Or a list of impressive things I can say I've done
when the Small Talk dries up.
Motion Designer
My current gig, I work for BBC News making it look pretty.
Standup Comedy
The Biggie, for eight years I was a standup comic, my entire contribution to the ouvre is now relegated to this page
Edinburgh Festival
I did six shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, at some point I'll give them the online space they really probably don't deserve. But no one else is going to do it.
Graphic Design
I used to deisgn my own posters and some other peoples and earn some money on the side. This was before I realised things could move.
Skyfall
Whilst inbetween careers I signed up to be an extra, it was a bit embarrassing and I got two jobs out of it, one was to be in the background of a dating advert filmed at the V&A and the other was to be in Skyfall. So I spent a few days knocking around on set being all bewildered. One the last day I got put in a really visible chair in the scene where Q gets hacked. Some extras spend lives waiting for gig that sweet. I retired straight after.
Animation
Back when Flash was a thing I did a bunch of animations and videos for bands. Highlight was a video for the Wave Pictures that the band liked but management didn't and got axed.
Writing
I got an MA in Creative Writing and have been (like most people my age) trying to write a novel.
Radio
I used to do a lot of radio stuff and almost got the set - I was definitely on BBC Radios 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6music, but never 1.
Kevin McCloud
Talking of Radio 4, I had my own story on there called Dad Designs, in which I stated how I wished Kevin McCloud was my dad. By a twist of fate and he having gone to uni with the head of BBC comedy he agreed to be in it. Weird
Barack Obama
He follows me on twitter, can't remember why.
Popstar
I once recorded a spoken word story type voiceover for a song, that song was played on 6Music, so I'm a kind of pop star, no?