Interview: Rarely Asked Questions – Sam Simmons: Page 2 of 2

6. What do your parents/children (delete as applicable) think of your job?

No go zone.

7. What’s the worst thing about being a comedian?

The instability of it all, I’m watching non comedy friends with all that security and babies and wot not and I think now, approaching 40 if I made the best possible choice. 

I love my work, but I live out of a bag and I think that sometimes my wife doesn’t like ME.

I don’t like me.

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?

Thankyou.

I think I can be better, I’m not in control of my comedy powers just yet and I think this is exciting.

I’m still learning, I’m still green, but maybe we always are.

9. How much do you earn and how much would you like to earn?

Enough, well enough anyway to pay the extortionist Airbnb fees to stay in London for 3 month at a time.

10. How important is luck in terms of career success – have you had lucky breaks?

I’m not sure, I work hard and I don’t really watch a lot of other peers comedy work because I’m a sponge, I absorb. 

But I am lucky that I stand out, I think if I was a lot like the other late 30s white guys telling you jokes I would just fade into the background.

I’ve created my own luck by not sticking to the traditional path I guess.

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?

Definitely a tortured Artist, but not a very good one, I’m the Dulux paint colour sample of the comedy world.

12. Who is your favourite person ever and why – not including family or friends or other comedians?

Any animal, I spend more time getting cats and dogs to like me than I do real people.

13. Do you keep your drawers tidy and if not why not? (This is just to settle an argument with my wife).

I’m efficient, you have to be when you live out of a bag, that being said when I do have a home again, and I’m spreading my shit everywhere.

Wallow in my filth sir.

 

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