Tom Davis

And you felt really, I think I missed the sort of camaraderie of being around and having a laugh.

And I remember literally all the only things I ever seemed to hear was faster.

You'd be scaling fish and someone would come in and then you'd take too much off or whatever and you just constantly felt you weren't doing anything well enough or fast enough.

It was a very strange thing of like almost changing your persona and who you are.

I think I was so terrified.

And this French, the chef who tracked this, Yannick, was very much like, you know, know your place kind of thing.

And actually sort of as a builder or a labourer, I was an awful labourer.

I was very lazy.

I was like, but I had a big character and I'd take a look at people.

So people would often keep me around.

I mean, to put it in perspective, yeah, I did my first Edinburgh.

I was still working on a building site.

And I went away for a month to do the Edinburgh Festival.

And I came to the foreman.

I said to him, look, I've got this thing where I can go away and do stand-up for a month.

If I give you half my wages, I'll take the other half.

And he was like, cool, yeah.

And I said, hopefully it'll be all right with me going.

And when I came back, he was like, actually, we were far better as a group.

You were sort of like the best of the building type, maybe.