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" For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was. "
Doing
Talking
True
" I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger. "
Got
Things
School
" I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins. "
Side
You
Club
" I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman. "
Back
Up
Want
" I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle. "
Best
Conviction
Like
" I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up. "
Up
Keeps
Energy
" If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing. "
Up
Amazing
Look
" If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't. "
Situation
Funny
I Can
" I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old. "
People
Beard
Hope
" I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on. "
Think
Than
Sometimes
" I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. "
Love
Writing
Lonely
" I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough. "
Tracks
Wrong
Up
" I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me. "
Other
Opinions
Me
" I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it. "
Respect
Think
Honesty
" I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it. "
Jokes
Me
Doing
" I vote for whoever will annoy my dad. "
Dad
Annoy
Whoever
" I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing. "
Focus
Writing
Love
" I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly. "
Run
People
Me
" Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around. "
Love
Around
Just
" My dad doesn't hug me enough! "
Dad
Hug
Enough
" My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. "
Mother
Ending
Giving
" Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something. "
Want
Weird
You
" Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable. "
Doing
Things
Off
" Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it. "
Perception
School
People
" When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp. "
Flamboyant
Quite
Over
" When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous. "
Glasses
Ridiculous
Teeth
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