Wait, I saw that. You posted a video of someone in the crowd telling you they were a vet, then you said, “OK, maybe some things aren’t right…» and then it made people laugh.

Yeah, definitely.

I normally start shows by saying I have a degree in chemistry, then ask who else has it. If there’s anyone in there who has a chemistry degree from a higher level or from a better university, I’m done.

What’s the worst heckling you’ve ever experienced?

I did a work in progress show last Sunday, and I made a joke about exothermic reactions.

This is the joke where you ask if the audience wants to hear about exothermic reactions and then say you I don’t have the energy.

Yeah, and in my head, I swear it’s true. But I just hear a little voice saying, “Actually, I think if you change it to activation energyit will work much better.

OK, that’s fair, but yours works too, so…

I make a joke where I draw a line of best fit. In Edinburgh I drew it as a straight, linear line of best fit, then after the laughter died down, someone said: “Actually it’s a best fit exponential curve.”

What’s worse is that I’ve made this joke several times and it wasn’t until someone said it that everyone in the audience was like, “Yeah, they’re right.” It’s like oh no, I’ve made this joke 20 times…

Do you consider your sets educational? Or at least informative?

Maybe a little. But I would probably put that energy into something else. For example, I’m currently writing a book about the periodic table, and it’s like a young adult book. So it’s between 10 and 15 years. It’s actually truly educational where I’ve divided the book into groups of the periodic table, and then each group is related to its characteristics and properties as an element, and then I’ve sort of fictionalized them into personalities that correspond to those properties. I know that East educational. But it might lead me to hopefully produce more educational content like the book.