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LOCAL LAUGHS ROSS LESLIE THE FIFE-BASED STAND-UP HAS A GO AT OUR Q&A

Do you have any pre- show rituals? Nothing insane, mainly just making sure I’m standing up for the half hour or so beforehand. I think it’s because once I was sitting in a seat backstage until my name was called and I went on to have a shocker. I immediately blamed it on the fact I was sitting down.

How do you handle hecklers? Chokeholds are unfortunately illegal, which is a real shame. I don’t have a particular way of dealing with them, apart from shushing them, which is simple and effective sometimes. I suppose I should have answered this ‘well, people are too busy pissing themselves laughing at my top-class material to be heckling’, but that would be lame. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received from another comedian? Gary Little told me to put

the microphone on my chin. Something so simple made a massive difference: people actually hearing me. You’re curating your own ‘legends of comedy’ line-up. Tell us the bill’s top three acts As an advocate of live comedy, I would have to dismiss my favourites who I haven’t seen live (Burr, CK, Jefferies, Oswalt etc) and pick a line-up from the circuit and go for Tom Stade, Mark Nelson and Susie McCabe. We probably need a compere for that so we should get in Scott Gibson. I should be involved as well, so I put myself down to do the door and the lights and that.

Ross Leslie is at Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Sat 1 & Sun 2 Apr; The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 27–Sun 30 Apr; The Stand, Glasgow, Sun 14, Wed 17 May. See more of this q&a at list.co.uk/ comedy.

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