This is an hour of storytelling and stand-up about writing the eulogy for my father’s funeral and how I reconciled the identity of my father, my hero, with my own. My 5”3 father had a mantra: faint heart never f*cked a pig. Consequently, he did everything he ever wanted: he conjured millions of pounds from nothing, taught himself a load of institutional cultural capital and bull-shitted it enough to marry my mother. He built so much: several houses off one water-pipe (bad), the house I grew up in (good) and a 500 seat opera house with mock Palladian facade in the garden (true). He was short and neat, gnomic and witty. He never did anything he didn't want to and ever since I can remember existing, I've wanted to be him. Four years ago, and many years after we started noticing him forgetting words and then people, he was diagnosed with vascular dementia. At Easter this year, he died and now I’m left trying to live up to his mantra without taking it literally. Unlike my dad, I’ve built nothing physical: I’m a comedian, an English teacher in a local comprehensive and a former teenage champion of Ancient Greek reading competitions. But I’ve collected a motherload of funny stories about everyone I know and every important thing that’s ever happened to me. This show answers the question: in the shadow of a short king, how can you be seen?‘Fearless on stage and energetic’ A Rich Comic Life‘out-of-place posho in the same vein as someone like Miles Jupp’ Steve Bennett, ChortleFeatured at club nights including Jericho Comedy, Mates Rates, Jesters, ACMS, Mirth Control, Funhouse, Full Frontal, Bearcat, Out of Bounds, Proper Cracking, Alternative Book Club, Laugh Train Home, Stand-Up Literature and Outside the Box.Finalist, Laughing Horse New Act of the Year 2018Semi-finalist, Leicester Square Theatre New Act of the Year 2018Semi-finalist, Get Up Stand Up 2018People's Choice, Chortle Student Comedy Award 2018Winner, JACT Classical Greek Reading, 1999Runner-up, Best Debut Show, 2025 Den of Laughs Awards
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