Ben Palmer, 42, Film And Tv Director Of The Inbetweeners.
I wanted to be a journalist in my teens.
I dreamed of doing music reviews for Q Magazine, but I realised I was a dreadful writer. So I decided to be a film director instead.
I was a passionate prankster as a kid.
I went through a long phase of hiding in my baby sister’s bedroom cupboard and waiting until she fell asleep before jumping out to scare her, sometimes in a makeshift costume. I once even climbed onto the roof so I could jump through her skylight. It was incredibly childish but I like to think it showed “commitment to the joke” from an early age. She gave as good as she got, though; on a family holiday she filled my bed with dead prawns.
A life without laughter is a life not worth living.
I’ve always been a big laugher and I’m lucky it’s something I’m now paid to make people do. We don’t laugh enough in today’s world – people take life too seriously. Comedy is the only medicine.
Never be afraid to blag into your first job.
This story is from the February 2019 edition of FHM Magazine South Africa.
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