Love him. saw him live 3 few years ago in edinburgh (before he was on TV very much at all) and he was hilarious, actually tears streaming down my cheeks, funny. At the end, as I was heavily pregnant and slow to move, I was the last to leave the venue. He stayed on stage and spoke to people as they left (as he had done when we all filed in) and he chatted away to me and my friend for quite a while and was absolutely lovely as well as very off-the-cuff funny. Like many comedians, his on stage persona is exactly that, an ON STAGE persona. Seen him twice since at larger, less intimate venues, and of course you lose that closeness to the audience which worked so well for him, but I still found him very funny indeed.