Tell us about:

Your latest stand up show:

It’s a chaotic exploration of relationships from a comedian who has only just found out who he actually is.

Your favourite joke you have created: 

I’m smart, I know lots of words, words like superfluous, mellifluous and superfluous.

Your favourite venue to perform at:

Alma Tavern in Bristol is so much fun on one end of the scale, Monkey Barrel always a classic but opening for Ed Gamble at De Montfort Hall in Leicester was a lot of fun.

The joke that was the longest to write and why?

In my comedy special Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going? the whole end routine is about grief as permanence and how very few things are actually permanent. That’s a weighty topic but I managed to do it in a routine about a porn DVD and I’m very proud of that.

Comedy hero:

Tig Notaro

Dream venue to play at:

I’ve got a visa to work in the USA now so there’s a bunch of them there that I’d love to play. First up would love to do my tour show at Union Hall in Brooklyn, then get to Zanies in Nashville.

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

Zero feeling. I’m not in direct contact with how I feel about things so it’s not nerves, it’s not excitement, it’s just nothing. I guess when jokes start to go well or I’m in a good rhythm that is fun, it feels good to be good and to feel connected to a room of people.

The hardest joke to perform and why:

There’s a routine about why people fancy me and why it will continue to happen that I love doing but by god I have to judge it right and get the energy on it right otherwise it can just land in an odd way. For good reason, but I think it’s funny to do a routine that is so stupidly and pathetically boastful and see how that goes down.

Essential items you always take on tour with you?

A gilet and the set of cards I had illustrated by Jon Turner that are a summation of the show and represent loads of the routines and themes discussed. They’re beautiful!

Describe your fans in three words:

Neurodivergent and non-binary

What we can look forward to from you this year:

This year is a new show, a stand up comedy/theatre hybrid called Stuart Laws is Stuck and it’s about the time I went through a break up and became the caretaker of an island of puffins and one went missing so I had to solve the mystery. You know, a bit more mainstream than I normally do.

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