Tell us about your show. I’ve not been to Melbourne for four years, and the last time I came the show was a bit of an epic fifty-minute poem, and this year it’s not epic in any way. It’s just silly, it’s just lots of silly poems and a few songs thrown in, some stories, and some ridiculous one-liners.
How did you get into comedy? I went straight into it after being a student. I did the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards, which is our UK version of Raw, and I mainly did sketch comedy.
Tell us about your other comedy creation, Marcel Lucont. I remember I was doing a show about the history of swearing, and then I said at the end ‘Oh I’m doing this character show afterwards, come along if you fancy it’, and a lot of people did and I remember I could hear backstage someone saying ‘Oh god, it’s almost like he was a completely different person’. Well yeah, that’s what character comedy is.
How did it work collaborating with Mikis on the musical elements of your show? It’s like watching magic when he puts a track together for me, I’m entirely un-musical myself, it just boosts the poems and the full-on songs that I do in the show – a guy singing acapella at a comedy gig, now that’d be odd.
