As comedian Jake Lambert admits, there could be few more aptly named places to have had his first seizure.
“I was in a fitting room,” laughs Jake, 33, who has built a name for himself on the comedy circuit by focusing on his epilepsy, which first revealed itself as he was trying on jeans in Topshop.
It’s not a condition that Jake – who regularly supports big acts including Michael McIntyre and Jack Dee, and has written for hit TV shows including Mock The Week and 8 Out Of 10 Cats – is shy to open up about. But he is aware his audiences sit up and listen with a different kind of attentiveness when he uses the material he has written about his seizures.
