I often say I don’t need to tell lies doing stand-up comedy, because my whole life is a joke.

While this may seem gratuitously self-deprecating, it also happens to be true in terms of how I think about this journey we call existence, as each day I look out for wee things that I inwardly call “God winks” – coincidences so perfectly timed it feels like it couldn’t be random.

I think of it as a wink from above, a reassurance that I’m seen, guided and not alone.

It might be running into someone that I was just wondering about, a song that plays at exactly the right moment, or a word or sign that answers a question I’ve been carrying.

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When I first went to university I studied government and politics, before quickly becoming disenchanted with the twisted system and lamenting the fact I didn’t have the confidence to go for a degree in drama, where my passion truly lay.

One day I was whinging to a girl sitting next to me in my seminar, who cajoled me into tagging along to........

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