So actually my one and only exposure to Stewart Lee was a clip of him dealing with a heckler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQod7j-Cak https://www.youtube.co

So actually my one and only exposure to Stewart Lee was a clip of him dealing with a heckler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQod7j-Cak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQod7j-Cak And that was what won me over! Other comedians would insult the heckler... but his response, oh gosh. If it's too hard to understand, here's a little bit of the transcript of the end: STEW: "Huh? But, I can't do something else now." [LAUGHTER] STEW: "This is what I do. I can't-- There isn't-- There's not time..." [LAUGHTER] STEW: "...to construct a bespoke act based around you." [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] STEW: "It doesn't give me any pleasure to have wasted your time. I genuinely apologize. I genuinely do, because I've been in that situation myself, with kids, where I've got a babysitter, and I've gone to something, and it's not what I'd hoped. I'm genuinely sorry. I can't really-- I can't really say any more than that." MAN: [INAUDIBLE] STEW: "What? I can't do what you want me to do. I can't do it." [LAUGHTER] STEW: "I'm genuinely-- I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've annoyed you. I'm sorry that you got here and it wasn't what you hoped. But I can't just change now. And also, you know, objectively, I have a mortgage and I have children. What I'm doing now, I'm seeing a degree of a financial return for it. And that feat-- I was going a long time since I started to break even. I was about 36, 37... ticked over, and... I mean, how long can I carry on working at this level? 10 years before it starts failing? I don't know. But it would be a gamble to ditch this..." [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] STEW: "...to try and fulfill whatever it is you think I should do. Even if you're right, I've gone too far down this road to... I'm as a much a prisoner of my expectations of myself as you are of yours. And that is the common ground that we have. [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] STEW: "So, my wife had been away--" For my first time, I will now gladly watch the comedic bit by him