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The standup on being a vibe killer, studying Richard Pryor and why comedy isn’t for good-looking people
Who is your comedy hero?
I grew up idolising a lot of standups: Chris Rock, Maria Bamford, Bridget Christie. I followed Ross Noble around (that sounds creepier than I intended) and watched him do a lot of shows in the early 2000s. At university, instead of doing my degree, there was a three-month period where I did an intensive Richard Pryor study. Through illegal downloading, I got all of his comedy albums and I would listen to each in chronological order and then build up to Live in Concert. I would say the intense focus I devoted to Pryor’s comedy came really at the expense of my degree.
And your non-comedy hero?
I’m unsettlingly obsessed with Bob Dylan and André 3000 from Outkast.
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