If only the financial services sector was more like Stewart Lee

If only the financial services sector was more like Stewart Lee

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AXA Wealth International head of proposition Simon Willoughby on his love of stand-up comic Stewart Lee and how he wishes financial services could be more like him.

Some of you may recall my chance meeting with the comedian Jimmy Carr last year, and due to my inability to retain sufficient composure when trying to engage him in conversation, how I became the unfortunate victim of his cutting wit. Well, you'll be pleased to know that I recently managed to strike-up a brief and vaguely coherent discussion with my all time favourite comedian after a show in Leicester Square. He even signed my DVD. Stewart Lee (pictured), whose third Comedy Vehicle series has just finished on BBC2, tends to polarise opinions. If you've come across him, you're like...

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