Totally in the Gay Times!
// July 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // Photos
Amazing – I’m in the Gay Times. So excited. It’s part of their gays with talent feature I’m opposite a very flexible boy with his foot in his ear obviously I did this pose but they decided, in their wisdom, to go with ‘Drag Queen Lip’!
Very happy and I must say my skin is radiant – the 1hr fast before the shoot did the trick.
They printed a little interview which is an edit of a longer one I’ll post here.
I’m really pleased with how it turned out and cant thank Matthew Miles enough for making me look quite nice.
Here’s the full chat…
How has your talent for comedy developed… when did you start, how hard have you worked at it and what help have you had?
I’ve always been a slight attention seeker and I soon discovered that making people laugh was a great way to steal focus! When I moved from Solihull to Leicester for University and after being in Leicester for a year I broke up with my then partner and I found that I was without many people to talk to so (after about a week of mopeing and marshmallows) I got involved with a local comedy Improvisation group and through that became part of the Leicester Comedy Festival. Then, through the awesome fesival people I joined a Stand Up Comedy course in 2007 and caught the bug! Now I’ve gigged all over the country in clubs, at music festivals, in the dark, for children and even in an Old Peoples’ home.
Has anyone in particular inspired you, or been an example for you to look up to?
There are so many amazing comedians that I look up to and a list would be boring, but, in terms of being a gay man in comedy Graham Norton is an inspiration, people forget how amazing and controversial ‘SO Graham Norton’ was now that he’s hunting for west end divas!
What is it that keeps you coming back to stand-up, to do more and progress?
When you get a laugh it’s amazing, making a whole room giggle makes me feel increadible and the more gigs I do the better I get and the better I get the more people I get to perform in front of it’s sort of an addiction, not a bad one though, I hope!
What’s been your best or most satisfying moment with stand-up so far?
Last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I was in The Lunchtime Club with four other amazing young stand ups and got to spend a month geeking about comedy, seeing my idols and making people laugh (with varying degrees of sucess) every day for a month.
Where do you hope to be displaying your talents in the next few years?
Anywhere I can, all across the world if they’ll have me! (actual sad dream is to commentate Eurovision!)
It’s summer, the guys are in short shorts and passions are running high – what does it take for a man to have ‘talent’ in your eye?
Passion for the thing they enjoy. I love boys who are excited about what they do and who can get giddy about it the same way I do about comedy… they also have to laugh at all of my jokes,
Phew!
I’m also thankful that they didn’t pan down – I am wearing the shortest shorts ever.
Dx
