I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started doing stand-up in college.
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.
Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.