If I could travel through time, I wouldn’t go back and change anything in my life, because I’m delighted with the way it’s turned out. Stewart Lee Read Quote
The idea of what’s acceptable and what’s shocking, that’s where I investigate. I mean, you can’t be on ‘Top Gear,’ where your only argument is that it’s all just a joke and anyone who takes offence is an example of political correctness gone mad, and then not accept the counterbalance to that. Stewart Lee Read Quote
Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens. Stewart Lee Read Quote
It’s interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That’s one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on. Stewart Lee Read Quote
Normally, when I write a tour show, it’s got a title that means something – a beginning, a middle and an end – and some kind of storyline and ideas going through it over two hours. Stewart Lee Read Quote
Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience. Stewart Lee Read Quote
I don’t think I’d want to be a comedian today if I saw it on the telly. I wouldn’t think it was a thing for weirdoes and drop-outs; I’d think it was a thing for squares who wanted to be famous. Stewart Lee Read Quote
The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing. Stewart Lee Read Quote
