‘Living with them taught me to always “be on”, which is infuriating for some people to be around, but when you’re all sat there, exchanging top-level banter, with rolling jokes and callbacks – man, I felt so alive!’ Howard: swagger and bench-pressing,’ he claims.
What wisdom did he pick up from his future superstar flatmates? ‘Richardson: hygiene and slow roasts. It was the highlight of my week, and still is.’ He’s lived funnyīack in Bristol, Robins’s living situation was a sitcom waiting to happen – he shared a flat with Russell Howard and Jon Richardson. I used to pull over in petrol stations and talk to him on the phone for an hour. ‘I have loved chatting to him since I first met him ten years ago. But it was getting me down doing the same old gigs to earn a living and getting none of the sweet, sweet London action.’Īfter settling in the capital, the 32-year-old comic landed a breakthrough gig, hosting his own XFM radio show with fellow stand-up Elis James. ‘I love Bristol with all my heart, and miss it every sweaty-tubed, mean-spirited, siren-deafening London day.
‘I realised that the industry’s top kingmakers will never go to a gig in Chipping Sodbury,’ he explains. After eight years living in Bristol, where he was a favourite on the West Country circuit, John Robins made the move to the Big Smoke a few years ago.
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