George Zacharopoulos answers our 10 Fringe questions.

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

March 2009 is when I did comedy for the first time ever. I did 2 more gigs that year and I was delighted with it!

So far I have been able to pack my job in and do this for a living and travel to quite a few places. I am happy with everything but like any person with ambition I always want to do more and more of it!

2. Describe your show in exactly 23 words.

Debut show introducing myself to the world: stories about my upbringing, moving to the UK to study and staying to avoid national service.

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

I could very well find myself sitting on a pavement, in the rain, holding flyers that have gone soft, crying about no one turning up... But I prefer it to having a job I hate.

4. Any cunning plans to get more punters in?

Begging.

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

No matter what happens, I can never be worse off than my home country!

6. What's your weirdest past Fringe experience?

I lived with a couple who had court orders pinned to the wall like trophies and who ended up trashing their own house after getting wasted on my rent money and threatening to kill me and my mate. When I left the house halfway through the festival, the fridge had gone missing and the dog was licking bolognese sauce off the wall.

7. What other shows are you hoping to see?

Jonny Pelham, Peter Brush, Nick Cody, Corey White, Dan Willis, Bec Hill.

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

George Carlin, Chris Rock, Adam Bloom, Michael McIntyre, Kevin Bridges and Jared Jess Cook. He was an amateur comedian from the north east that quit, only a handful of us remember him and I would do anything to see him again.

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

I think loads of people will think of me as an answer here. I would rather not bump into Angela Merkel, the German prime minister. Or anyone from the German Government.

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

At 2:45 in the afternoon I am only up against a lot less shows than 1,700 and mine is central, free and sold out in Melbourne this year where people actually paid money.

'George Zach: Greek Tragedy' is at 2:45pm at Cowgatehead on 8-31 August. Listing