THE Sunday National spoke with Scottish comedian Larry Dean on the 10 things that changed his life ahead of his upcoming Fringe Show Dodger –…
THE Sunday National spoke with Scottish comedian Larry Dean on the 10 things that changed his life ahead of his upcoming Fringe Show Dodger – tickets are availableI WAS sent a video tape years ago in the post and it was a video tape of The Mask. I think when I watched that movie, it made me adore Jim Carrey films and the daftness of it all.
I was already on a behaviour timetable and stuff like that which is a blast from the past. She took me aside and told me I was really good at drama and music so just make sure you behave in other classes, fail them all if you want, but get to next year and do the subjects that you want to do. My mum and dad’s side are daft with their sense of humour. Hanging out with my gran made me funny. Even in the past couple of years, hearing some of her lines – they were just so good.After she died, the nurses were saying it won’t be as funny around here because she always had such good putdowns for everybody.I used to do Elvis impersonations and make poor family members have to sit through all that they weren’t bothered with. It’s a thing that made me perform.
If I’m asked to describe a musician or their music, you can categorise it, but as a stand-up there’s more to it than just saying they’re a physical comedian or they do accent, or they’re Scottish. There’s probably a jealousy thing as well, he just looked amazing when doing what he did.If I watched myself back when I started, I would have thought all my shows were bad. I didn’t know how bad I was until my pal this year said I was the joke of this group of comedians for the first few years.
The problem with watching him is you learn exactly what the Scottish sense of humour is and you go to other places and you realise it’s not as universal, certainly not the accent. But having to go on completely unknown, to them not even knowing if you’ll be Scottish, definitely made me a better comic. I hope, anyway – either that or my standards are just lower.Some people don’t realise this, but some stand-ups have directors. It’s somebody who will work on your material and your performance with you and they give you advice. It’s the same way a director would work with an actor.
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