Stewart Lee being brilliant
I’m a huge fan of Stewart Lee and love this paragraph from an interview that appeared in the Financial Times:
He [Lee] especially regrets the disappearance of the old “support networks”, such as the unemployment and housing benefits, that enabled artists to live cheaply and find their way. “It’s all over. There’ll come a point when somebody will suddenly realise – there’s loads and loads of Coldplay but there isn’t a Radiohead, there’s loads and loads of ITV1 sitcoms, and things with Robert Lindsay in a house, but there isn’t a League of Gentlemen. Someone will be reading an embossed novel about a missing artefact, and they will suddenly think, ‘Didn’t there use to be books that were not just a list of events?’” In 40 years, he reckons, people will be saying, “Where’s all that stuff gone that was … good?”
(via @mbatey, a fine colleague of mine and fellow writer who you should all follow immediately)
