
'When you've won two British Comedy awards, a Bafta and a Chortle award all in the same year, it's easy to rest on your laurels and I find that grappling with Twitter's stylistic limitations helps me keep my wits sharp and my comedy muscle match-fit.'
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 8:12, Reply)

and Trigger making a face. That's proper comedy innit.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 8:43, Reply)

I think you'll find that the article is a pisstake, and Lee's 'modesty' is, and always has been, a joke about his fame - or lack of it.
I'm not the biggest fan, but unlike Gervais (a total cunt) who is almost singularly obsessed with fame, I think most of Stewart Lee's stuff is based on a carefully staged persona.
*Walks away slowly, lighting cigarillo*
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 8:47, Reply)

that just makes him even more of a cunt
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 8:51, Reply)

and apparently, the whole thing's a satire on the sort of person that would write a column like that.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 13:35, Reply)

( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 8:53, Reply)

He knows his audience well.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:26, Reply)

I'd put him up there with the godlike Daniel Kitson as one of the best standups working today.
Big fucking gap between the two, but still, up there.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 8:59, Reply)

But I do like him when he's on his game, takes deconstruction to untold heights.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 9:01, Reply)

He's easily as good as mrs browns boys
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 10:06, Reply)

of boasting about his position on Twitter, which does require people to know that he's not actually on Twitter, admittedly.
I assume he's using a few real facts to prop up his lie.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:20, Reply)