"Martin Lewis is - as they say in Mali [West Africa] - a 'griot.' A very valuable member of society - much respected and feared - who remembers everything"
- Sir Michael Palin

"There has never been anyone quite like Martin Lewis in British popular culture... One of its most interesting and irrepressible characters" - The British Comedy Guide

"If he were less self-aware, less British, he would write an incredible 'The Kid Stays in the Picture' -esque aria about the last half of the 20th century" - The Awl