He said one Leeds gig is 'burnt into my memory' after the set caught on fire
"I had pyrotechnics at one of my shows and one of them went off wrong and the set caught on fire”, he said. “I didn't know what was going on - I thought it was the dry ice machine kicking out a little bit too much. I couldn't see any of the audience because the smoke was filling up. The next thing I knew, my tour manager was appearing behind me with a fire extinguisher.
“Because it's a comedy show, our audience was laughing because they thought it was part of the show. I could have genuinely perished in the flames. It was one of those gigs which, pardon the pun, is burnt into my memory. I nearly destroyed the nicest venue in the country. There's no pyrotechnics this year.”
His latest tour, titled Settle Down, is his first since 2019. The world has changed significantly since then and the title of the show represents Whitehall’s “sometimes quite reluctant attempts to start adulting”. He said: “A lot of life has happened in the four years since I last did stand-up. I've met my life partner, moved into a house, got a mortgage and got a dog - I've grown up a fair amount. This show is about that process and my sometimes quite reluctant attempts to start adulting. I've been in a perennial state of arrested development for too long now. This is about me trying to drag myself in the direction of a grown-up.
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