Your website is ‘MrTonyLaw’. Should we be addressing you as ‘Mister’?

No, never, but call me whatever you like. I lost my website name to a tool shop a few years back, so I had to add on Mr. It reminds me I’m male as well.

Your 2012 show was called Maximum Nonsense and your 2013 show is Nonsense Overdrive. I sense a ‘nonsense’ theme?

I try to remind people that much of it is silly. Not all of it, but much of it. Also I was advised against calling it ‘Shouty B*****ks’ – which much of it is, in fact. But clever b*****ks at that.

There’s a long tradition in British humour for the absurd and nonsense with Spike Milligan and The Goons, Edward Lear etc. Would you say that what you do is in that classic nonsense tradition?

Yes, you nailed it there in the question to be honest. I grew up watching Python reruns on Canadian TV.

Did you have a good run at the Edinburgh Fringe?

It was a great run. Full houses of happy loons cheering at the end. Can’t complain.

Your 2012 show has heralded as your ‘breakout show’ by many critics. How did it feel to have those kind of reviews after 14 years treading the boards?

Well, I think they were right. But I certainly hadn’t been as popular before then. It did feel like some sort of breakthrough.

Your wife is a director. Does she have any input into or influence on your material or performances?

She hates to admit that she directs my shows. She’s a photographer and mother more at the moment. The only influence she has is wondering why I would want to say certain things. She comes in after most of the show is written and helps to shape it.

You’re definitely not a joke-teller. Were you ever a gagsmith?

Once in a while it slips out.

How did you come to stand up?

I was always the class clown. But it took years for me to get confident enough to try. Alongside it, in no particular order, I’ve worked as a gardener, garbage truck driver, barman and builder. And then I went professional in around 2000. Before then, back in Canada, I worked in an abattoir for many years, as well as a lawnmower driver and tour guide.

* Tony Law plays Birmingham’s Glee Club tonight. For tickets ring 0871 472 0400 or go to www.glee.co.uk/birmingham .