James Acaster is due a revelation this week. On Thursday 9 January, the still fresh-faced comedian turns 40.
“It feels wild,” he says. “With the pandemic, suddenly we were two years older. I feel like, ‘No, I’m still 37, aren’t I?’ When I turned 30, I loved it actually, because in my 20s I thought, ‘Oh, I’m an adult now, I really need to know stuff, I need to understand the world.’ Then when I turned 30, I realised, ‘Oh, I’m never going to understand anything,’ and that felt a lot better. Now I’m turning 40, we’ll see what the revelation is on that day.”
It may be his following thought. “Ultimately, I guess I just feel lucky I’m still here. That’s good. Just gotta focus on that.”
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