Chris McCausland, a renowned comedian and Strictly Come Dancing contestant, shares his remarkable journey from a web designer to a successful stand-up artist. Despite losing his eyesight at a young age due to retinitis pigmentosa, Chris persevered and found his true calling in comedy.
He's famous for being a comedian, but prior to finding stardom Chris McCausland had a very different career. The Strictly Come Dancing star switched his job after his eyesight began to fail and eventually he found himself trying out stand-up comedy.
He told the Liverpool Echo: “When I finished uni I focused on designing websites, but then my eyesight started deteriorating and I had enough. I knocked it on the head and tried to find something else to do. I was unemployed for maybe a year and a half and in the end I got a job doing business sales. It was really, really boring stuff - just filling the time until I figured out what I properly wanted to do.
Speaking about his first ever gig, he said: “I don’t think it could have been scarier. I didn’t eat a thing all day and just paced around my flat. I’d never been a public speaker, I have no drama experience or anything. It was in this venue in Balham, south London. I was quite lucky because it went well - in fact the first ten or so gigs I did went well."
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