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On the eve of his new Australian tour, comedian Josh Thomas talks about why he quit stand-up, why he came back and why he wants to fall in love again | michaelidato

Josh Thomas is unhappily single. "I got my first boyfriend when I was 19 and I was with him for two years, my next boyfriend for two-and-a-half years, and my next boyfriend for five years," the Queensland-born comedian says. "I'm 32, I've been single for a year and a half, I wanted to be single but now I realise that it sucks."

But it is home, he says, largely because the beloved John, who snoozes at our feet while we talk, is now too old to travel. "I can't fly him back home [so] I'm here until he dies," Thomas says.is hard to summarise. Today began in the recording booth laying down additional dialogue for his new TV series, meetings with his lawyer, a studio head and a stylist and then his interview with"My year has been ...

Landing in America, Thomas had only his suitcase, his Dyson stick vacuum cleaner and his dog, John. "I just thought I had all these new skills that I had acquired that were going to make it better, and that's not really how it panned out," he says. "It was, for a long time, really bad, and then I got really dark when I moved here. Now, I just have the exact same life, but it's different people around. It's good. It's a good life, except I'm single now.

"So it's about starting my life again at 30, but it jumps all over the place," he says. "That's the fun of stand-up. You're not restrained by anything." "Apparently they have a really nice theatre," he says. "I've never been there. Everyone tells me it's pretty and it was pitched to me as a nice weekend by the beach in a nice theatre." Besides, he adds, "I haven't done stand-up for six years [so] you want me to be doing a lot of off-Broadway shows before you buy a ticket to this thing. You want me to be practising.

The prevailing culture of easy offence is also challenging. "It's a scary time, if you say the wrong thing you're going to get in trouble," he says. "This thing of everyone on Twitter piling on one person for making a mistake, I don't think people like that anymore. That's just bullying. What people have done to Lena Dunham in the last few years is bullying. Hannah [Gadsby] ... it's bullying.

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