Riding in front of a crowd ramps up the pressure

IT happened because I was racing dirt bikes and I’d done Enduro Extreme, where you’re racing bikes, but over massive obstacles.

All the guys that were really good at those races were trials riders, so I became a bit obsessed with trying to get as good as I could. Then I started doing local competitions, so the natural thing – and the way that I always do everything – was instead of going ‘Oh yeah this is fun’, I’ll go, ‘Right, what’s the hardest thing, the most extreme version of this that we can possibly do?’ So yeah I just went, ‘Stuff it, let’s give it a go’. Ross Noble just wants to have fun – whether it’s off-road biking or playing Igor in the musical Young Frankenstein, below with Lesley Joseph as Frau Blucher IT’S amazing. I am loving it. I think it’s one of those things where you just do it gig by gig, tour by tour, and it’s only when you start looking back that you go, ‘Oh blimey, that’s quite a thing’.

At the moment, I’m having a bit of a break from stand-up, because I am doing Young Frankenstein, the musical.

I am doing eight shows a week singing and dancing and working with Mel Brooks. So from that point of view it’s bizarre. I find myself going, ‘Wow, I’m working with one of the greatest living film-comedy guys in the world’. After that you’re off to Australia on tour and then back to the UK – do you like to keep busy? I JUST like having fun, with work as well. I just basically do stuff that I think is going to be a laugh and I had a right laugh making Ross Noble: Off Road, doing the event and then putting it together.

“And then, you know, obviously with my stand-up and then Young Frankenstein at the minute – it’s perfect.