Episode 38 - Stewart Lee - The StageLeft Podcast

[@NikoHL]

My favourite cultural commentator/ critic. Great interview.

[@shaunbunker4240]

He is a genius . I'm bamboozled by critics that don't get his act . I hope he continues to tour after his well earned break .

[@jambutty2218]

I think they don’t agree with his political views and don’t want him getting exposure .

[@eisforegg]

Great interviewer, really well-informed and low-key. Stewart is interesting as ever. Thanks for this.

[@ackerjawaka1966]

Great interview ⚡

[@CAMZAB]

Really enjoyed listening. Good interview, too many people trying to say what they like when they interview him, I've noticed, as opposed to trying to interview him. You got a lot of great stories and chat from him. Thanks. Mark E. stuff was a perfect tribute too.

[@jacksonvega7751]

I love a good Lee cackle

[@dennysigfalk4886]

Really good interview, enjoyed it here in lockdown Stockholm

[@jakeharries8097]

Easily the best interview I've heard with this artist. Nice one!

[@ptesweats8940]

Great interview, man. Stew's always insightful but you took him down some interesting avenues. Thanks! Subscribed.

[@Littlehickish]

Really loved when stew said “you’ve really done you’re research”, really sweet. I’d be glowing if I was the interviewer

[@rabbitss11]

"your" research

[@Littlehickish]

rabbitss11 oh yeh hadn’t realised I’d done that lol

[@rabbitss11]

sorry, I'm the reluctant grammar Nazi

[@chris-stagelefthost298]

Career highlight for me I reckon

[@fluorosco]

@@chris-stagelefthost298 sycophant

[@dr.zacking2097]

Loved this - might have well let myself go but in spite of it......ta v much

[@JohnDRobinsonelectronicdrums]

a quality interview..thank you!

[@realbigdipper]

GREAT interviewer

[@frankhumbug]

Stewart Lee the comedian is proper funny. But I like Stewart Lee the human.

[@sbhatti534]

I like his cheeky cackle-laugh.

[@sratus]

Very good interview, so well done there

[@MrHarbonaut]

Great interview - listening to Dick Gaughan, Handful of Earth. Really enjoying it - thanks Stew

[@trevorrandom]

Yep! He's a legend

[@Malky5279]

Would love to see the sitcom cowritten with Alan Moore.

[@atomiccritter6492]

tbh if its anything like Moores ventures into horro films it will be kind of crappy

[@gavinbayliss]

@@atomiccritter6492 oo

[@ketchup5344]

Climbing into a bed in a hotel room, slept in the previous day by no less a person than Stewart Lee, I noticed a sticky area on the blankets. I thought flippin heck, Stewart Lee's let himself come.

[@brendancronin4786]

David Wilder very good.after seeing all these he's let himself goes comments I'm sick of it but yours was good

[@dc3189]

Well that was dumb as fuck.

[@claudiaxander]

which is ironic when one considers how obsessed he is with the artists failure to control the dissemination of his precious product once we understand how his subconcious mind reveals all: disseminate (v.) c. 1600, "to scatter or sow for propagation," from Latin disseminatus, past participle of disseminare "to spread abroad, disseminate," from dis- "in every direction" (see dis-) + seminare "to plant, propagate," from semen (genitive seminis) "seed"

[@NxDoyle]

I'm stunned. Had no clue Mark E. Smith had died. I'm as stunned that it took two months to find it out, on a podcast I'd not heard of before today.

[@chrisfox2890]

Absolutely fascinating chat - thank you. Unhurried and in-depth. (Saw Lee a few weeks ago, really wanted to meet him after the gig but wasn't sure if he did signings.)

[@andreawilks4405]

Chris Fox he sets up a stall after his shows and sells his own merchandise and signs it for you. I saw him on my birthday and he kindly gifted me a copy of his latest book.

[@chrisfox2890]

Hi Andrea - thanks so much for the info. After his Content Provider show he said he'd back in two years so hopefully can meet him then! Sounds like a lovely guy gifting you his book. x

[@andreawilks4405]

Did he actually say 2 years? I keep reading that after this run he is taking his longest ever break from comedy since he went to ground years ago so I thought it was going to be a lot longer. I hope it is just 2 years. Yes I saw the same show last year (and am tempted to go again). Yes he was really kind to give me his book.

[@chrisfox2890]

Yes, at the end of the show here in Chichester (at the Festival Theatre) his last words were "See you in two years!" I get the impression he's having a year off and then back on the road, and he said he'd never do a tour as long as this again (ie over 18 months). Maybe will start new tour summer 2019? Do you get his newsletter? Was it the Content Provider book? He'll be 50 in a few weeks. I've been a massive fan about 10 years now. You?

[@andreawilks4405]

Chris Fox yes I signed up and yes it was that book. It was my 50th when we went and I asked him what he had planned for his own that's how it came about. I have been aware of him since he first came about but would not have described myself as a big fan then. He was so good looking I always thought he was younger than me and at that time was more into Baddiel and Newman, Reeves and Mortimer. I think its since Comedy Vehicle I have become obsessed. I understand he does a lot of benefits that he plugs on his newsletter so that might be a way to catch him when there isn't a tour and I guess with his wife in the same job they have to balance out their workloads to meet family demands.

[@goldenteacher2011]

Top interview, cheers

[@TheAfiAfiAfi]

Top job!

[@markharrington3775]

Dear Stewart, I just heard about you going in to the basement Virgin shop in Brum in this interview, and I did the same thing a few years before you possibly (1978), and just wrote about it in the comments to The Great Outdoors - You Do Lose Hope clip on here. As I noted in there, a Hippy fellow was behind the counter on my first visit, and he was playing the ECM album Silent Feet, which I left with tucked under my arm. Our musical lives took slightly different directions, but converge in so many places, I love all that acid folk as well as the artists on Incus. Who knows how different our two lives would be if I had been the one who met Martin, and you were the one who walked in on the gorgeously lyrical bass solo behind Charlie Mariano?

[@JohnSmithiuyytw]

Great interview.

[@Pretendship]

fantastic interview

[@sallyward3652]

Why is the system/circuit so loaded against shining original lights and so weighted in favour of the beige bland dull Russells?

[@Benzyl]

Unchallenging reproduceable content providers, the gifts that keeps on profitably giving.

[@paulrouhan7288]

Around 23 minutes, children says the funniest things bit - Young Stew would have hated that!

[@dooshdashcams2629]

Graney is a treasure.

[@brianm2881]

That Telegraph article was written by Dominic 'Whooosh!' Cavendish.

[@elicohen6348]

Even the birthday cake was a joke.

[@SRTC1perceptions]

I miss the curious orange

[@CAMZAB]

Can't they just sell out a little bit and make Curious Orange rubber or plushy toys? Full scale obviously, with his banana hand.

[@ozmonaut1]

Mark E Smith passed away 48 hours after this was recorded

[@CARLIN4737]

Brilliant 🌞

[@DrewBloo]

1:06:48 *rabbit holes

[@oliverdevine2181]

52:40 gets me

[@Jimbobiscuit]

Sounds like KD Lang has let himself go

[@wmperry2790]

Anyone have aguess as to the music memorabilia hes not supposed have?

[@ianclarke3627]

Mike stand off The Jam that Sid Vicious got the blame for pinching?

[@loungejay8555]

The industry has let itself go.

[@hanumaniam]

Netflix have no idea

[@joefarang]

found it! fucksake stu laconic 1:36:08 is pronounced lah-konik. i knew there'd be a flaw somewhere. otherwise superb, i love hearing stu for comedic reasons or just like this clip and the interviewer here has a decent bag of questions.

[@simonmullen9884]

Is the interviewer on speed? How do I slow down his questions? It’s terrifying

[@PhanTomProphet]

1 thumb down ... let it go richard! ;)

[@92RedRevolver]

Like Stewart did?

[@deanwright7611]

I was night fishing in the Thames once and got a massive tug on the line from somewhere in the weeds. After a bit of a struggle, involving long pauses which wasn't funny at all, I managed to reel in my catch and I'm buggered if it wasn't Stewart Lee! Anyway I didn't harm him, I just weighed him, a real whopper, and ….. Let him go.

[@ItsTSNonline]

This isn't the first account of someone landing Stewart Lee in the Thames..Thanks for sharing.

[@jambutty2218]

Warren Mitchell had to give up being Alf Garnet from what I’ve heard. People thought he actually was him and meant it.

[@outwithrealitytoo]

Yeh, he used to get asked to volunteer to open local Conservative Association fetes, and when he used to say that wasn't his politics it was a character they would ask him to do it in character...for money.

[@CARLIN4737]

You didn't have to prove how many people you got through the door! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeerm! Interviewer.

[@fraac]

nice

[@rosiewhite8313]

I'd happily send him my £10 a year xxx

[@fishmoint8064]

Mark Smith from then jerico has let himself go

[@andrewgoff484]

Pacman has really let himself go.

[@jointhe6461]

Close. It's actually 21 years old.

[@jointhe6461]

and then the thread got of the bus

[@jointhe6461]

ah

[@thekaratekidpartii2169]

28 years old

[@johnmason1239]

he may not still be so aesthetically pleasing, but if he lulls the bourgeoisie neoliberal leftist elite sipping their craft beer&nibbling on hummous into a state of docility so be it, his job is done

[@theham69]

A fridge or a pc fan or something in the background. Aaaarrrggghhh. OCD.

[@Heronjim]

Peter Lorre has really let himself go

[@MatrixExpress]

memes have really let themselves go

[@gazriley624]

Hattie Jacques has let himself go

[@johnmason1239]

gareth hale out of 1990s comedy duo hale&pace has really let himself go like a jaded Slovakian war criminal

[@FionnMoriarty]

Oh look, Slobodan Milošević has let himself go.

[@dionysiaex5538]

Stewart Lee endlessly going on about how he doesn't want to be famous whilst simultaneously wanting to be famous enough to survive. If I didn't want to be famous I'd go on TV and the Internet too.

[@dionysiaex5538]

@@williamdew7143 You're like Ian Huntley to me.