Jamali Maddix: I cried before my first stand-up gig

(Well, he was only five)

comedy Jamali Maddix has admitted crying before his first stand-up gig – but he was only five years old.

But he says the performance went well, even though he didn’t deserve such a good reception.

Speaking on the Dish from Waitrose podcast, he recalled. ‘I was doing a talent show… and you know when kids don't want to go on stage when they're young and they start crying? Then the teachers went, "Just go on stage." And I went out on stage and it was a bad set I should have got booed.

‘I flipped up my collars and I was like, "I'm Harry Hill." I wish comedy was that easy now!

‘I just came on and did that and everyone [cheered]. People went mental for that.’

Even though he’s now made a successful career from comedy – including being part of the Comedy Central series Am I the A**hole with Jimmy Carr and GK Barry – Maddix admit not everyone’s a fan.

‘My mum don't like my comedy now,’ he told hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett. ‘Genuinely, she watches it and she goes, "People pay for this?"’

Bu t he added: ‘We don't want comedy that your mum goes, "That's great!", you know what I mean? My mum's always saying, "Why don't you talk about your granddad? He's fun.’" But people- they don’t want to hear about that.’

Widening the conversation away from comedy Maddix also admitted to a penchant for Car Boot sales, saying: ‘I try and go most weekends…I love buying tat."

‘I've got all types of shit… I bought a slot machine, a mini slot machine, I bought that. I bought a plate that had HMP on it from prison. I bought a massive portrait of King Haile Selassie. I love it all, man. It's all in my walls and stuff. And bought this Victorian vintage air rifle.’

And as the podcast is based around food, the comedian confessed to a sweet tooth, saying: ‘I used to eat gâteaux for breakfast.

‘Then the doctor was like, "bruv, you gotta shut that shit down." But real talk, it was bad ‘cause I got bare diabetes in my family. Yeah, I got like proper diabetes, like.’

Maddix also admits to a major etiquette breach: eating hot food on the train,

He said: ‘It’s 2000 and something bruv. We’ve got stuff to do. You trying to hit me with 1960s etiquette? don't care. You know what I pay my taxes, bruv, I'm eating on the train. Yeah, I'll eat on the train, I don't care. Just whacking a full jalfrezi…’

And here is is talking about falling into the cult of air fryers, his mum’s twist on spaghetti bolognaise and eating an alligator cheesecake: