Interview: Rarely Asked Questions – Ed Night: Page 2 of 2

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

6) I think they'd have a hard time believing it's a full job since I still live in their attic and beg dinners off them (my parents, not my children)

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

7) Having to bankrupt yourself to perform in Edinburgh every year. Also the fact that live comedy has a clear shelf life and is mad competitive since the jobs that make it a liveable career are few and far between and hotly contested for. Sorry, I meant "When your phone runs out of memory cos of all the babes that want your number after a gig"

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?

8) Three stars

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

9) Fuck all if it's December apparently. I would like a million quid please

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

10) It is important, and I've certainly had lucky breaks (such as not being stabbed with a box cutter when I was 17). But although there's heaps of unfair elements comedy is still the most meritocratic of the arts in my opinion.

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?

11) Probably the second one

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

12) Wilfried Zaha, because his presence, positivity and clear hard work in improving his end product can serve as an example to us all. Also, when he does stepovers it reminds me of me stepping over the haters

13. Do you keep your drawers tidy and if not why not? (please think long and hard about this question, it's to settle an argument with my girlfriend. The future of our relationship could depend on your response).

13) Yeah because I have nothing else to do in the day times. But then again I only have one or two drawers.

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