| What was your first solo stand-up gig?
It was in Oxford, in a student cellar bar. I did not understand that comedians are supposed to prepare jokes, stories, or observations in advance. Hence, I ad-libbed, asking questions like, "What's your favorite fruit?" and improvising from the audience's answers. Amazingly, it went well and I vowed immediately to be a comedian until I got really old or died. What is your worst nightmare as a comic while performing on stage? Has it happened? My biggest fear is causing an audience member to die laughing. I once said silly things to a friend until she laughed so much that she stopped breathing for about thirty seconds. Luckily, she survived. If I were to make an audience member laugh his or herself to death, the ensuing legal action would ruin me. At what age did you realize you were funny? Why? Tell us the story. I realized I was funny when, at age 16, I got up in front of the class during math lessons and said silly poems I had invented to make everyone laugh. Prior to the age of 16, I never said anything remotely amusing. Who are your comic influences? What are your comedic influences? My biggest comic influence is my father. He was a very funny man. He is not dead, he's just not funny any more. The funniest thing he used to do was to make a pie and then drop it on the floor. "I've dropped the pie on the floor!" he would say. That's what he's like, because he doesn't wear oven gloves. He won't have them in the house. He is totally against oven gloves. What is the worst job you have ever had? Filling out this questionnaire. What are some of your favorite television shows? Movies? I never watch movies, or "films" as we call them in the United Kingdom of Queen Elizabeth, as I find it hard to follow the plots. All those different women and people, double crossing other people and men with hats. My favorite shows are home video shows, like "America's Funniest Home Videos," because I like seeing clumsy people fall over and people's weddings going wrong. What do you hope to gain by becoming the Last Comic Standing? Retribution. Most embarrassing moment? Have you recovered? I picked on a woman in the audience and said she was very loose. In the darkness, with the bright lights upon me, I could not see who the woman was. It turned out to be my Auntie Barbara. Which was very embarrassing, as she is in fact very loose. Give us your best "knock knock" joke. See below. What is the worst question you have ever been asked in an interview? Give us your best "knock knock" joke. |
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