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Stephen K Amos
 Stephen K Amos has been to the Adelaide Fringe before, so pretty much knows what to expect. Even if I didn't know this for sure it's obvious the way he conducts himself, asks as many questions as he's asked, and displays his knowledge.
"I'm going really well nice, and I'm and relaxed being here," he admits, and offer his take on the idea of our Fringe becoming an annual event.
"I'm not sure to be honest, it came about rather quickly. But there's an awful lot happening. If Melbourne can do it, Adelaide can do it. What with all the things you've got going on around Adelaide I think people can make up their own minds whether to come out.
He pauses for increased dramatic effect before delivering his driest drollest line. "With a sad reputation as the serial killers capital of the world I'd have thought the fireman's and policeman's games were the perfect event for South Australia," he says deeply.
Amos has done standup, he's done TV, he's done Edinburgh and all the usual haunts, and when I ask him about his show and how it might have changed for this visit, he reveals he's thinking more and more about something a little bit different.
"Look, I do have a lot of new stuff that people haven't seen, and also a package show along with Maeve Higgins, but I'm also doing a chat show, although we haven't fully fleshed out the idea yet. I'd be talking to actors, dancers and so on, and having a live fun sort of character.
"I did it in Edinburgh, where there wasn't any kind of chat show, but we made sure that it was fun and which gave people an overview of the Fringe. It seemed very popular..."
Does this make him the Michael Parkinson of the Fringe? "More of a Rove kinda thing - with a sidekick, perhaps a band?" he returns smoothly. "It's all up in the air at the moment. But I could get people in to re-enact a scene from a famous film, maybe a cooking person to make supper for everyone.
Our conversation ranges widely - and bizarrely - over such topics as diverse as trams (and the great Adelaide debate), and bananas (he recalls with no great enthusiasm that the price was exorbitant due to a cyclone last time he was here).
"I do hope they've come down in price since then," he says hopefully. "People kept trying to sell them to me last time, I was getting quite a persecution complex."
One thing Amos will most definitely not be doing this time is taking a visit to a well known chocolate manufacturer's factory.
"I don't know why it was on the itinerary, really," he muses. "There was a carload of us and we went on a tour of this chocolate factory, and met all sorts of people who'd been working there for 75 years. You could see in their eyes they'd lost the will to live. It's an experience I really never want to repeat."
Stephen K Amos performs in 'Best Of The
Edinburgh Festival' at The Gov until Sat 1 April
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