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Bard jokes: how music-hall greats inspired Stewart Lee to meddle with Macbeth

The stand-up comedian describes how he gave a modern twist to the Porter’s dark jokes in a new RSC production directed by Wils Wilson

The key-jangling Porter in a detail from the poster by Ralph Steadman for the RSC’s 1982 production of Macbeth

Bard jokes: how music-hall greats inspired Stewart Lee to meddle with Macbeth