People assume I know a lot more about Game of Thrones than I do know.

I've never read one of the books, I've never seen the show, but people just say, oh, the white walkers. I'm like, yeah, yeah, great. This week on Walking the Dog, Ray and I went for a stroll with a brilliant comedian, Alastair Beckett King in London's Regents Park. You've probably seen Alistair pop up on shows like Would I Lie to You, Mock the Week, and 8 out of 10 cats.

And he's also a hugely talented stand-up.

So I really recommend seeing him live.

And the good news is he's currently touring across the UK with his show King of Frums.

So do book your tickets now via Mick Perrin.com.

Ray and I had the loveliest chat with Alistair talking about his childhood growing up in the

North East.

Interestingly, he doesn't have a jolly accent.

And there is a reason for this, which we discussed.

We also talked about one of his earliest roles playing Joseph in the school nativity play.

There was a bit of a wardrobe malfunction, just FYI,

and how the little girl who played Mary ended up becoming his future life partner.

Alastair also told me about how he was originally set on becoming a serious filmmaker

and ended up going to film school and why that gave him a pretty useful skill set

when comedy started moving online and he was

able to make his own really original comedy videos, a lot of which have gone viral and they're

well worth checking out on his YouTube channel. He's also a celebrated children's author and his

Montgomery Bon Bon Bon Mystery novels have been described as Knives Out meets Poirot for kids.

His latest book, Scandal on the Stage, is out in July and it's available to pre-order now.

Ray and I had such a lovely walk with Alastair.

He's an incredibly smart, funny, fascinating person to chat to.

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