The unorthodox comedian’s latest act, an introspective look into people, culture and the essence of stand-up itself - | dG1fTTk5bDlQdXp0MFk
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00:00What it is with me is I'm coming to a place and people don't know I am and they look in the
00:04brochure and they go should I go and see this Stuart Lee? Should I go and see him? And then
00:09their friends go yeah you should yeah you should go and see him really it's the sort of thing that
00:15you should you should go and see like it's a necessary but unenjoyable experience.
00:22A bit like when you're on holiday in Eastern Europe and you're having a really great time
00:25but just down the road there's the scene of some awful World War II atrocity you know
00:32and your partner goes we should we should go and see that really because we're here
00:39and then you go well I'm in the sea I'm having a well we're here we should we've come I've got a
00:45pina colada we should go and see it and then you go and see it don't you and it's awful and it
00:50makes you despair of all humanity and you have a horrible and I'm the that of comedy basically.