewart Lee has forged his post-punk ideals into a thrillingly funny live act, with the very form at his fingertips.We explore the deliberately uncomfortable tension between the man and the stage persona; discuss his self-imposed exclusion from the comedy community; and investigate his unshakeable conviction that he is in fact unsuccessful.

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0:18.0	Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 5-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Bloom's book, Repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not
0:24.7	being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.
0:42.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
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0:51.0	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians, comedian pod pod- Hello and
1:15.0	today I'm bringing you a long conversation
1:18.0	and today I'm bringing you a long conversation
1:21.0	two hours and 15 minutes or thereabouts with someone who is one of the most
1:26.0	iconocastic, one of the most skilled, talented, pioneering, and certainly one of the most influential stand-up comedians in British comedy
1:34.8	in world comedy this is Stuart Lee.
1:40.3	Most years I do about three months on the circuit if you know what I mean from about
1:48.1	April to sort of June and I'll try and do five six nights a week and then I do get to see lots of new acts then.
1:54.3	But there are so many, and when I started doing it in 1989, there was only about 80 people doing this
2:01.2	nationally. So you knew everyone pretty quickly and you could kind of
2:06.1	keep pace with its development. But the last 10 years has exploded and also I'm a bit disconnected
2:11.8	from it. So I don't, I really like that three months being on the circuit
2:15.0	trying to see people I've not seen before
2:18.0	and try and sort of work out where it's at and what direction is going in,
2:20.0	but Max really good, because something you know how it's booked and the
2:25.7	sort of festival it's become means that lots of people on there are the sorts of
2:30.1	people that I would be interested in anyway you know so and so there's been a sort of filter put on it.
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