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Harriet Gibsone

Colin Hoult: ‘The funniest heckle? You’re not funny because I’m not gay'

Colin Hoult as Anna Mann
Colin Hoult as Anna Mann. Photograph: Edward Moore

The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …

Greg Davies. His face, his stories, his sweet bod.

The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen …

Where Mr Bean meets the Queen. I once performed it with my mate in the school playground to raise money for Comic Relief and was relentlessly bullied for days. Learned a lot that lunchtime.

The funniest book I’ve ever read …

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome. It’s like a really funny standup set.

The funniest TV show I’ve ever seen …

Police Squad, if only for the opening title always being different to what the narrator says.

The funniest film I’ve ever seen …

What We Do in the Shadows – I actually felt quite poorly afterwards.

The funniest person I know …

My brother Steven. He once wiped his bum with a disinfectant wipe to see what would happen. “It really hurt. Do you want a go?” This was about a year ago.

The funniest heckle I’ve ever had …

“You’re not funny because I’m not gay.”

The funniest item of clothing I’ve ever owned …

A pair of boxers with a willy on dressed as a soldier saying: “Keep me covered I’m going in.”

The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had …

A blond mohican. I got it for a play when I was 17, then the director said he was joking when he suggested it.

Colin Hoult tours as Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists, to 27 May

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