--- description: A comedian who interrupted a performance by Kanye West Saturday night says he did it for Taylor Swift. title: Comic Dedicates Kanye West Stage Invasion to Taylor Swift image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Comic Dedicates Kanye West Stage Invasion to Taylor Swift  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Jun 28, 2015 4:31 PM CUT  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Jun 28, 2015 4:31 PM CUT A comedian who [interrupted a performance](http://time.com/3939146/kanye-west-glastonbury-stage-invasion/ "undefined") by Kanye West Saturday night says he did it for Taylor Swift. Simon Brodkin, a British comedian who goes by the name Lee Nelson, ran onto the stage during a performance of the song ‘Black Skinhead’ at the Glastonbury music festival in the United Kingdom. The comedian was quickly escorted away while West waited to continue his performance. On Twitter, the comedian said he dedicated the stunt to Swift who was famously interrupted by West during an acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards. > [](https://twitter.com/RealLeeNelson/status/615105687681691648) Brodkin has a history of similar stunts and once snuck a photo with the English national soccer team during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The interruption apparently didn’t get to West, who ended his 90-minute performance declaring with characteristic understatement that he is “the greatest living rock star on the planet.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3939251/kanye-west-taylor-swift-concert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3939251/kanye-west-taylor-swift-concert/"},"headline":"Comic Dedicates Kanye West Stage Invasion to Taylor Swift","datePublished":"2015-06-28T16:31:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:33.606Z","description":"Simon Brodkin ran on stage during Kanye's set at the Glastonbury festival","url":"https://time.com/3939251/kanye-west-taylor-swift-concert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3939251/kanye-west-taylor-swift-concert/","name":"Comic Dedicates Kanye West Stage Invasion to Taylor Swift"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Kanye West on Why He's Not in a Competition With Anyone","description":"The artist describes the nature of his influence in an exclusive video interview with TIME","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/1U0iGYZB/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-16T01:23:28.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1U0iGYZB.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3939251/kanye-west-taylor-swift-concert/","duration":"PT2M7S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3939251/kanye-west-taylor-swift-concert/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```