Jack Whitehall has said he was sacked as a waiter when he was starting out in comedy because he was trying out new material on customers.
The comedian told the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen that a diner complained to his manager that he was spending too much time talking to them.
Whitehall said: “I was a waiter once and I got sacked because I’d just started doing stand-up comedy and the manager had a complaint. “I kept trying out my half-baked jokes on customers and they complained that I was too chatty and they didn’t want my jokes and so they had to get rid of me.” He added that he would “pull up a chair” so that he could chat with customers. “To be fair it was pretty ropey material back in the day,” Whitehall said. “Some would argue it hasn’t
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