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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Stewart Lee - Reckless behaviour, 'the greatest living comedian' and 30 years of stand-up

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary


Sofie talks to Stewart Lee about 30 years of stand-up comedy, being a parent, reckless behavior, the character of Stewart Lee, having a different childhood to the one people imagine, clown theory, obscure '70s musicians, not being recognised and being described as the greatest living comedian.


Trigger warning – violence, being mugged, mental health issues, death threats, adoption, divorce


Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

It's harder to be as cynical as one should be about the way the world's going because you've got a stake in it.

0:06.3

Not your stake, but the stake of people that have been burdened with life by you.

0:10.6

You know, they didn't ask to be born, but they are now and it's your fault you hope things

0:13.8

won't get down the pan too quickly for them you can't just be cynical you feel like

0:17.8

you have to fabricate a glimmer of hope on their behalf you are listening listening to Made of Human, also known as the Mole Part, a podcast hosted by Sophie

0:28.2

Fagan, who is a Danish comedian.

0:31.8

Mole Trying to find out

0:36.0

how to do life

0:38.0

mow but it turns out

0:41.0

nobody knows mow I'm talking to you from a h

0:48.9

I'm talking to you from a haunted building in Luxembourg and everything is happening at this very moment.

0:59.0

I mean, so the building first so the building is used to be a military hospital and is now and was then for 200 years a prison and is now like a place where they put up artists performing at this very venue.

1:23.6

So like all the walls are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years old.

1:29.5

It's very spooky looking.

1:31.6

Like I will, I've posted photos of it on my

1:34.8

Instagram. It's basically the probably the most haunted place I've

1:38.2

stayed although I did also stay once in an old prison in Oxfordmesan, and that was also scary.

1:45.0

But like where I'm at right now,

1:48.0

used to be two cells.

1:51.0

Ugh! It's so weird.

1:55.0

so weird. So that's the one thing.

1:56.0

So I'm in this bed recording this in a haunted building in Luxembourg

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