 He began his career as a compere at the Big Fish comedy clubs in South London, and has been nominated for Chortle's Best Compere Award three times in 2004, 2007 and 2008.He has performed stand up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every year since 2003, after making his début in 2001.During the 2006 Fringe, he performed the revealing solo show "All of Me", in which he publicly acknowledged his own homosexuality to his audience for the first time.