Comedians are always complaining about their unhealthy diets when on the road. Not George Egg though. Over the years Egg has developed a way of using hotel room accessories to conjure up healthy and, most importantly, tasty meals. You can do wonders with an iron, you can improvise with a kettle and you’d be amazed at what the appropriately-named Egg can do with…well, if I told you it would spoilt the surprise. In Anarchist Cook he tells jokes and simultaneously puts together a three-course meal. Play your cards right and sit at the front you might even get a free taste. George Egg is at the Soho Theatre tonight, March 16. Tickets here.
1. What is the last thing you do before you go onstage (apart from
check your flies, check for spinach between teeth and check your
knickers aren't sticking out of your skirt)?
Answering this with reference to my show ('George Egg: Anarchist Cook'), I check the ingredients bags and make sure everything I need is in them. I’ve been halfway through one of the routines/recipes and suddenly realised I’ve no butter before. Which was disastrous. I mean, can you imagine that?! It doesn’t bear thinking about.
2. What irritates you?
3. What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done?
When I was 9 I was walking home from school and I had an overwhelming urge to lie down in the road. No idea why. It wasn’t a ridiculously busy road but even so cars often sped down it. Anyway, I did it, lay there for 10 seconds or so, and then thought ‘ok, Ive done that now’ and got up. As I walked to the other side a car drew up and everyone in it was staring at me. I suppose they thought ‘why was that boy lying in the road’. The passenger door opened and my mum got out having got a lift back from work. What an unfortunate coincidence. She was pretty upset/angry/worried/embarrassed.
4. What is the most stupid thing you have ever done?
5. What has surprised you the most during your career in comedy?
