Comedian

I've been recognised in garages. I'll be paying for my petrol, and I'll see this guy looking at me, thinking, 'Is it him?' Then he'll be looking at my car: 'No, he couldn't be driving that car.' I've actually had two people say to me:,'Hello Dominic, I thought you might have a better car than that, mate!'

No one likes a pushy parent, and, 'pride' being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel's new 'Spider-Man.'

How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs.

I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire.

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

It's not cool to be star-struck.

I might get a break again, and I might get back on telly. If I don't, I'll just keep doing stand-up and doing the best gigs I can.

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed.

I got heckled by a woman, and my riposte fixed upon her unfortunate hair texture, only for her to remove her wig and reveal to the room the horrors of chemotherapy.

Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.

Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away; you've got journalists in.

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

Seeing a full room of punters queuing for my show is always heartening.

The garden is something I always try to get into, but it always beats me.

I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian.

All kids should vote - it gives them the opportunity to whinge afterwards because you can't complain if you haven't voted.

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage.

Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned.