He’s a rookie, he’s a comedy rapper, and he has more claims to fame than Bill Shakespeare – that’s right, it’s Doc Brown, who will be appearing at the Class Comedy night at Thames Ditton’s Angel Inn on Wednesday. He spoke to Paul Fleckney.

Paul Fleckney: Where do you live?

Doc Brown: Newington Green. It’s between Highbury and Dalston. I used to live in Dalston but have inched over the border into Islington so feel like I’m moving up in the world.

PF: How long have you been gigging for?

DB: My first gig was at a BBC Radio Entertainment night at the Albany, Great Portland Street, in February 2008. I have been gigging professionally since October. I’m a rookie!

PF: What do you do?

DB: I take people on a journey through the 10 adult years I spent before I found comedy, working in the music business. It was a po-faced world. I pepper the journey with the odd song.

PF: Who makes you laugh?

DB: Sean Lock, Ed Aczel, Rich Hall, Stephen K Amos, Micky Flanagan and Terry Alderton, to name a few. And my mate Alan, who’s not a comedian, he just always make lots of malapropisms.

PF: Where do you usually perform?

DB: Whichever comedy club will have me. I am constantly rented out to the Midlands like some loanee footballer who is not quite cutting it at Chelsea.

PF: What is your favourite London comedy venue?

DB: I love the Boat Show at the Tattershall Castle on the Embankment. It is probably the venue I have played the most and it always has the bubbliest crowd.

PF: What should you be famous for?

DB: Teaching Mylene Klass how to rap on CD:UK, being novelist Zadie Smith’s brother, launching the world’s first audio/visual dictionary wordia.com, being Mark Ronson’s MC, touring with De La Soul, studying the power of language with Melvyn Bragg and Terry Wogan. But no one remembers. I’m the youngest has-been on the block.

PF: Who is your celebrity doppelganger?

DB: I came off stage at a gig once and a guy came up to me and said: “Yeah, that was good man, you’re like a funny Kieron Dyer.”

PF: Whose sex face would you least like to see?

DB: Max Mosely’s. I prefer to see an old fascist going rather than coming.

Doc Brown @ Class Comedy, The Angel Inn, Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton, Saturday, September 30, 8pm, £10, visit classcomedy.com londonisfunny.com