Henry Paker

on ab probably on ab oh yeah five minutes it could have been yeah i think so that was a big deal when did you start stand up henry i think well 2005 2008 that was yeah okay i've done a thing which um which happens in you know which happens with the stand-up which is i i started to create a deliberate ambiguity about when i started

I'd say things like it was around 2007.

Yeah, because it's like you've been doing it for 18 years and you're still doing a laughing horse gig.

And you're middling.

You're not even opening or closing it.

yeah so yeah that's that's another one but but the classic the classic and this still makes my blood boil to this day yeah it's people actually one of you both of you might be guilty of this it's people that do their their debut edinburgh hour 10 years into their actual comedy career do you know what i mean because then they're still eligible for best newcomer i was four years were you four years four yeah that's okay i think that's perfect is it

Five years.

Five years.

That's respectable.

Were the jury sniffing around?

Very much, very much.

It's hard to recover from that, isn't it?

I'll tell you some things I remember about the Edinburgh Beyond Night.

One is, when I got that gig booked in, obviously I thought, I mean, I'm basically going to be living in Miami for the rest of my life.

i think i might know 1500 i think it was it might have been yeah i can't remember but at the time i thought to be honest it's touch and go with the rest and touch with my own parents after this yeah honestly that's how i was thinking it's a new world i'm entering a new world yeah i'm stepping over the threshold and you get a million pounds don't you for going on telly that's what you think that's why i think you assume that thank you um but the other thing i remember that night is um

No, but I think that is true in TV, probably, isn't it?

Yeah.

No, exactly.

You don't know.

But there are, yeah, I was talking recently about that.