Tell Us about:

Your latest stand up show that you are taking to Leicester Comedy festival:

Bed 32 is my first hour long solo show featuring a mix of stand-up, musical comedy and improv from me, a one-legged NHS doctor. It’s about the NHS and disability but its audience interactive improv sections could lead anywhere! All profits go to Bristol Children’s Hospital where I grew up myself.

Your favourite joke you have created:

Us younger doctors are told not to use slang, don’t say “physo” for physician or “obsto” for obstetrician. The stakes are a lot higher for us paediatricians…

Your favourite venue to perform at:

King Richard III where my show is in Leicester!

The joke that was the longest to write and why?

We left the children’s ward with a whole year to write a joke about me for the show:

‘What do you call Dr McKenzie fighting other amputees? Partial arts…’

Comedy hero:

Sean Lock 

Dream venue to play at:

The Comedy Store in London!

Describe the feeling you get when you walk on stage to do a show:

As I hop onto stage I’m always excited, especially to find out what the crowd will throw at us for the improv sections of the show!

The hardest joke to perform and why:

The jokes written by the children’s ward are hysterical and I find it hard not to laugh performing the material they’ve sent us for the show!

Essential items you always take on tour with you?

A modified stethoscope to plug into the speakers and make a song out if the crowd!

Describe your fans in three words:

Rowdy, Loud Hecklers

What we can look forward to from you this year:

After our sold out runs in Nottingham and Bristol we plan to do the show all over the country raising buckets of money for Bristol Children’s Hospital.

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