Stewart Lee on "Netflix comedians”, disastrous gigs, and Elon Musk

Louis Theroux· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello there. Welcome to the Louis Theroux Podcast. [gentle music] My guest today is comedian, director, writer, and 41st best stand-up ever, Stewart Lee. Stewart is one of the most influential and admired stand-up comedians working today. Known for his meticulously constructed routines, which rely on repetition, repetition, repetition. That's my joke. An amusing and ironic sense of superiority to his audience and a kind of wry and laid-back delivery. The music of his inflections is one of his most appealing assets as a comedian. Uh, a lot of the most famous routines he does are on YouTube. I've seen him live several times. He's very comfortable on stage. He's sometimes compared with Ricky Gervais. He came to fame before Ricky, um, and he writes openly in his book about the ways in which he feels maybe he influenced Ricky or that Ricky overlaps with what he does. Nevertheless, his voice is wholly his own. Stewart came on the podcast to discuss his current stand-up show, Stewart Lee Versus the Man-Wolf, which involves him in the middle. Is this a spoiler? Not really. He dresses up as a kind of, uh, werewolf