Elis James: ‘I once got heckled by a woman shouting: I’d like to be the mayor of Penzance!'

The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …

I supported Rhod Gilbert in 2008. He was breathtakingly funny, every night. I also think Daniel Kitson can do a job.

The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen …

I must have watched the Cardinal Burns old school v new school rap sketch a hundred times. Alan Partridge trying to explain the vagaries of the group system for the 1994 World Cup always makes me howl with laughter. I often end conversations with “You won’t find that with Fifa” but nobody ever knows what I’m talking about.

The funniest person I know …

Isy Suttie does an impression of a hippie “blissing out” on cannabis which has been making me laugh for almost nine years.

The funniest heckle I’ve ever had …

I got heckled by a woman in Penzance who downed a tequila, stripped off her clothes to reveal a 1950s bathing costume that had been painted silver, and “swam” around the stage I was on, shouting: “Vote for me, I’d like to be the mayor of Penzance.”

The funniest number …

80. I gave John Robins £80 as a BACS transfer this year for his birthday because I had been consistently getting his birthday presents wrong since 2005.

The funniest joke I’ve ever heard …

“No offence Lynn, but technically your life is not worth insuring.”

Elis James and John Robins: The Holy Vible Book Tour visits Nottingham, Monday 29; Birmingham, Tuesday 30 & Wednesday 31 October; London, Friday 2 November; continues to 19 January