COMEDIAN Kevin Bridges saw his companies earn more than £4 million last year.

Newly published accounts from the two firms the stand-up uses to channel his earnings show they have a combined value of £4.2m.

Bridges, 29, started performing in Glasgow clubs as a teenager before moving on to sell-out tours and a string of television appearances.

He performed a huge UK tour of his A Whole Different Story show last year, which saw him play 16 sell-out gigs at Glasgow’s Hydro arena.

Accounts for last year for Bridges’ company Dip and Chip Limited show its has total assets of £3,277,620.

That includes £854,262 held in a bank account and £2,423,358 owed by debtors.

The company owes just £5,100 to unnamed creditors and declared a profit of £2,272,519 for 2015.

That firm, set up in 2012, is named after one of his most famous routines about American students eating dip and chip snacks at Chad Hogan’s party.

Bridges’ second company El Tiburon – Spanish for The Shark – has total assets of £900,000 and made a profit of £897,071 for the 12-month period.

The accounts, which cover the period up to October 31, 2015, also show the comedian has taken out loans from 

Dip and Chip totalling £1.9m.

Bridges, from Clydebank, is the sole director of the Glasgow-based companies and owns all the shares in them.

As well as touring, DVDs and TV shows, the comedian has earned cash through selling his own-branded merchandise and also released his autobiography.

In 2014, he had his name officially registered as a trademark to protect his money-spinning image rights.