Fringe preview: Olaf Falafel

Olaf Falafel is Sweden's eighth funniest comedian and the world's leading authority on predicting personality through the medium of biscuits. William Gadsby Peet discusses time-travelling tractors and sugar jokes that leave a bad taste in the mouth

  • Your website says you are Sweden’s eighth funniest comedian, who are the seven comics ahead of you?

I was eighth the last time I checked – there are many great Swedish comedians plying their trade in the UK. One year I had somehow managed to move up to seventh place so I started to write some really awful sugar based jokes (see below) just to ensure I dropped back down to eighth again.

  • What is surrealist stand up comedy?

It is comedy that doesn't necessarily obey the laws of gravity or reality and can go on weird and wonderful tangents – I do routines about Ex-girlfriend misidentification phenomenon and also how your biscuit choices reflect your personality. Go into it with an open mind and you will enjoy stories about my pet lobster who doesn't like hide & seek because of the part where I say "You're getting warmer, even warmer, you're hot, hotter, boiling, absolutely boiling" – for some reason this gives him panic attacks.

  • You are a keen proponent of biscuitology, my favourite biscuit is a Chocolate Leibniz, what does that say about me?

A Chocolate Leibniz denotes somebody who enjoys being in power. You are probably the kind of person who likes to lift a flowerpot in the garden and pretend they are in the insect FBI and they've just busted an illegal woodlouse drinking den.

  • You wrote a series of children’s book recently, what are they about?

My first book Old MacDonald Heard a Parp was about a rather handsome bearded farmer (he looks like me) who heard a fart on his farm and tries to find the culprit. Each animal he comes across has its own individual way of farting which the reader has to replicate using their mouths plus the detailed instructions. To make a fart like a duck you have to make your mouth small and tight like the knot in a balloon and breathe in quickly. There has been a Christmas version and a follow up book which features a time-travelling tractor is out in the summer.

  • Favourite joke?

Jokes about sugar are rare but jokes about brown sugar – demerara.

Olaf Falafel will be performing his wonderfully titled show, There's No I In Idiot, at the Star Inn on July 14. For more information and to book tickets (£8), visit: guildfordfringefestival.com

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