Best known as Don Danbury from BBC3’s cult hit sitcom How Not To Live Your Life and Johnny Two Hats from The Mighty Boosh, Dan Clark is back on the road with his critically acclaimed stand-up show - Me, My Selfie & I – about love, death and crushing loneliness.

When they get to a certain age, some comedians will inevitably do a show about, well, getting to a certain age. For Dan Clark, his looming number is 40, the landmark where life was previously said to begin but which these days prompts reactions in the recipient as varied as a calm shrug of the shoulders to sheer panic.

Clark’s new touring show, Me, My Selfie And I, takes stock of his own particular concerns with that number. “It’s partly about not being a genuine man of the age that I am.

I’m 40 next year and I can’t grow a beard. Well, I can grow a d’Artagnan-like little feature that you’d put on the mantelpiece. I may be misremembering because I was a kid, but I’m sure my dad was more of a man at that age. But I have progressed in some ways recently, and I’m relieved that I feel a little bit more like a grown-up.”

The rise in Clark’s sense that he may actually be more of an adult now comes partly from being in a serious relationship for the first time in over a decade.

This, though, presents its own worries. “When it comes to thinking about having kids, maybe I’m just desperately putting off things that I’m scared of. I know someone who has a dog that he treats very much like a son. Obviously babies are cute and there’s the wow factor about how amazing it all is, but they don’t speak so you don’t know what’s going on and why they’re unhappy. The lack of sleep terrifies me and the constant attention you have to give them.”

Clark has constructed an intriguing if potentially impractical plan to get round all of this. “I think I’d like to adopt but I’d still like to have my own blood, so maybe I’ll have a child, give them away and then adopt them back at the age of four. That way, I get the kudos of having adopted a child, it’s still actually mine and I’ve missed out on the really hard bit. I’m just trying to find the right girl who would let me do that. And then there are the adoption authorities . . . ”

Dan will be in Swindon on Saturday, Ocotber 31 at Swindon Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Towsn. For more detials call 01793 524481