6. What do your parents (delete as applicable) think of your job?
To Dad it's just like 'the building game' so he can relate, to Mum it's sometimes a bit much to take in when I point at all my friends on the telly.
7. What’s the worst thing about being a comedian?
Dying on your arse. That's why it's not for everyone. But many people work their fingers to the bone all day for sod all recompense either financially or spiritually so we can't really complain about anything.
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?
So many weak points that need work, but if I was young me (pre-comedy) I think I'd enjoy watching the act.
9. How much do you earn and how much would you like to earn?
Not enough, I'd like a house at some point, so multi-millionaire is the goal and then I can finally put the deposit down on the lock-up garage I'm renting to live in.
10. How important is luck in terms of career success – have you had lucky breaks?
The only luck I've had was meeting the right people randomly who have shared and developed my sense of humour. They could have simply not been there.
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?
I swing between the two, but for me it's fishing not golfing. I think I'm becoming more golfer as I get older, it's hard work tearing yourself apart all the time, and it doesn't ever help my act really, the best stuff comes from fun.
12. Who is your favourite person ever and why - not including family or friends or other comedians?
Tony Gash, he's a drama lecturer and wonderful man from the University of East Anglia, he has shaken the best out of many young hungover students in Norwich and once when I bumped into him in town we had a little pleasant chat which he finished with saying, "oh Pat, by the way I'm reading a book on small talk at the moment, how am I doing?"
13. Do you keep your drawers tidy and if not why not?
Nope, how hard is it really to find something if it's in a drawer, they're not that big, so just bung it in close it and get to the giiiiiig.
