4: Stewart Lee

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🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, writer and director, Stewart Lee is one of the most revered stand-ups in Britain.

Stewart will be on tour from late 2019 through the first half of 2020. His new book ‘March of the Lemmings’ is available now, you can find out more at - https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/

The music in this episode is by ‘Waiting For Smith’, go and check out more from ‘Waiting For Smith’ on Spotify.

This episode contains adult language and themes.

Produced by Dan Quick

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0:00.0	I was lucky enough to spend an hour with philosopher, writer and man clowns, Stuart Lee, where we discussed, amongst other things,
0:14.9	milestone birthdays.
0:15.9	Well, I thought 40 was pretty good fun.
0:19.3	I thought it was very funny, but 50 I found out pretty depressing.
0:23.0	This is where I was not for about a year.
0:25.0	It was all right at first. I thought it was funny to say,
0:27.0	well, I'm 50 and what I think is...
0:29.0	Actually...
0:30.0	All right, Granddad.
0:32.0	For the 51 one's pretty much. All right granddad. The 51 is really good one was that?
0:34.0	51's sort of, because you can sort of mark out the rest of your...
0:41.0	Have you ever gone in as a 50 year old I think this? Yeah, but I wouldn't, but it's not as funny as being... It just feels a bit...
0:50.3	I wonder if being... What is 50 like for being when you're a bloke
0:53.4	because for me about to turn 50 it feels like I don't want to be part into the era of
0:59.4	invisibility that's what they call 50, I got mugged actually in November.
1:04.0	And I celebrate three mugging.
1:05.0	Yes.
1:06.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:07.0	I got mugged in November.
1:08.0	And it was a real eye opener actually because what happened was,
1:11.0	it was November the 5th or that weekend and I was walking along with the kids
1:15.1	about 4.30 by the park and they'd gone on a little bit ahead of me luckily and I had two
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