Joe Pasquale admits stand-up comedy scares him even after 40 years
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omedian and horror creator Joe Pasquale has mentioned performing a stand-up routine in entrance of an anticipating viewers terrifies him, however he does it as a result of “I like being scared”.
The 61-year-old is kicking off his comedy tour The New Normal – 40 Years Of Cack on July 28 after 4 a long time performing stand-up, weeks after his third assortment of horror tales is about to be printed.
Of Mice And Wolfmen, a group of a dozen horror tales, follows on from his first two horror books Deadknobs And Doomsticks quantity one and two, and can be printed on June 16.
As a life-long fan of horror, Pasquale advised the PA news company: “I like being scared and doing stand up scares me, I think that’s part of it.”
He continued: “When I was 13, I got ran over and it was quite a bad break, I was off school for the best part of a year.
“The plastering was almost full body and I had the next six months sleeping on the settee downstairs, couldn’t climb stairs, couldn’t use a toilet, had to use a bedpan, that was fun as a 13-year-old.
“In those days there was only three channels…it would invariably have horror films on every night and I got obsessed. My mum also used to collect these porcelain antique dolls…She must have had about 50 of them, all around the living room.
“You couldn’t go anywhere in the house without a doll looking at you and they had these spooky, really creepy, glass eyes. Every night I would look at these dolls and I swear their eyes would move…and then I became obsessed.”
“That (time) was the birth of my horror love,” he advised PA.
The foreword to his newest horror e-book has been written by The Chase presenter, actor and singer Bradley Walsh.
Pasquale mentioned: “Brad and I, we’ve known each other for 40 years, so we started out doing talent shows together and I always send him my stories and he’s obsessed by how my brain works because his brain doesn’t work like that.”
In 2004, Pasquale charmed viewers on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! together with his trademark high-pitched voice and his profession acquired a bounce after, starring in ITV comedy particular An Audience With Joe Pasquale in 2005.
Four a long time after he first started calling bingo at a vacation camp as a result of he didn’t need to do a “proper job”, Pasquale is returning to the stage for his stand-up tour.
Pasquale mentioned his comedy is like “watching a nine-year-old on stage, it’s very silly, very stupid”.
He mentioned: “There’s so many bad things going on in the world and I know a lot of comics draw their material from the state of the world but I think for me personally, if I want to go and watch some comedy, I don’t want to be reminded of all the bad things in life, I want to go and forget about it for an hour.
“I actually think my job is to make people free of concern for the amount of time that they’re watching the show.
“When I’m doing the show, I’m free of concern completely. The only concern I have is to make those people laugh…that’s an escapism for me, as much as it is for the audience.”
He added: “They always say laughter is the best medicine, but I think it’s true.”
Joe Pasquale’s e-book of horror quick tales Of Mice And Wolfmen and tickets for his stand-up tour The New Normal – 40 Years Of Cack are on sale now.