ADAM Rowe tries not to let the finer details phase him.

The 26-year-old is quickly making a name for himself on the comedy circuit, particularly since his Jobcentre joke was crowned the funniest of Edinburgh Fringe 2018.

But the Liverpool comic only looks where his tour schedule is taking him for the next three gigs so he can concentrate on honing his material, which he regards as a constant work in progress.

It is an approach that seems to be working because his first UK tour – which he organised singlehandedly without a promoter or booking agent – was a complete sell out in 2017.

This year his 17-date tour has the backing of Live Nation and his profile continues to rise thanks to the hype around his online stand-up clips that have amassed more than 50 million views.

But despite the confidence boost, Adam reckons there is always room to improve.

He said: “You’ve got to find your voice. That’s the most important thing. You’ve got to figure out what you want to say and why and that can take a while.

“I think it took me five and half or six years to figure out what I want to say and I still haven’t figured out how I want to say it.

“I’m getting there but the most important thing with comedy is that there is room for constant growth. No one’s ever the finished article.

“People who have been doing it for 30 years are still learning and that excites me as that means there’s always a next challenge.”

His tour for the show, Undeniable, will take him to the Pyramid on November 10.

Adam added: “This year we’re lucky to have the amazing team at Live Nation behind us but it feels like a really exciting start to what I’ve been working towards as a career.

“I’m really looking forward to it. Manchester and Liverpool have already sold out and Warrington is selling better than any of the others.

“This is hopefully just the start and I’m really proud of the show.

“I’m ambitious but I also enjoy every gig from 20 people in a pub to 1,000 in a theatre and I’ve already done the Pyramid before at the Comedy Store night.

“It’s a great room for comedy so I’m really excited about that date.”

Adam’s success must come as a relief to the emerging talent as he packed in a maths degree at the University of Liverpool to give stand-up a go, inspired by Kevin Bridges and Jason Manford.

He said: “My attitude was: ‘I’ll give comedy a decade to try to get some success out of it – if it doesn’t work out I’ll go back to uni and sort my life out. I’d rather make a mistake at 19 than 29’.

“From the moment I stepped on stage I was obsessed with getting good at it. I’ve always loved comedy so I was bitten by the bug.”

Some of his family weren’t as keen.

Adam added: “I had one uncle who thought I was insane. He advised me that I was going to get a really good job from the maths but my attitude was I’d rather earn £20,000 from comedy and love my life than £40,000 in a job where I’d want to kill myself every day.

“My dad and my mum were very supportive. A couple of friends were like ‘Imagine if it doesn’t go well. Can you handle that?’

“But the rest were like: ‘Go for it’. In general my family and friends have been very supportive and whenever I have a show in Liverpool they turn out in droves.”

The show itself touches on that.

Undeniable is about Adam’s working class background, growing up in Liverpool and the ambitions and insecurities that have guided the last year of his life.

So do Adam’s ambitions and insecurities battle against each other?

“I think they go hand in hand,” he said.

“If you are going to be ambitious there has to be a humble side to you where you realise that you have to work hard and there are people more gifted than you at certain things.

“You have to accept that you have to put the graft in and if you don’t you might fail.”

Adam’s first gig was at an open mic night at Hot Water Comedy Club in June 2010.

He said: “I thought it went well but I watched the video back recently and it was horrendous. I don’t really know what gave me the bottle to get up on stage in the first place.

“I’ve made people laugh my whole life but I wasn’t necessarily the funniest person among my group of friends.

“Some of the lads I hang around with make you cry laughing constantly but I just did it and never looked back and here I am eight years later getting ready for my second national tour.”

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A year after starting Adam was named Hot Water Club’s Comedian of the Year.

He added: “It was amazing especially because every other finalist was a close friend of mine and there was a three-month build up to it where we were all taking the mick out of each other saying: ‘I’m going to win’ or ‘you’re not going to win’. There was a friendly rivalry and I was made up to win it.”

Other recent highlights have included winning best joke of Edinburgh Fringe and recording a one-hour comedy special at the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.

If things continue at this rate, Adam’s dream venue is Liverpool Empire but he is also looking forward to returning to Warrington for a very different reason.

Adam said: “I did a gig at a working men’s club in Warrington and there were a group of girls who wouldn’t stop talking so I really went in harsh on them.

“Then they found a video of mine on Facebook and put some nasty comments on it.

“I replied but then my reply went viral and then one of them threatened me with legal action.

“I basically told them to get lost and that legal action never came. I wished it did. That would have given me a new show.

“I actually think that’s why Warrington is selling so well

“Part of me thinks it could be people who know those girls and don’t like them but the other part of me thinks it could be those girls and all their friends who are coming to just kill me.

“They’ve lost the battle with me twice. If they want to go for third time lucky I welcome them. Heckle as much as you like and we’ll see who wins...”

Adam Rowe will present Undeniable at the Pyramid on Saturday, November 10.

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