'I actually like - if I may use the F word - fame.' FrankOnTheRadio on fan selfies, interviews in vans and being a pushy dad
"I hear a lot of people moaning about it. But I was ignored for about 30 years. I've got a lot of catching up to do.In the 20 minutes I'm in Skinner's company, he is stopped for at least 10 photos with fans, all of which he happily agrees to.But he is a fan of the snazzy poster advertising his now sold-out gig around the town.
"I find him utterly hilarious. I mean, just visual gags. He'll do a prop gag. He'll come in with a banana, pretending it's his hand and stuff. It's knockout."So how showbiz is Skinner himself? Has he bought a fleet of fast cars and designer clothes now he's rich and famous?"I just spent a few hundred quid on an Anglo-Saxon coin with Ethelred the Unready on it.
He says the Frank then and the Frank now are very different people, freely admitting he was much wilder in those days. It's his rise to TV fame from those pub gigs and dingy back rooms that seems to have given Skinner a taste for the"grittier" side of job of stand up.
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