Not a dream any more...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve dreamed of working in comedy. 

I spent my summer holidays using my dad’s camcorder to create short films, and recorded a radio show called The Big House… a total rip-off from the Big Breakfast, where me and my friends used to impersonate different celebrities. 

However, as I grew up, I drifted from it, never really knowing how to connect dreams with reality. 

It was only when I was promoted to Account Director at M&C Saatchi that my manager suggested that at some point I take a leap. 

Partly because I kept telling him about it (maybe a little too candidly). But also because I spent large parts of time appearing in am dram play after am dram play. 

So in 2014, I took that leap, joining The Wagon, a comedy content company. I also then sat down with Tom Blackwood, who I’d met in an am dram production, and we decided that it was time to really make a go of Mid-Brow - our comedy sketch group. 

We met up, night after night, weekend after weekend, writing sketches, doing the pub comedy circuit, and got selected to appear at The Pleasance up at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

As the years have gone on, we’ve made short films, have won awards and have appeared at festivals around the world. 

But it was last week, when BBC Scotland decided to feature one of the sketches I’d written and acted in on TV that something really stuck. 

That I can finally say that I have written and acted in something on television. 

So, to the 6 year old Alex. We did it. We really did it. 

And to everyone else putting a shift in, without really knowing where or how it’s going to work out. Just know that step by step, you’ll get somewhere with it. 

And to celebrate each and every little win. As it’s so easy to blow past them. To not take even 2 minutes to jump up and down, scream and shout, and say ‘fuck me, I did it’. 

As, where’s the fun in not celebrating something? Where’s the reward in shifting the goalposts, rather than seeing where you were when you first dreamed that dream, and where you are now?

I was 6 years old. In my room. Making a comedy detective film with stuffed toys. 

Now I’ve acted on BBC TV.

Good lord. I'm proud of myself.