Milton Jones on Mock the Week: 'You got a dossier about things that could come up' 

As the UK comedian gets ready to perform in Cork and other Irish centres, Richard Fitzpatrick had a chat with the King Of The One-Liners

Milton Jones is at Cork Opera House in September

When Milton Jones materialised on screen for our interview via Zoom, he was sitting at his computer screen. Propped up behind his head and shoulders, balancing between his back and his seat, was a 2x2 metre cardboard print-out of bookshelves. Jones is a walking billboard of humour. He always has a startled look on stage and purposefully wears loud shirts, with his magnificent hair shooting skywards and off to the side.

“The reason I got [my fashion sense] was to act as a signpost because if I come up and do these slightly offbeat jokes, it would take a long time for people to tune into it, but if I came with my hair up and a zany shirt, they think, OK, this isn’t going to be straightforward,” says Jones.