Nick Mohammed: ‘I cried when we shot the last scene of Ted Lasso’

‘Most standups would say they are a version of themselves, but I would be terrified to do standup as me’: Nick Mohammed. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

I didn’t get into comedy until I was 21 or 22, in Footlights at Cambridge, even though I wasn’t studying there. I did geophysics at Durham University. My dissertation – The Effects of Glacier-Induced Isostatic Readjustment on Current Climate Change Models – wasn’t the funniest. I paid my way through university doing magic at summer balls, parties and weddings.

I’ve got two boys, seven and five, and a baby girl. It’s mad, but wonderful. Like all new parents, we had zero clue. My wife is a teacher, so we thought: “It won’t be that difficult.” Obviously it was – and still is – exhausting.