Damien Slash (aka Daniel Barker) talks to us ahead of his new show, Übermen.

1. Tell us about your career so far. Are you happy with where you're at?

After working as a signed music producer for two years it eventually hit a brick wall with the selling off of EMI. I then entered employment as a mobile app tester for a year and then a viral video researcher for a year after that. With my last month's wages, I bought a camera and uploaded videos of myself performing original characters that I had come up with 5 years earlier. One of them was an A&R Man (a music industry talent scout) and this character went viral within the music industry (about 30k views). Thanks to this, I got some exposure, a voice agent and eventually an acting agent. I consider this point, in 2012, to be the start of a new 'career' in comedy and voice acting. Do I feel happy with where I am at? That all depends on how much time has passed since the last binge drinking session.

2. Describe your show in exactly 23 words.

Seven different sociopathic versions of myself from parallel universes collide and expand as they interact with the audience in a kaleidoscopic comedy cataclysm.

3. Why are you putting yourself through this famously stressful experience?

Edinburgh isn't a dress rehearsal and neither is life. In that respect performing Edinburgh Festival reminds one how to live your life. It's also a narcissistic, masochistic salmon stampede up a waterfall of shame, undertaken by adult babies desperate to be unconsciously reconciled with the parent who couldn't love them properly.

4. Any cunning plans to get more punters in?

I've heard there's an app that lets you walk other peoples' dogs. I propose renting a pug, dressing it in a kilt and putting bells on its feet. We then hand out, to the people it attracts, flyers that are covered in Nutella.

5. How much money do you think you'll lose/make this year?

I've looked at the data and I stand to make an absolute killing this year.

6. What's your weirdest past Fringe experience?

I went to Spank once and a man in the front row drank a pint of the headliner's piss.

7. What other shows are you hoping to see?

Roisin and Chiara: Wild At Heart
Brickhead
Aunty Donna
Joseph Morpurgo

8. If you took over programming a venue, what would you perfect line-up of comedians be?

I would hire the cast of 3rd Rock From The Sun to perform every episode from start to finish, live, without intervals.

9. Name the one person you'd rather not bump into during the festival.

Andrew Lawrence.

10. Why should audiences pick your show over the 1,700+ other comedy offerings at this year's festival?

I'm throwing in six characters and a seventh for free. The show is really six acts for the price of one. For ten quid I'd call that an absolute steal.

'Damien Slash: Übermen' is at 5:45pm at Pleasance Courtyard on 5-16, 18-30 August. Listing