FebFast comedy show

Aidan Jones is 32, gave up drinking three and a half years ago and his happy to share his story.

It sounds the start of an AA meeting but Aidan is a stand-up comedian and he’s telling his truth at the Shedshaker Brewery in Castlemaine on Tuesday, February 28 as a curtain closure to FebFast.

The Morning After is the name of his show and it sounds like a lot of fun. Aidan said he thought giving up the grog would solve all his problems “but I am a bit of an idiot and I have all the same problems but now I have to deal with them sober, so if anything it’s worse”.

Aidan started his career 12 years ago and comedy is the only thing he has ever wanted to do. “I thought at 20 I would give it a shot and from that first time the rush was just like, ‘I want more of that’.”

His career is one reason he decided to stop drinking. “It wasn’t a big problem, but I knew there were too many times I would do things and be ashamed or annoyed and it was always linked to booze. Drinking is fine but too often it became something that was an annoyance so I had the idea of ‘what if I didn’t drink at all?’. Lots of people asked me why and it’s hard question to answer so I decided I would just write a show about it.

“And it makes me more accountable. Comedy is a hard game, very competitive and I want to be the best comedian I can be, I want to make a living out of this, and have a family…those goals are just not compatible with alcohol.

“But I don’t want to put my choice on anyone else. I hope that at the end of my show if people have something in their life they are not happy with, they realise they have the choice to change it. Alcohol is just my thing.”

Link: www.aidanjonescomedy.com

Words: Donna Kelly