Welcome back to Waffle TV Swaps by West Beer. We are here in Grafires Kirkyard with Pooftops. Pooftops, you've just come out of your show, where? So how was it tonight? It was very nice, a lovely audience. It was very nice fun. It was good to get into the show again because I had a night off last night and I went to London and did a show there, but completely different show. So I'm back into words now. Can you tell us a little bit about words, the kind of comedy, I don't know, it's surrealist comedy, what, what can audience expect from it? I don't even know, I suppose it's surreal, I don't even analyse it. I don't know, one person said is it surrealist or is it absurdist? I didn't really know, I try not to think too much about it because otherwise I'd go mad and I wouldn't go to it. I just crave stupid things in my bedroom and then I don't analyse it, I just make the ideas up and think oh and it's not, you know, sometimes people think that with the comedians like me who are a bit unusual that we don't try to be unusual. I just do what is the most obvious, normal, it seems obvious and just the obvious things that I think are that a good idea and then it's for other people they say they're very unusual, absurd, surrealist. I just make silly things up really and then I'm not completely from it. So how did you get in standoff? I mean I read somewhere that you really wanted to meet Ella Fitzgerald and so you thought this was the career? Yes. But she died in the first year, she died within one month, me starting in comedy so I didn't meet her. But I didn't want to meet her now anyway. I wouldn't want to meet her because she's dead, but B, I wouldn't want to meet her because because I realise that people, people are just people, to be very boring properly, like Jessica she's a great thing out, she's probably very awkward with love, awkward small talk and then maybe just like maybe a tea party that just goes on a bit too long with constant sort of like excuses like everyone just saying I must pop the lounges like that because they don't know you want to be there really, it's just going on a bit too long and knowing that my taxes doesn't arrive for two hours and we're just sort of filling in. So I'm glad we didn't meet because it would have been a disaster. Have you heard many many celebrity dinner parties and experiences similar to that then? Yes, I have had evenings with celebrities and it's come to be quite quite trying. So you you studied maths and now you're you're a stand-up comedian. It seems like quite a an odd transition really. Well it wasn't even a transition really, I just was doing maths and then I like thought I'd have a good stomach comedy and I liked it and then I just became a comedian and that was it then and I just got about maths immediately. That's like another person did that. It was like just a little like a chat with my life. It's just a door to be closed on. I don't even think about it. I can't remember it really. I mean I always once doing a student show and I thought it was like an encompass on when I thought oh it's really nice then I thought oh I'd like to get a university that would be fun and then about five minutes later I remembered I'd gone to university but I've gone all about it. That's not someone else did on it. I'm just in show business now. I don't think about the old maths times. So you've come to the Friends previously a few times actually with different shows. Why don't you keep coming back to Edinburgh? What is so attractive about it? Well basically every year people like Aaron, Rotsmane and they say that it's going to transform my career. It doesn't. It never does but every year you never know. But they only want to come because it's a free trip for them to come to Edinburgh. But when we get there if it used to be that they would sort of drop it in later on in the run but now they just start out with it like on the even on the plane coming up here they said we tricked you poor. They said your career is going nowhere but we are getting somewhere. They're going to Edinburgh for a basically a holiday paid for by me. So basically this is well it's a big drain of my bank account and on my spiritual well-being and general happiness but I do enjoy I love the shows they're great fun. That's the only thing I enjoy. I enjoy the shows not working with these people. Pen pushers hangers on. So the shows and the local graveyard so it's poor recommenders location today. Slightly out of the ordinary for what we usually do in that. Well I thought it would be an appropriate place because it would remind staff members of the fragility of life and indeed the death of their careers. Is that going to get attacked? I'm going to make a stand this time. Okay. We're going to make a stand. Well on that note Paul. Yes. You can see words all the way until the 20th of August. Yeah 25th. 7.30pm over at Underbelly and Cal Gates and definitely go check it out in this amazing show so please please go and see it. Thank you so much for thank you very much thank you. Oh thank you.