E198: Paddy Raff: The Man Behind the Laughs

Bring back the high street, right? People out on the high street again and going to theatres and going to the stand-up shows.

So tell me now, how do you get all your content? How do you get all that? It's something called ADHD.

Have you heard of

it?

Are you

serious? No.

So I definitely have it.

But I haven't got the official diagnosis.

Because it was going to.

I'd done the tests online.

And it does say at the end of these tests, this isn't a clinical test and you have to go see.

But it kind of goes wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

You got it, mate.

But I didn't get the official diagnosis because somebody says your insurance goes up.

So I was like, we'll park that one for a wee bit.

I don't know, is that right? But yeah, well, maybe, I don't know.

It was enough to put me off.

But basically, yeah, like my mind has always gone a mile a minute.

Even from when I was a kid, I would go to bed at night and I would like have things that I want to think about in bed.

And like my wife was like, I go to bed and like as soon as my head hits the pillow, I'm sleeping.

Like, nope, I lie down and I know there's at least two hours before I'm getting anywhere near sleeping.

And I would just be like running things through in my head.

Like it was always comedy.

So we'd have watched lots of comedy on TV and before like YouTube or, you know, social media, going into school the next day, rather than showing your friend or sharing something, I would remember all the funny things that were on TV the night before.

So I'd be quoting The Simpsons, The Fast Show from the weekend, you know, there were like friends quotes and I would be the person that comes in and be like, oh, Paddy, what was the thing, what did Ross say whenever, and then I, you know, so this was just something I was doing because like that was my thing and I could do the voices and I could act it out and then, that kind of you know my mind has always been like that so in any jobs that i've ever had they've always had like a creative element to them but i've always had my mind on something else i've never been able to just settle so comedy is the kind of the perfect vehicle for it so that really does power the adhd kind of brain does power um my comedy anyway because i'm always writing notes down and thinking of wee characters and ideas and You know, it's just I never run out of ideas.