DAN Clark, star of hit BBC show, “How Not To Live Your Life”, is in a reflective stage of his life.

As part of his tour show, “Me, My Selfie and I”, Clark openly discusses and looks back on events throughout his life, from dating before the smart-phone era, to growing older and having to mature.

Choosing to travel the country by train, Clark has brought his tour to Scotland, so far playing Edinburgh and Aberdeen before finishing off the tour with a performance at the Oran Mor in Glasgow’s west end.

“The tour has been really good, but also really exhausting,” said Clark, “I don't know yet if it’s a stupid decision, but I decided that I wanted to do it by train rather than car.

"But after five shows, carrying a guitar and a heavy bag, and almost always seeming to be with commuters, I thought, ‘This just isn't rock and roll, I just feel like a commuter every day’.

"But now we’re driving so we’re driving around Scotland and it’s just as stressful because I don't know my way around. That’s the boring answer, it’s been good!”

With the show serving as a reflection of his life, it was also a chance to reflect on the shows performed so far.

Speaking in Edinburgh, Clark said; “Tonight was brilliant. The audience were really warm, they were up for it, I hate audiences that are too polite, stay quiet and won’t respond if I ask them something, tonight they were open and wanted to talk back.

"It felt very different to Manchester, where they were a bit like, ‘Come on make us laugh, you Southerner!’. But then they were brilliant, I slightly had to prove myself and once I did, they were really lovely”.

Clark has also played in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival, a different experience for performers entirely:  “It was different to when I’ve played Edinburgh during the festival, because audiences can be hard work during that; they can see 3000 other shows than me, and they sit there going, ‘Well, we could have seen anyone else and we came to see you so this better be good.

"Or they’ve seen 3000 shows already that day and they’re just fatigued. It’s hard during the festival, you get such a weird mix that you wouldn't normally get anywhere else. So then, coming to Edinburgh outside of the festival is like: ‘Oh wow, a normal audience that’s really happy to come out and see a show and not been killed by an overload of senses”.

Ahead of the performance in Glasgow, Clark expressed admiration for the city and for Scottish audiences: “Glasgow I really love. They’re quite vocal and not afraid to give you a bit of sh**, but in a good way….good sh**!”

“I feel like Scottish audiences are a bit ‘p***-takey’, they don't see it as me being the funny guy and they just sit quiet, if they’ve got something funny to say, they’ll say it. The only other place I’ve been to which reminds me a bit of Scottish shows is Liverpool.”

“I do enjoy ad-libbing with the audience though. When you do your material over and over again, you can get a bit bored of it, so when people give you some new things to play with, it’s really fun”.

His show on BBC, which he created and starred in, ‘How Not To Live Your Life’, followed the life of Don Danbury, a socially awkward misfit who always seemed to get things wrong.

However performing comedy for television proves to be very different from doing it on stage:  “Performing stand-up is so much more fun than doing comedy on television. The travelling and the food isn't so great. But the performing itself is, because you’re getting all this feedback and an instant response. Although when you do comedy and you film it, you’ve written it a few weeks or months ago and think it’s hilarious, then rehearse it.

Then you get to the day you film it and because you’ve heard it and everyone else has heard it before, you do a take and then no-one laughs.

And you think, ‘Oh, maybe it’s not funny anymore’. But it isn’t that, it’s just that everyone knows it. It can’t be funny for the fifth time, it just can’t and sometimes that freaks you out and you think, ‘Oh sh**, maybe it isn't very good, maybe we should try and change it or ad-lib and you can see everyone laughing behind the camera, but that’s just because its new. So you have to try and remember why it was funny all those weeks ago. Whereas with stand-up, you know instantly whether it’s funny or not”.

With the show having come to an end in 2011, there still remains a strong following of fans who turn up at Clark’s gigs on the road: “This tour is four years after my TV show was on and I haven’t toured for two or three years and the weird thing is, there’s still all these people coming to see me who were big fans of the show and it does make you kind of grateful that people like something that you did so much that it doesn’t matter if it’s still on. That’s been good”.

“I remember the first tour I did after the TV show had been on and I was wondering what my audience were going to be like. I’d done a few gigs in London and I’d notice there was definitely a demographic of young guys in their early-20’s who will dress from Topman and they’re all like wannabe-Don Danbury’s, and I remember thinking, ‘Is that it?

"Have I just attracted mini-lads or something?’ Which is great, I’m happy with whoever watches it. But there was also a part of me that thought, ‘They do know that Don’s ironic? That he isn't someone to look up to? I hope!’. But then when I went on tour, I realised there was a wide mix or people of different ages, races, classes, and it was really nice to know it reached different demographics”.

With the tour coming to an end, fans will be eagerly anticipating what Clark will do next in his career.

He said: “I’m working on some TV stuff and a film I’m due to direct - we’ll see if that happens because film is quite a precarious thing. But it’s been in development for about a year or so. Then after that, maybe some live stuff again.

"But I want to get back onto TV. People are saying things like, ‘Why aren't you doing a new TV show’, but really, first of all, you need to come up with the idea, and then you’ve got to convince channels to pay lots of money to let you do it. It sort of takes longer than I think people realise, but I’m very close to something which hopefully is going to happen soon”.

You can watch more of what Dan had to say here

Dan Clark is at Oran Mor, Glasgow, on Friday, November 13, from 8pm. Tickets can be purchased via Ticketmaster.