Chris McCausland - 7 Strikes

During his life Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times. That's just mental! How can you even compete with a story like that?... And what's the bloody point.

Fresh from supporting Michael Mcintyre on his warm up dates and taking his third trip to the festival, this time to the Pleasance Courtyard – Below, the award-winning Scouse comedian, takes a hilarious look at the eventfulness of life amidst Roy’s incredible story.

Roy Cleaveland Sullivan holds the official Guinness World Record for the number of times anybody has been struck by lightning. He was struck 7 times between 1942 and 1977 without dying; the sheer odds of this happening to a person are utterly mind boggling. In fact with Roy's life taken as the most eventful life that there has ever been, Chris takes a look at just how eventful normal life actually is in the grand scheme of things. Chris sees Roy's is an unbelievable story that just needs telling, and until that has been done everything else just seems a bit dull and pointless by comparison.

Chris, 32, has also had a life of extreme – He has a degenerative eye condition known as Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) which from birth has gradually led to him becoming blind. Most of his useful site went in the years that surrounded his time at University, losing any last bit of vision he had of a night time and becoming all to prone to surprise attacks from stealthy lamp posts. In fact Chris is a huge football fan and continued to play 11-aside matches up until about the age of 18 when he put himself in hospital with concussion and almost killed an opposing player; in hindsight maybe he should have stopped playing a few years’ earlier. He moved from Liverpool to Surbiton in 1996 to study Software Engineering and for a while worked as a computer programmer before his deteriorating eyesight caused him to knock it all on the head rather than continue as the designer of the world's ugliest web sites. It was whilst working at a call centre that Chris first gave stand-up a go in the summer of 2003 and it was the very nature of telesales work that gave him the determination with comedy that saw him go fulltime in less than two years.

RP is hereditary and has a 50% chance of being passed on – both his mum and sister suffer from it. This condition has never stopped him pursuing his stand up career and unusually he chooses to talk about his disability on stage only moderately, instead priding himself on the originality and variety of his material... after all to use a simile, what would be more boring than a fat bloke doing fat jokes for an hour.

TV wise he performed live on the most recent series of the Comedy Store TV show and has done a fair bit of kid’s telly, playing the part of Rudi the Market Trader on the Cbeebies and BBC2 show ‘Me Too!’. They filmed a massive 150 episodes of this and during filming Chris resided up in Scotland.