AL PITCHER Q & A

Q - What was the best show you have ever seen at the Edinburgh Festival?
A - Tommy Tiernan, last year, I had heard he was brilliant and he was, he's such an incredible story teller.

Q - What do you miss about the Edinburgh Festival once it's finished?
A - Smelly feet, I always have this habot of staying in the same flat with the smellient feet of the fest, ( Russell Howard) and once you get home it's not quite the same without that odour, I go through a 2 week cold turkey thing but you learn from it.

Q - How do you spend your time off in Edinburgh?
A - Try to chill out but end up playing football or frisbee with the youth of the meadows.

Q -Who or what has been the greatest influence on your career and why?
A - My wife who I married in June, she's swedish and they have an incredible sense of not giving a shit in Scandinavia. So mix that with a bit of Kiwi and bake for 4 years and then you have shiny happy people.

Q - Who would you swap lives with for a day?
A - Not George Best anyway...
Oh lives not livers..., sorry... the red button   on everyones BBC Interactive service on the remote control - that would be nice, everytime you were touched you would feel like you had changed that persons view on the world.

Q - Write your own epitaph:
A - No junk mail please.