From appearing in cider and milk adverts to gigging at the Download Festival and local comedy venues, comedian Jonny Awsum is at no risk of getting typecast.

Awsum will be appearing at the Bearcat, having played as a support act at the venue for Omid Djalili and Harry Hill in the past, and will be joined by John Whale, Windsor and Paddy Lennox, on April 6.

He says: “I think the Bearcat is one of the best gigs. It’s brilliantly run, and they have been doing it for so long.”

He said he has had some bad gigs at other places, but only really at corporate events. On one occasion he was placed really far away from his audience - so far the audience did not know he was doing the gig.

The comic made his way into the industry like a witty bullet, which he said was largely due to wanting to provide for his new baby-on-the-way - meaning he had to do as many gigs as possible to get noticed.

The Croydon-based comic is the face of the creepily hilarious Cravendale advert, where he is seen trying to fight off cats and hypnotised milkmen with a newspaper.

He first got into adverts when he was spotted by a testing director at a gig and asked to come along to a casting the next day.

He now has an advert agent and has starred in an advert for the Co-op and Savanna cider.

On advertising he says: “I just loved it. Working on set and doing something that I had never done before.

“One of the best things about ads is they have as much paraphernalia as used in a film.”

Adding to his variety of experience in showbiz, he has recently returned from gigging in South Africa and Romania and will be performing at Download Festival next year.

Jonny Awsum; the Bearcat Comedy Club, Turk’s Head, Winchester Road in St Margaret’s on April 6, from 8pm. Tickets are £13 for members and £15 non-members £15.