6. What do your parents/children (delete as applicable) think of your job?
My Dad is a retired air corps Flight Sergeant and my Mam is the Parish Secretary. Simply overjoyed. They even cry a little. Two rights can make a wrong!
7. What’s the worst thing about being a comedian?
The dry cleaning - I sweat right through these suits. I’m like Lee Evans without the material!
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?
I couldn’t bear not having an audience to overshare with, so I think I need to take your lead and hope others do too!
9. How much do you earn and how much would you like to earn?
Not enough to have my own flat. Enough to have my own flat. Can you tell I’m itching to flee the nest?
10. How important is luck in terms of career success – have you had lucky breaks?
It’s all luck. Life’s a lottery. While performing in a pantomime in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, I once walked in on Jedward changing. They had their trousers on. Just a few seconds earlier and they might not have. How lucky was that?
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 feel like the former, but I can’t golf - I’d like to, but I can’t. So I guess I’m a tortured golfer.
12. Who is your favourite person ever and why – not including family or friends or other comedians?
Maggie Smith. So many facial expressions, so many Kenneth Williams stories and apparently, so much time - she’s immortal!
13. Do you keep your drawers tidy and if not why not?
Mustn’t discuss my drawers in public! But if I can hint - those people who say ‘Everything has its place’ - I hate those people.
