The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …
Mat Ewins’s Edinburgh show in 2017 is hard to top. He is one of my closest friends in comedy and, as we started out together, I must qualify this by saying that, over the course of the last decade, he is also responsible for some of the worst standup I have ever seen.
The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen …
Anything from Big Train. The smug man who can’t open doors.
The funniest person I know …
My girlfriend has a sense of humour so filthy she makes me feel like Mary Whitehouse.
The funniest meal I’ve ever eaten …
Chin Chin, in Melbourne. On our night off from performing, a few of us went to an Asian fusion restaurant where we had, without question, the tastiest food I’ve ever eaten. John Kearns mentioned that he might buy the restaurant’s cookbook to try and make dishes at home, claiming: “If you can read, you can cook.” The idea of Kearns trying to make kingfish sashimi in his one-bed flat in Highgate …
The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had …
I shaved my head for a bet once. I’ve got a small head anyway, so I looked insane.
The funniest joke I’ve ever heard …
Norm Macdonald’s Cosby routine. “People say to me, they go: ‘The worst part about Cosby is that he was a hypocrite,’ and I say: ‘I don’t think that was the worst part.’”
