Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?

Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,

including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. I'm Stuart Goldsmith.

Today I'm talking to Toby Haydoke who's a very well respected comic

he's been going 20 something years I think and is probably best known for

his obsessive fandom of Doctor Who. I mean obsessive and fandom don't even do it justice he's absolutely astonishing and and of course for his stewardship of the club in Manchester excess Malaki

he's a very fine comedian an excellent writer who's two or three different pieces of work of his

have really made me cry properly and I think he's a really lovely man to talk to as well.

He's a sort of quintessential bumbling English

gent, which he both plays up to and suddenly does little rug pulls with that character

on stage. So without further ado and with many thanks to the Manchester Comedy store for the

room to record this episode, this is Toby Haydoke.

Where do you see your place in the comedy firmament?

I don't know it's interesting because I was thinking about, you know, this is called the

comedians comedian and I was going, I'm not sure I am one, I don't know if I've ever been fashionable. I think it's because it's the

waters are mudded slightly because I've booked gigs and I still, the new stuff night here at the comedy store every couple of weeks that's not a paid gig but I still do the admin I book it so for people that come to me for work as it were even though it's not paid work and excess Malaki I mean that used to be a one-man band and I used to I used to book it so it's a slightly

odd one in that I wonder if anyone's ever truly honest with me because it still has that

sort of hangover of even though it's a very badly paid

gig there's still a you know a bestowing of employment that goes on I suppose I

I suppose I encounter a lot of people early in their career because Exis Malaki is a place that

If you're a new act, it's one of the first sort of pro gigs that you do because we have space for, there's always a 10 minutes for somebody that's never done it before, and I think I'm quite a genial sort of fellow.

So I guess I'm quite a genial sort of fellow so I guess I'm a sort of a benign presence early on in

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