by Stewart Lee
This evening, as I write this, eight indicative votes, designed to give some direction to the country’s next Brexit move, have all been rejected by Parliament. Michael Caine’s coach cantilevers on the cliff edge. The gold he coveted slides towards the doors. You shoulda killed me last year!! Save. Press ‘send’.
Stewart Lee. When all this Brexit shite is over people like you better be prepared to bung some money up North to places like Teesside or Hartlepool. Disabled Scapegoat
1 My friend, the performance artist and writer Ben Moor, emailed me after reading this piece to say he had lived in the area described many years ago, so I sent him a photograph I had taken of the layby where the march assembled. ‘Yes, that’s it,’ he replied, ‘we’d ride our bikes and find porn mags in that exact layby.’ Ben and his friends were all twenty-eight years old. I am now retiring this joke.
About the Author
Stewart Lee began stand-up in 1988 at the age of twenty and won the Hackney Empire new act of the year award in 1990. In 2001 he co-wrote the libretto for Richard Thomas’s Jerry Springer: The Opera, which went on to win four Olivier awards. His most recent live shows have been Carpet Remnant World (2011), Much A-Stew About Nothing (2013), Room with a Stew (2015) and Content Provider (2017). In December 2011 he won Best Male TV Comic and Best Comedy Entertainment Performance at the British Comedy Awards and his BBC show Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle won a BAFTA in 2012. In 2018, he was described by The Times as the world’s greatest living stand-up comedian.
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