1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Mysterious, mysterious and AAAAAAAARGH!.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Yes and i like it because it has not forgotten it's pagan past. I may make a sacrifice to Sulis while I am there...(Insert joke about finding virgins in Bath here..)

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: Dead people...

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: At Drama school when I managed to get laughs in a Strinberg piece.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: a) Pass them some runes. b) Put a box of live bats over their head. c) Wall them up in a dank cellar.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: At the Edinburgh festival last year. Afterwards a dark looking man sidled up to me and said "Verrrry gooood!" in a thick Transylvanian accent! Well you never know!

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Jo Brand, John Shuttlewoth, Bela Lugosi.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Best: You get to wear lots of black which is very slimming. Worst: People constantly asking you to put a curse on their ex husbands/wives/bank managers/comedy promoters etc.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Yes! I am a keen rock drummer! I have played with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Genesis. They don't know that of course as I just play along to their cds in my attic.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: Strut around telling everyone what a great appearance I did at Bath Comedy Festival 2013 until they are forced to say things like "Jesus! That was EIGHT years ago! Move on!" etc.

The Mysterious World of Clovis van Darkhelm is at the Ring O Bells on Saturday 30th March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Funny, true, intricate.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: I often perform at Bath Komedia. Nice Bohemian flavour to the city.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: My life. Especially the painful bits. If it hurts I make a joke about it.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: The first time I did a show at a little open mic in Canada. I did the show for fun but the rush I got on stage made me realise I didn't want to stop doing it.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Gently or aggressively depending on my mood.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: Doing my Laughrica one man show in Zimbabwe in 2011 during the Harare Festival of the Arts was quite an experience. Great audience totally unaccustomed to hearing the kind of content I had so there were equal parts laughter and shock.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Bill Cosby, Louis CK, Sarah Millican, Chris Rock, Martha Chavez, Sugar Sammy.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: BEST: Laughter, I get to talk about what I want, The stage, The travelling.
WORST: The travelling, no stability, work too often in bad conditions...

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I can solve a Rubik's cube in a few minutes. I write fiction. I have rocking massage skills.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: I'm touring my new show across the UK from March - October then taking it to a few African countries.

Daliso Chaponda is appearing in Arthur Smith's Comedy Kick-off cabaret at Bath Rugby Clubhouse on Sunday 31st March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Doubt, doubt, doubt.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: I never been there but I love Bath. I really like the fountain next to Tesco.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: Just from life around me.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: When i was 7 years old.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: I try to meet them at their terms.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: Hmmm, some of the king gong shows at the Comedy Store was pretty mental. And my first ever stand up gig.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Bill Burr, Louis CK, Richard Pryor, Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell. I could go on all day there are so many great ones.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: The best thing is being your own boss. Which also makes it hard because you are working alone so sometimes that his difficult to.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I was quite technical when I played football as a kid. But I was also quite chubby so I had to dribble people twice as I ran so slow.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: Trying to get this show ready for the festival in Edinburgh.

Daniel Simonsen is appearing in A Taste of Edinburgh with Pat Cahill and Mark Maier at Bath Rugby Clubhouse on Tuesday 2nd April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Cute, fun and Kosher.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: That it begins with a capital letter.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: I sit under my grandma's apple tree.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: When I (still) couldn't reach the top shelf at the supermarket.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: I wrestle them to the ground apologetically.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: Warming up for a stripper with a man tied to a chair as my captive audience.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: I don't like to pick favourites but if I did they would rhyme with "Victoria Wood".

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: My keyboard is bigger than me.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Let me see if I remember where I put them…

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: The Towel Comedy Festival.

Emily Rose is appearing in the Opening Night Cabaret Showcase at Bath Cricket Club on Friday 29th March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Miserable Geordie redeemed!

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Normally I arrive at a city after dark, perform for 20 minutes in darkened comedy club and leave... in the dark. however at the festival this year I'm very much looking forward to seeing the city by daylight and getting further than a comedy club carpark. I understand the city has a Spar... and a Lidl.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: I mainly talk about family and work... luckily I've lurched from one crazy job to another and my family are all mental. This years show is another joyous, uplifting tale about the crushing banality of family life. When I first met my wife, Sophie, I was a snowboard instructor... luckily I was saved from that misery of freedom, alcohol and loose woman... now my life's gone from black runs to school runs, from snowboards to ironing boards. And I'm far happier for it.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: Since childhood my heroes were always comedians but it was fairly late in life that I realised that anyone could become a comedian... all you need is a car, an idea and a life of regret and recrimination.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: I love hecklers... I spend most my life shouting at friends and family and so welcome the opportunity to do the same with strangers.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A:

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Some of my favourite comedians are performing here at Bath. Simon Evans' show is simply fantastic, he is the boss, with a cool, cruel acidic wit and gags any comic would kill for. Mister Tony Law has another wonderful show, full of wild and insane buffoonery, it's like watching a simpson cartoon bounce across the stage. I also see Mark Maier is emceeing a show during the festival, I recently saw him do a set at a comedy club and he is blisteringly funny.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: The worst thing about the job is the travel which takes me away from my family. The best thing about the job is the travel which... no, the best thing about the job is travelling around the country and visiting some lovely cities... and Bath.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I was Solihull Young Cyclist of the Year 1984. Sadly this was awarded on the basis of safety and proper adherence to the Highway Code, rather than speed and athleticism. Soon I will be the last person to still have a cycling award from the 80s.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: I once learned how to escape from a strait jacket... a skill which I expect one day to come in handy.

Gary Colman - ChUNT is at The Assembly Inn on Saturday 30th March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Overly concise.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: I like listening to local traffic reports on the radio, in the hope that someone will say "...and the A4 is stationary".

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: Listening to the idiots who phone talk radio late at nights.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: At Grandad's funeral when I was about 13, my Dad took a room full of depressed relatives and made them honk with laughter.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: I attack their moms. Unfair on the moms really, but then they did give birth to idiots.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: I once did a gig in the Black Country with someone from London who was making the classic new act mistake of talking about the London Underground to audiences who've never been on it and don't care about it. 'Does anyone here have to use the Northern Line?', no they don't, you're in Dudley. After a few painful minutes of this a voice shouts out from the back in a thick yam yam accent "Oi, mate, tailor your material!". Devastating.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Emo Philips, Stewart Francis, Mitch Hedberg, Milton Jones, Daniel Kitson.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Best: Being solely responsible for what you do. Worst: Being solely responsible for what you do.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I was Solihull Young Cyclist of the Year 1984. Sadly this was awarded on the basis of safety and proper adherence to the Highway Code, rather than speed and athleticism. Soon I will be the last person to still have a cycling award from the 80s.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: I'm writing a new show to take to the Edinburgh Festival this Summer.

Gary Delaney - Purist is at Burdall's Yard on Thursday 4th April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Funny, Undeniably Arousing.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Yes, I really like the architecture. And you have some brilliant cheesemongers too. Also, that street where all the posh people live and you're not allowed to touch their grass.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: The internet, everyday encounters and intense prayer.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: When I was about 18. I was in Coventry at the time so perhaps I was particularly struck by the futile absurdity of life.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: A variety of tactics, including but not limited to: flirting, insults, questionnaires, ridicule, karate chops, "The Kansas City Shuffle", sterilisation and tactical employment of doorstaff, bigger comedians and dad.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: I did a gig at the Soho theatre in December that contained partial nudity, gifts for the audience, fruit assault, fancy dress and northern erotica. That was pretty memorable.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Right now? Roger Monkhouse, Bobby Mair, Celia Pacquola, Benjamin Partridge and Tony Law.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Best thing: The travel, meeting new people, the reaction to a new joke that works. Worst things: The travel, meeting annoying people, the reaction to a new joke that doesn't work.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Yes.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: It's the last date on my tour. It'll be back to the jacuzzi with the Cristal and the sexually adventurous posse of women that I will specifically hire for the occasion.

Lloyd Langford - Rare Bit is at Bath Cricket Club on Sunday 7th April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Witty, intelligent, informative.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Yes, good atmosphere of history.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: The wrongs of life.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: After my first gig.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Try to incorporate their comments in the flow.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: Singapore. Flew around half the globe for 3 gigs!.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Stewart Francis, Brian Damage and Krystal, Wes Zaharuk.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: People you meet is the best, traveling is the worst.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I probably have a couple but they are hidden from me too!

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: Edinburgh Festival.

Manos Kanellos - Greekonomics is at the Ring O Bells on Saturday 30th March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Culture for Cretins.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: I live only 12 miles from Bath, and that's quite near enough. Bath's the only City I know where the you have to wear Versace to sell the Big Issue.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: Shakespeare, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Elvis, and a few others. My act isn't stand up its a comic revue. I enjoy parodying pop singers, so I guess my inspiration comes from Neil Innes and the Bonzo Dog Band.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: A comedian? I consider myself a serious actor! It was after my debut as Hamlet, it was said I should take up comedy.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Encourage them. Then put them in detention.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: The Cavern, Liverpool - with Sgt. Pepper's Only Dart Board Band- the world's most hilarious Beatles tribute.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Ricky Gervais, Reginald D Hunter, Sean Lock.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: I enjoy touring- arriving in a town where I've never played before, and seeing the posters on display- like a wanted criminal, hoping to pass through without being arrested. It's good to get away unscathed. The worst thing about the job? Asking if any tickets have sold, and being told - "Well, they've started selling..." which translated means "There'll be two in."

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: No - any talents I have have always been paraded for the world to see. I'm not one for hiding my light under a bushel - or behind a bush - or whatever that may mean.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: Stratford Fringe, Salisbury Festival, then back for the Bath Fringe, and the Sheffield Poetry Festival - because I conned them into thinking the act was cultural. In the Autumn I'm back with Sgt. Pepper's touring with a concert performance featuring the "Revolver" album. I'm a glutton for punishment.

Martin Dimery - Shakespeare Rattle and Roll is at The Assembly Inn (Festival Bar) on Friday 5th April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Fast, Honest, Rude.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Yes, lots. I used to LOVE the gig at Porter Bar, which has sadly gone. I like the feel of it, I live in Oxford so it's fairly similar. Very pretty and doesn't feel too big.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: My family & friends. My inability to be normal when needed.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: Very young, probably 14? It's something I always dreamed of doing. I feel very lucky that it worked out.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: By being more sober than them and having a microphone. If you're being rubbish there's not much you can do, but if they are just being annoying then you can take them down by being quick and in control.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: I did two nights at The New Theatre in Oxford last year on a bill with Michael McIntyre, Jimmy Carr, Jason Manford, Andi Osho and Jason Byrne (to name a few!) it was 2,000 people a night in a theatre I used to go to to watch my comedy heroes, so to gig with them there was amazing (Jimmy Carr in Nov 2007 was the first comic I ever saw and it was there, so to gig with him in the same room was surreal).

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Greg Davies, Russell Howard, Romesh Ranganathan.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: The travel is both the best and worst bit. Seeing new places is great but it can be a bit lonely. I love meeting lots of cool people and working with your heroes is fantastic.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I can flip my eyelids inside out. I also make a mean American Pancakes and Streaky Bacon with Maple Syrup.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: I'm previewing this show more and more, then I'm taking it to The Edinburgh Festival and in the autumn I'm going on my first national tour, so I'm very excited about that. I've also got lots of different projects in the works in telly but chances are nothing will come of them!

Matt Richardson - Hometown Hero is at the Ring O Bells on Monday 1st April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Trial and error.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: It's always clean, bright and old.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: ...picking things up off the street can usually start something.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: I'm not sure I am one.I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be Rod Stewart or Johnathan Richman.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Sometimes with difficulty.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: We played Port Eliot Festival a few years ago and a sound check turned into one long 45 minute funky riff with me rambling and railing over it, about selfish babies and soggy Guardians.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: John Shuttleworth, John Cooper Clarke, Reeves and Mortimer, Eddie Izzard, Viv Stanshall, Count Arthur Strong, Mr. Hulot, Steve Martin.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Picking all the straws up at the end, and a long drive back home are two pants affairs. The playing about on stage beats everything.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Some undiscovered ones + I paint and also draw portraits in biro on brown paper bags.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: Easter eggs.

Mik Artistik's Ego Trip play the Opening Night Cabaret Showcase on Friday 29th March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Moist and chocolatey.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Been to Bath many times and love it. It's beautiful, full of lovely pubs and people, the police station has a balcony and Inspector Morse finally got laid there. (Not on the balcony - just in Bath generally.)

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: By not watching television. Gin helps too.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: Ooh I don't know - I probably first daydreamed about it in school after watching a Billy Connolly video. But I didn't do anything about it till I discovered Glasgow had live comedy gigs where I could do my first DISASTROUS open spot.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Sobbing and a blade.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: It's a straight toss-up between opening for Milton Jones at the Guernsey Comedy Festival and playing to 800 Serbians at a massive auditorium in Belgrade.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Dylan Moran, Andrew Maxwell and Kim Jong Un

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Best things: the laughs, the interesting travel and the company of other comics. Worst things: badly run gigs, drunk blokes telling you bad jokes and Ginsters products.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Archery.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: The Brighton Fringe and the Camden Fringe - and just lots more gigs. Until the call comes from Spielberg anyway...

Neil McFarlane's First Period is at the Ring O Bells on Monday 1st April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: My face, talking.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Yes, I play the Komedia quite regularly. Usually I only see Bath for short periods at night, but when I've stayed here it's very pleasant. The Oxfam bookshop is quite good.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: Anywhere I can find it. My life, the news, things people have said to me, things I've read, my imagination...

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: November 19th, 1992 at 1.30am. OK, that's probably not exact, but I can remember the moment. I was a student and it was while I was in the middle of writing an essay in the middle of the night, stopping every now and then to jot down a joke I'd thought of.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Depends on the heckler and how it's affected the gig. Usually it's not meant badly, so sometimes it's quite a friendly, chatty affair. Other times it's actually hostile, in which case the answer to your question is, "Mercilessly."

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: I don't remember. Actually, I once opened for Bill Hicks when I was still a student. That was quite a memorable gig, although more for Bill's bit of it than mine.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: There are quite a few who I thought were amazing live who have since become huge and moved off the circuit, like Dara O'Briain and Rhod Gilbert. Like most comics, I love Louis CK, who was the first thing I ever saw on American TV when I first went there about 10 years ago. Currently I would recommend Carey Marx, Andrew Maxwell, Tony Law and Adam Hills. It's also worth travelling to see Rich Hall live.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Having to answer the same clichéd interview questions again and again - that's one of the highlights. I'd be tempted to say the travelling was the worst part, but I quite enjoy it. Sitting on a train reading or listening to podcasts isn't exactly suffering. Maybe the worst part is never being free in the evening, which makes it hard to socialise with non-comedians (we call you 'Gigglesponges'). So conversely, maybe the best part is often being free during the day, which gives me time to spend with all the children I don't have.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Yes.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: I'll be recording a new series of the Radio 4 show, 'Tonight', with Rory Bremner and Andy Zaltzman, although it's being moved to another slot and renamed 'Rory Bremner's Big Issues'. They didn't go with my suggestion of 'Nick Doody Sates the Gigglesponges', for some reason. I'm also working on a pilot for my own radio show, which is in the very early stages, but it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

Nick Doody is appearing in Arthur Smith's Comedy Kick-off cabaret at Bath Rugby Clubhouse on Sunday 31st March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Many stupid stories.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: I lived there for 3 years, so I have many happy memories.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: I just screw up my life and report back.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: I wanted to be a highwayman, this just sort of happened instead.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: With kindness and understanding.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: A couple of days ago I did a gig at one of the forward bases in Afghanistan, we helicoptered in, built the stage, did the gig for 700 royal marines then helicoptered out. Amazing, amazing gig, brilliant audience. I'm still buzzing when I think about it now.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Morecambe and Wise.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: The travel - best and worst.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I'm very handy with a chainsaw.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: Breakfast.

Nick Page is appearing in the Opening Night Cabaret Showcase at Bath Cricket Club on Friday 29th March - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Absurd, relentless rambling.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: I've always wanted to fish The River Avon and I hear there's some free pegs and a good head of bream behind PC world.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: From saying to myself "come on man, for god's sake write something funny".

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: Aged 5 i dressed as a nurse and smacked myself over the head with an empty lemonade bottle. My big brother and his mates loved it, it's still my best routine to date.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Gosofastidontletthemgetawordin.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: I climbed inside a 6 foot balloon at the Leicester Square Theatre, that was fun, my mate John was ready with a knife to cut me out. I told him, if I wave my leg - burst the balloon, then I climbed fully inside and he couldn't see my legs, so he just left me to die.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Vic and Bob, Spike Milligan, Mike Wilmot, Harry Hill, Hans Teeuwen, John Kearns.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Best - no job interviews, worst - every night is a job interview

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: I can work wonders with duck legs, wine and plums. Not individually mind.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: I seldom know what I'm doing more than eight hours ahead, it's YouTube, ruined my brain. So I'll just be wandering aimlessly round Bath for a bit trying to find the station. Maybe a spot of fishing.

Pat Cahill is appearing in A Taste of Edinburgh with Daniel Simonsen and Mark Maier at Bath Rugby Clubhouse on Tuesday 2nd April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Socks In Space.

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Everything's fab about Bath, except the hills. You need more hills.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: This year we're doing sci fi and outer space so we've watched lots of fillums (the Scottish word for... there's not another word for it, we've watched a lot of fillums). Star Wars, Star Trek, you name it, we've seen it so you don't have to.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: We don't want to be a comedian. This is an educational show. Well one of us writes the show and the other one (sweary word removed) it up.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: Usually we deal with them verbally, but with this show we have light sabres, so watch out.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: This year we've performed in Malta on a boat called The Black Pearl, which used to be owned by Errol Flynn. It's where he used to hold his big balls.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: You know those stand ups that you used to see about 5 years ago and you don't see them so much cos they've given up? We like them cos we get their gigs.

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: There is nothing bad about our brilliant job of making people laugh. That said, last year we flew all the way to Australia to perform in the Adelaide Fringe for a month then played the Edinburgh Fringe while the Olympics were on so only half as many people came as usual. So we've learnt some new ways of not making so much money.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Surviving on the money you make after you've played the Adelaide & Edinburgh Fringes in Olympic Year, we're good at that.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: We're going back to the Edinburgh Fringe with Socks In Space - so Bath get to see this new show first! You lucky people. Now excuse us, we have a light-sabre battle to rehearse. Fwoosh zap fwish zzzzupp etc.

Scottish Falsetto Socks In Space is at the Ring O Bells on Sat 30th March and Fri 5th April - click here for details

1. Describe your show in 3 words:
A: Well at the moment the theme is "yikes, I'm pregnant."

2. Have you been to Bath before? If so – what do you like about the City?
A: Lots of times - it's beautiful and the comedy audiences are great.

3. Where do you get the inspiration for your material?
A: Everyday life: from being an American in the UK to being married to a Welsh guy, material's right there for the taking. Occasionally I weave in topical humour too.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
A: Probably when I was like 12 but it took a first career as a psychotherapist before I went for it. It was good training.

5. How do you deal with hecklers?
A: As above. No actually, it depends on the night and the heckler. I've done everything from kindness and understanding to foul-mouthed telling and insults. Key thing is not letting it throw me off my stride which is sometimes difficult as I have a goldfish memory sometimes.

6. What's been the most memorable gig you've done?
A: Probably an outdoor gig by a castle on top of a mountain in Croatia to several hundred great audience members. The sun was setting in the background and it felt surreal.

7. Who are your favourite comedians?
A: Louis CK is my fave stand up right now. Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig are all around comedy heroes. Then there's Eddie Izzard and Daniel Kitson...

8. What are the best and worst things about your job?
A: Best is the luxury of expressing myself through humour to the public. Worst is the danger of taking all that too seriously.

9. Have you got any hidden talents?
A: Not that I want published.

10. What's next for you after Bath Comedy Festival?
A: I'm working on a couple sitcoms and having a baby in June. I'm guessing balancing an infant with comedy will keep me nice and crazy.

Taylor Glenn is appearing in the Opening Night Cabaret Showcase at Bath Cricket Club on Friday 29th March - click here for details