Don’t expect to see Trevor Noah at screenings of his new ‘The Daywalker’ live comedy film, currently on circuit. During our conversation, one of South Africa’s funniest men reveals why he doesn’t like watching his own performances, how he beats Loyiso Gola at the game ‘Fifa 10’, why hanging with the paparazzi is never fun, the joys of being heckled by a six-year-old, and getting obsessed with twitter.
Mario Joyner enjoys his freedom.
“I do only what I want to do and nothing that I don’t. I just work out, eat, sleep, date, tell jokes. That’s all I do really,” the charming – and unsurprisingly very chilled out – comedian tells me in the lounge of a swanky seafront hotel.
“I have such a relaxed life, simply because I have no-one to answer to. I’m 47-years-old, I have no kids, I have no wife, it’s just me. I can go when I want. I can wake up when I want, I have no need for alarm clocks, I have no real job – this is no real job,” he says, somewhat modestly – on 11 November he’ll have been doing standup comedy for 25 years.
“Political correctness is a crock of shit,” says comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson.
Not exactly surprising words from the Aussie famous for less-than-PC songs like ‘Dilligaf’ (Do I Look Like I Give A F***) and ‘Do You F*** On First Dates?’
“What it does is it really stops people from using common sense,” he continues, as if we’re chatting over a round of beers in the local pub. “In my mind, common sense isn’t all that common anymore and political correctness itself is a contradiction in terms: if it’s political there’s a real good chance it isn’t f***ing correct,” he deadpans.
For years, Carl Barron led a double life: roof tiler by day, comedian by night. But as the comedy gigs increased, he downed his tools and began joking full time.
We speak to the Australian funnyman about burps, sleep, undressing on stage, drool, and a “bunch of weird shit”.
Nils van der Linden