Goose talks about his new show, Hydroberserke.

1 Tell us about your Fringe show

It’s your run-of-the-mill strobe-speed sketch pinball from a corybantic one-man cartoon. And we’ve got a live band, obviously. What sort of wally comes to the Fringe without his band?

2 Best thing about the Fringe?

Reading your 5-star review from The Herald. Always a big day. Also, when you find out your pre-Edinburgh publicity worked: you get a packed room from day one, with everyone whispering ‘Well if their show is as good as their answer to question 2, I’ll be impressed! They even predicted I would say this somehow’.

3 Worst thing about the Fringe?

When The Herald stabs you in the back and gives you an honest three-star. Also, that period when alcohol no longer helps suppress the stress you feel, but you’ve got to wait about 48 hours until the Stockholm Syndrome kicks in.

4 How many years have you been coming to the Fringe?

Fourth year. More fact-based questions please – there’s less expectation on us to be funny.

5 Favourite Fringe venue?

We love Assembly - and this year they’ve given us their most prestigious venue: The Piccolo. It’s a spectacular circus tent with beautiful lights, not too hot, a policy of executing hecklers. Perfect.

6 Best Fringe memory?

We tend to repress all our Fringe memories, so it gets a bit murky. Think there was something about being in a church with a priest? Might be getting confused though.

7 Best heckle?

‘Your questionnaire in The Herald was s**t, mate! Especially your answer to number 7! You couldn’t even think of a comeback to me, six months later!’’. Grr. That guy was such an egg.

8 Craziest on stage experience?

I think we kind of normalise how ‘crazy’ it is onstage. When you crack an egg onto your own head every day, and all you’re thinking about is ‘I need to get the right ratio of albumen to yolk in this crack, or I’ll not get the laugh’, it probably suggests you’ve lost all sense of perspective. Sorry - dignity. All sense of dignity.

9 What’s on your rider?

Not much - pre-show we just down a couple of cool ones and dance around to Anastacia. But she’s often hard to book for the rider, and when she can come she also wants a rider. It can get quite complex.

10 How do you wind down after a show?

I normally just head out for a light jog. It helps keep me fresh and also away from the mob with pitchforks who are demanding a refund.

11 What do you love about Scotland?

Their booming pitchfork industry. To be honest, I only know Scotland from the Fringe, but from what I can work out you’re a proud nation of jugglers and am-dram students. But you guys must hate it when the Fringe comes and everyone brings haggis and kilts. How stupid is that stuff!

12 What do you like about Edinburgh?

The stress: it helps us keep in touch with our therapists.

13 What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve done?

Finally learning how to spell the word kaylee. Keyleigh. cighligh. Irn Bru. Kaelee. Cayelee. Ceilidh.

14 What kind of jokes do a Scottish crowd seem to respond to?

Weirdly, the ones we’ve worked on and honed over months of previews. I guess they’re quite picky in that way.

15 Favourite joke?

It requires too much context for this space, but I’ll try and recreate it. My Uncle Dan (heavily diabetic) said to my sister Mary (one arm, hates football) ‘Ha! Glad you bought that popcorn then?’. Brought the house down.

Goose: Hydroberserke is on at Assembly George Square Gardens until August 28.