S6 Ep 4 Jake Farrell

Um, yeah, so I start, I started comedy about, uh, 2014.

Um, late 2014, early 2015, and I'd kind of bottled it at uni.

I'd always wanted to do it, um, but I never kind of...

I got to the door of the comedy society, like, meetings a couple of times, then bottled out.

And then after uni, I taught abroad for, like, a year.

Yeah.

And then I was away and I was like, "Ah, I've gotta kind of give it a go." Um, came back with a view to, like, moving to London so I could, b- uh, like, only so I could do open mics really.

Um, but then there's a, I don't, I think other comedians I've talked to experienced this, like, the long kind of starting, uh, process of, 'cause you're obviously deeply shit for, um-

[laughs]

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many months.

[laughs] I'm still struggling with that now.

But, like, yeah, so I think I probably had a bit of on and off then right up until, like, like I say, 2015, where, where I actually started fully in earnest.

Um, yeah, and I just, like, I don't know.

I guess for me, uh, I was, like, about the generation where there was this, like, really good crop of stand-ups coming through, where it was kind of moving away from, uh, traditional stand-up, I suppose, into, like-

Yeah

... something a bit more interesting to, like, an 18 to 20-year-old.

So I remember when I was at uni, I went to see Tim Key in, uh, Leeds.

He'd just won the Perrier Award or whatever it was called then.

I went to see Bo Burnham when he must have been, like, not much older-

Yeah

... than me in a room of 200 people in, in Leeds.

And then people like Liam Williams and Simon Amstell, I suppose, kind of came after that, which was...

I know there'd obviously been an alternative comedy scene for a long time, but it was, like, people like that that really...

Josie Long, I remember going to watch in York as well, where it's like, it felt like there was loads of these amazing stand-ups who...