An occasional series asking comedians at this year's Laugh! Festival what makes them ticklish.
Ladies and gentlemen ... Jon Stubbs.
Name of show? Jon Stubbs in Aardvark Antibloke.
Being a comedian, is it the job you've always wanted or an escape from a proper one? I have always escaped from my proper jobs while there anyway. For example, my job as a caterer where I would often be found in the coolstore eating while writing jokes on the gateaus. Or my job painting houses. Regularly I'd write lines on the weatherboards and, at the end of the day, write them down then paint over them. I did work at a vet clinic and writing jokes on the animals was scorned upon, especially using sharp objects.
Your major point of difference from all the other acts at this year's Laugh! Festival? The solo sketch show of the festival which has a 120kg vegetarian running around like a cat on fire.
Your urge to get up on stage and make people laugh is more the result of (a) psychological imbalance or (b) towering confidence? Neither. I have a very pushy dog who beats me if I don't perform. He asks only for me to try my best, but my best, my best, I'm trying my best, the beatings are so long.
Who or what makes you laugh? People who try to follow trends but miss by two or three years. And Richard Prebble.
The funniest word in the English language is? Prebble - say it very quickly after too many drinks. Hours of fun.
Is comedy still the new rock 'n' roll? If not, what is? No, Morris Dancing. Their time in the sun has come.
What's the punchline to your favourite joke? "So I stabbed him." The sight gag.
Simpsons or South Park? Crapston Villas (for the cat).
Chaplin or Keaton? Keaton. Diane Keaton - something about those glasses that really aroused my sensibilities.
Ben Elton or Benny Hill? Benny Hinn, find this guy on Prime. Haven't laughed so much in years.
Shortland Street Or Coronation Street? Shortland Street. Bring back Lionel!
If there was an act other than your own at the Laugh! Festival you'd recommend, it would be? Irene Pink, Paul Ego and Brendhan Lovegrove.
Review your show in 25 words or less: It's amazing! So many lights, colours, levels, songs, costumes. What a sexy muffin this man is.
Now give it a censorship warning: No coarse language, nudity or Paul Holmes, but does have the odd innuendo.
Complete this sentence: please come to my show because I really need the money to: eat this week.
Laugh! Lines: Innuendoes from sexy muffin
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