KEVIN Bridges has completed three multi-million pound tours, released three DVDs and an autobiography and he would never have to work again if he lived as long as a Timelord.

However, the 29 year-old comedian from Clydebank admits success comes with a price tag.
“You can become paranoid,” he says with a wry smile. “I got on a flight this morning and sat next to a woman who had her mobile in her hand the whole time.  You assume you’re being recorded all the time. Yet, you’re scared to ask if she is recording in case you’re considered an ego maniac.

“And there are times when you’re on a train and someone’s flash camera goes off on your face for the whole journey. What do you do when you think the world is looking at you?”
Bridges, whose new Christmas DVD A Whole Different Story is released this week, once said the more DVDs he releases, the more attractive he becomes to the opposite sex. 

Does he fear kiss n’tells? “Not so much,” he says, grinning. “The idea that comedians are surrounded by women after gigs isn’t the case. It’s more likely to be forty guys who want to have a beer.”

The comedian who kicked off his career aged seventeen reveals the pressures keep building as success increases. 

“The pressure comes from you being compared to your own material, yet at the same time you have to come up with new material. So you need the confidence to test yourself,   to try out new material in the clubs. But that can be scary. You walk on during one of these nights and the crowd go bananas and are recording out on your camera phones and then it can go quiet as they hear new stuff.

“You have to say to yourself you can’t always be good, you have to forget about your ego or you would stand their paralysed with fear.”
Bridges admits he’s always been a worrier.  I “think most comedians are insecure and they have this need to be loved. 

“I think we need that extra reassurance, and we go up on stage to get that warmth you get from a laugh. It’s a nice feeling.”

Yet, most comedians don’t acknowledge their need to be loved until they’re alcohol-soaked has-beens?

“True. But I’ve got all that still to look forward to,” he deadpans. 

Kevin Bridges is far from the easy-going, carefree character he seems to be on stage. As success builds, he acknowledged the fear also builds.

“It does because you have more to lose. When you’re starting out you have the element of surprise, where an audience can say ‘That young comic on second on the bill was funny.’ But now people come to see me and they’re thinking ‘This had better be funny.’

“That’s why I  do drive myself a wee bit mad at times with my writing. I get about a thousand ideas a day and some it is funny and some of it is nonsense. But then I go through it and try and work out what will be funny on stage, what will get me through an evening of standing on a stage being stared at. It’s the worry of someone saying ‘Make us laugh, mate,’ that drives you on.”
Bridges  may be a multi-millionaire with a plush home in Glasgow’s West End but he works at being ordinary, going to football matches, to boxercise training. 

“Your circumstances change, but you don’t. You try not to take it too seriously.”
What about when worlds collide;  he’s friends with comedy stars such as Jack Whitehall. “It works,” he says. “Jack has stayed with me a few times in Clydebank and I once took him to the Duntiglennan Bar in Duntocher.” He adds, grinning; “The music stopped when people heard his exotic accent. 

“And one of the greatest moments ever  for me was introducing my mates to Noel Gallagher when he played at the Hydro. Now, one of my great dreams was to have a beer with Noel. I’d grown up watching Oasis. He was a hero to me. But unfortunately I was off the drink for a year, with a week to go, and when I met him he had a fridge full of Tennents Lager waiting for me. 

“Yet, he was great about it. And on stage he dedicated a song to me, and congratulated me on being abstinent for fifty one weeks. When me and my mates heard this we were ecstatic.”
Bridges adds; “What was also surreal was he’d got my number from Roger Daltrey. It’s madness. Sometimes I can’t believe the life I have.”

Kevin Bridges’ next venture is likely to be a TV sitcom. 
“I’m fortunate to have a lot of options now. I can pick and choose work. But I’d want to write the show, or collaborate. Here’s the thing; I get offered scripts in which I’m asked to play a rough West Coast guy but I’d rather play an estate from Croyden or something that stretches me.”

He doesn’t have the option of taking life easy. “I genuinely enjoy writing material, in whatever form. I’ve got a lot in my head and I want to get it out. But that I’ve realised is this drive I have isn’t about material wealth or anything like that. I’ve got a boat and I’m happy enough.  It’s about the love. The endorsement you get from an audience and other com

Kevin Bridges A Whole Different Story... is out now on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download. Order your copy here: http://bit.ly/1PR9MPf