Rhys Darby - Mad Hatter Q&A: Biggest disappointment? "Hoverboards"

Who would be the last person you would invite to your birthday party?
JD Vance.

Who would be the first person you would invite to your birthday party?
Henry Jones Snr.

Favourite saying?
“Oh, here we go.”

Favourite record?
Great Big Cow by Great Big Cow.

Favourite book?
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Blue Lotus.

Favourite film?
Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Favourite author?
Spike Milligan.

Favourite actor/actress?
Sir Roger Moore / Emma Thompson.

Favourite musician?
Animal.

Most embarrassing moment of your life?
The poo poo pants on patrol burying incident of 1992.

Favourite food/drink/stimulant?
Anything tropical with a coconut or pineapple aesthetic.

Favourite TV programme?
Dad’s Army.

Dad's Army

Favourite TV personality?
Graham Norton.

Favourite item of clothing?
Skinny jeans.

Most desirable date?
21st of March.

Favourite method of relaxation?
7pm in-front-of-TV snooze.

If you weren’t pursuing your present career, what other career might you have chosen?
Spaceman.

Biggest thrill?
Amusement park fog flumes (even the crap ones).

Biggest disappointment?
Hoverboards.

Your concept of heaven?
A piña colada on the beach at Goldeneye.

Your concept of hell?
Replacement bus service.

What would be your dying words?
Oh, here we go...

Greatest ambition?
Being in a James Bond movie.

Period of history you’d most like to have lived in and why?
Victorian London because I like the fashion and the struggles.

If you weren’t a human being, which animal would you have chosen to be?
An Arctic fox.

If you were told that the world was ending tomorrow morning, how would you react/what would you do?
I’d be like “Oh, here we go.” Then I’d put the news on.

Your nominee for the world’s best-dressed person?
Alan Cumming from The Traitors.

Alan Cumming. Credit: Euan Cherry

Favourite term of abuse?
Nice one knob-rot!

Biggest fear?
Alien abduction.

Humanity’s most useful invention?
The tannoy system.

Humanity’s most useless invention?
The internet.

• Rhys Darby’s The Legend Returns tour comes to Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on June 11.