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Micky D
 One of the nice things about the Fringe festival that I've noticed is that we get a good number of our city's finest folk returning for a short visit. So it is with Mickey D, who has spent a good portion of the last year overseas plying his trade.
"Oh yeah, I flew back in on JAL airlines, which is always nice, but I always get the flying legs the wrong way around," he explains. "You know, the nine hours and the twelve hours bit of the flight? It makes all the difference.
"But I'm glad to be back, I left in June. I've been gigging about on average about 20-25 gigs a month, mostly in the UK bu some have been in Europe. I feel like a bit of an old hand since I'm up to my seventh Edinburgh festival, were I've been hosting the Phat Cave as well as doing my own show. It's a late night hip hop show," he answers, before the question is asked.
"There's no secret to success; just be a recurring face there, get noticed...
He casts his mind back as we discuss the old hometown... "I was training as a teacher and got picked for the Melbourne comedy festival in 99. It was a pretty big deal, an eye opener for me...
"Adelaide, what's changed?" he queries for himself. "The Air apartments, I wouldn't mind one of them. Went for a run between Grange and Henley this morning - it was 36¼ when I touched down and I hadn't experienced that in about a year. Oh, and it seems like there's a bit more agro on the streets..."
There's a few things I'm definitely going to do while I'm here, he says sharply. "Get out on the mountain bike, I've missed the weather, and I wanna see some bad district football, the new boys on the way up and the old pros on their way down. Go along and support the Western Eagles. You know, district football? It's the greatest thing."
As it turns out, perhaps things have changed more for Mickey D than they have here. He tells me at one stage, he contemplated chucking the whole 'stand-up caper in.
"I just got to this point, where I questioned what it was all about," he says. "I just wanted to be more honest with my comedy, I guess. There's an irony in a show about wanting to stop doing comedy, but I was getting back to having fun with true accounts of me and my life.
"I'd rather just put it all out there than hide behind gags.
"So I wrote a show called 'Shame 101', which is just basically me expressing the fact that there's no time to hold onto shame. Share with people rather than bottle them up. There's no point in being embarrassed. It's a bit dirty as a show, there's a couple of accounts of stuff that happened to me hen I was younger. Throwing up and onanism, that sort of thing, but there's no point bottling them up!"
Mickey D performs at the Rhino Room until Sat 31 March
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