Firstperson: PJ Gallagher

PJ Gallagher:comedian, 39, Dublin

PJ Gallagher.
PJ Gallagher.

A two-year break from stand-up is too long. It’s like when you haven’t gone to the gym for a week – imagine not going for two years.

[Stand-up] is like asking someone out every day. Every day of your life, you have to ask someone out!

The closer it got to the gig, the worse my stage fright would get, to the point where I would be in the venue just lying there ...