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You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.
— Stewart Lee
Tags: suffering, world, you, life

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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
Tags: some, end, ideas, beginning
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
Tags: want, who, think, today
I'm very grateful to my adoptive family. My mother sorted my life out.
— Stewart Lee
Tags: my-life, mother, family, life
I went to a hypnotist to learn how not to use drinking a pint before you go on as a way of giving you the confidence to just fly at it, irrespective of the fear. That's not a long-term strategy, when you do as many gigs as I do.
— Stewart Lee
Tags: fly, fear, you, confidence
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
Tags: see, worst, you, me
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