Stu Goldsmith will be raising the funnies at The Stables this weekend.
Sunday's (April 3) show in the snug of Stage 2 will replace the glumness that accompanies thoughts of a new working week, with smiles aplenty.
Can't be bad, can it?
An Hour promises the audience all spit no polish, all show no pony, as Goldsmith goes back to the source.
He has spent more than a decade turning frowns upside down, and when not cheer-bringing directly, he works on his own Comedian's Comedian podcast interviewing other funny folks: “I'm on a mission to find out how my fellow comedians write, improvise, or otherwise create their stuff,” he explains.
And people like his work – a whopping four million downloads (and counting) says so.
Ahead of his MK visit, Stu got busy with our questions...
When did you first think 'Comedy - that's the job for me'
Onstage at my first very gig. I came off thinking "at last I've found my thing!" Which after ten years as a not-bad street-performer, rubbish clown and outright fraudulent actor, came as quite a relief!
Which comedian first piqued your interest, and why?
Lenny Henry is the first comedian I remember listening to.
I played his 1988 album "Live and Unleashed" til the tape broke on a school exchange trip. He's not regarded as very cool now but I loved him.
He had so many ideas and such command of his audience. I can still recite his "cat-flaps" monologue, which now seems like a lesson in how to write about a given subject with mock outrage.
If you weren't working raising the smiles, what would you be working as?
I would love to have been a motorway rescue guy, like the AA but freelance.
If I knew the first thing about engines, I'd love to be up and down the country rescuing people while gently patronising them.
What's the best heckle you've ever had?
There's a true story in this show about being heckled by a lady with Tourette's!
I tried to roll with it as best I could (you can't do put-downs to someone who's medically-approved!) and gradually realised that when she was laughing hard enough she didn't tic.
From that point on I became like a court jester desperately capering for his life before an angry king...
Tell us about your worst gig so far
...and the one which still send shivers for all the right reasons?
The worst in my life was at a commercial comedy club in Leeds that ran out of Christmas dinners and decided to placate a corporate group of 150 people with free wine, for three hours before show time.
"Carnage" doesn't cover it...
The best happened literally last night. My baby boy was born in the morning (28th Jan) and my wife had been kept in hospital and they'd sent me home.
Thirty-eight hours without sleep, and I wandered home via my local comedy club to say 'Hi' to one of his new godparents.
The headliner hadn't shown up so the management desperately asked if I'd go on, and I improvised for 20 minutes about the birth.
One of the best gigs, and in fact experiences in general, of my life!
Are there any subjects which are off limits?
I will not talk about Instagram. I don't understand it.
We've got to finish with a joke, so over to you - but keep it family friendly...anyone could read this!
My granny's called Vera. That's not her name; we just call her that because she can't walk in a straight line.
To book tickets for The Stables date visit www.stables.org
And check in with Stu here: http://www.comedianscomedian.com/
