In the early days of your comedy career, you only have five minutes of jokes so we didn't have tamer ones we could swap in. Only five people stood behind the rope to watch, including an adult in a full Peppa Pig costume who heckled throughout. I performed five minutes to silence, before the next act got their microphone disconnected and the comedy cancelled after saying the C word.
It's about what it's like to go viral overnight, or even worse, going viral for dancing with your parents. I'm trying to work out who I want to be versus what other people want me to be, and asking why are both impossible.
Just repeatedly saying, 'I don't want to do it' and 'Why do I do this to myself?' until I go on. In full creative control.
Comedy seemed like the perfect combination of everything I liked: performing, writing things that made my friends laugh, getting full creative control over what I made, and all the while (hopefully) having people say they like you.
I submitted a sketch to a competition, and it didn't get picked so thought I'd make it myself to show they were wrong. Most of my greatest successes in life have come from taking rejection badly and trying it anyway.
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