Comic Timing: Being a dad's no joke, unless ...

03 June 2016 - 10:37 By Staff Reporter

Being a father is a messy business. If you are too strict or too emotionless, your daughter might end up a stripper. Veer too far the other way and you could get an emotionally needy lefty who only talks about saving Mongolian Spotted Wombats. Comedian and new father Chris Forrest's latest stand up show Who's Your Daddy? tackles some of these issues.Would you want your children to become comedians?Only if they wanted to. I want to be that father who supports his kids' decisions as much as possible, except for which football team they support. That has to be Liverpool.How has growing older affected your comedy?I can't make jokes about going to clubs and not picking up ladies any more because that's no longer relevant to my life. Now I talk about being a dad and going bald.Do you find yourself having to self censor, given people's current proclivity to outrage?No, not really, I still have my opinions and I'll stick by them. If we all thought and acted the same the world would be a really boring place. That's one of the reasons I love SA, the diversityIf you had to pick, would you choose as South Africa's president for life: Donald Trump or Jacob Zuma?Can I get a hybrid? We could pay millions to build a wall around a fire-pool to keep the Mexicans out. It would be a security feature."Who's Your Daddy?" will be on at the Auto and General Theatre until June 18. www.theatreonthesquare.co.za..

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