The Comedian Stewart Lee Came in Our Perfume Stand Today He Is Even Less Funny in Real Life
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"I'm just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable."
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
"When I was fourteen, I had a massive poster on my wall of a giant pop-art mouth advertising a Swiss exhibition of abstract art. My friends and family mocked my pretention, but I loved that poster and the hope it offered of an exciting world of thought beyond the boundaries of stifling Solihull. But one day the poster fell off the wall and the dog pissed all over it, ruining it for ever, while my mother laughed. That poster is what the Alternative Comedy dream meant to me - the possibility of a better world. And now it is covered in dog's piss."
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
"Most Americans do not own passports. They're not a naturally curious people. If you were to lock an American for sixty years in an empty underground bunker which contained nothing but a woolly tea cosy, the American would not even be curious enough to be tempted to see if the tea cosy would make a serviceable hat. They're far more likely to arrest the tea cosy, intern it illegally in Guantanamo Bay, and then repeatedly anally rape it until such time that it admits that it was actually a member of an al-Qaeda training cell. Even though at the time of the alleged offence the tea cosy was actually working as a shop assistant in a branch of Currys in Wolverhampton."
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
"Within a few years these "jokes" as we comedians call them, will have been entirely purged from my work in favour, exclusively, of grinding repetition, embarrassing silence and passive-aggressive monotony."
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
"Ironically, I am reliably informed that Michael McIntyre doesn't actually have a "man drawer", and invented the concept in order to ridicule ordinary people, for whom he has nothing but haughty contempt."
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
"I am sick of reading on Daily Mail message boards that I am 'one of these foul-mouthed modern comedians' when I am absolutely not. Honestly, who are these cunts?"
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
"Writing this now, God, how I miss the cultural side of the eighties - the rhetoric, the raggedy clothes, the politics, gigs you were frightened to go into, Radio 1 when it had weird bits, Channel 4 when it was radical, the NME when it had writers, and the thrill of discovering underground music and new comedy for yourself."
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
"I don't think stand-up should really work on the page, so the very existence of this book is an indication of my ultimate failure as a comedian. The text of a stand-up set should be so dependent on performance and tone that it can't really work on the page, otherwise it's just funny writing."
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
― How I Escaped My Certain Fate
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