6. What do your parents/children (delete as applicable) think of your job?
They are proud. That’s my parents. It’s odd how even being a grown up you still seek and want that parental approval. My kids think it's cool. They come to Edinburgh for a week and see loads of the kids shows and some of them are better than the other shows for us grown ups!
7. What’s the worst thing about being a comedian?
Travelling. But even that doesn’t really take away from it being such a great thing. It’s very hard at times and I’m lucky in that I have a day job in my radio show so I can pay my bills without needing to get circuit gigs.
8. I think you are very good at what you do (that’s why I’m asking these questions). What do you think of you?
That I’m serving my apprentice. This will be my third Edinburgh. I take stand up very seriously and really try to push myself to dig deeper and be better. If there was a venn diagram of stand up and talking on the radio, there are some cros over areas and some areas where it's very different rules.
9. How much do you earn and how much would you like to earn?
Buddha looks after my money.
10. How important is luck in terms of career success – have you had lucky breaks?
Yes. Earned and also due to the random nature of chance and luck yes. Sometimes you look back and wonder was there a plan or path, but I get asked for advice from kids wanting to break into radio and I say the path you really really want to go down is so rarely the path you end up going down. No lucky break can to someone on a couch stuffing Wotsits into their face. Or did it? If it did I want to be that guy.
11. Alan Davies has said that comedians fall into two categories - golfers and self-harmers. The former just get on with life, the latter are tortured artists. Which are you – or do you think you fit into a third category?
Well. Most people say I’m pretty well adjusted but that's BS. What same person gets up at 4am 5 days a week, speaks and play songs for four hours and then decides he has MORE to say and needs a stage for an hour for that. No one in any area of life is right in the head. That's the human condition. It's trying to get out of your own way that's the hard lesson in life. Don’t be a dick is another good one.
