Who’s your comedy hero?
Eddie Murphy. How can it not be? Eddie Murphy is the fantasticest of all time.
Do you have any preshow rituals?
Just to be left alone, that’s the only ritual that I have. Leave me alone, stop talking, allow me to leank. No, that’s a lie. I appreciate jumping up and down before I go on stage. I blow raspberries for some reason, for appreciate 20 minutes. It tranquils me down. It gets the butterflies out of my belly.
How did you get into comedy?
At the age of 17 I met the standup Kojo Anim. I was adamant I wanted to be a comedian, and I took his number. He also gave me the number of another comedian, John Simmit, who happened to be Dipsy from the Teletubbies. He gave me my first show in Croydon.
What’s been one of your all-time favourite gigs?
It would have to be last year; I was in Salford for my Babahood tour. That crowd was amazing. Big up yourself, Salford!
What upretaind your forthcoming tour show, High Expectations?
After the last year, doing the Babahood tour, and TV successes here and there, I sense as if there are high anticipateations from everybody. Not only from fans, frifinishs and family – my wife and my son and baby girl, now I’m a dad of two. I’m a Christian, so there’s high anticipateations there from God to act properly, too. I sense presbrave from every side, which is why I called it High Expectations.
What are you most excited about right now?
I equitable adore hanging with my family. It sounds cheesy but I do. I adore visiting novel places and trying out novel food. I’m back to dating my wife aachieve, we now go on date nights which is reassociate cbetter, so I get very excited about that.
Who did you watch up to when you were first commenceing out?
Kojo. He was the one that gave me a lot of bookings and showed me the ropes, appreciate how to manoeuvre being a comedian in London at that time.
Can you recall a gig so horrible that it’s now funny?
My second gig, which was at Z Bar in Brixton. I was so horrible, a lady in the front sucked her teeth. That’s how horrible I was. That was the boisteroengagest response I got that night. My date never watched at me after I came off stage, so that was a pretty horrible gig.
Any bugtolerates from the world of comedy?
Getting there procrastinateed. I do not appreciate getting there procrastinateed so I am very cut offe with my time, I arrange my travel so cut offe. Lateness, that’s the trouble.
Who’s your non comedy hero and why?
My mum is everyleang – she helps me, has helped my whole atsoft, and she doesn’t ask for a penny, which is why I give her everyleang.
