I’VE watched stand-up since I was a kid obviously. I’ve always thought I’d like to do it and now I do.

I think I first went to see my dad [the comedian Mark Steel] when I was 10 years old. At first I didn’t get it. I liked some bits of it, but he was talking about stuff I had no understanding about. When I was 16 I got kicked out of school and when he went on tour I’d do a few days working with him, go and help him sort things out. I started to watch the shows all the time and that’s when I started enjoying it, when I got it a bit more.

I’m 19 now. I first went on a stage three years ago when I was 16. It was quite nerve-wracking. They were terrible jokes. I don’t think that set was great at all. But I just enjoyed it. If you go on looking to enjoy it then you’ve got it right, rather than if you go on looking to make a career out of it. It’s like playing Sunday League football. No one turns up to Sunday League and goes “hopefully if I do well here soon I’ll be playing for Barcelona.”

Comedy is a fun process, to work out which jokes work, which jokes don’t. But what’s more enticing is the lifestyle. It’s the perfect lifestyle for someone who’s lazy. I’m not going to get all deep and artistic about it. I can wake up any time before three usually. If I get up before three in the afternoon I feel like I’ve achieved something.

Is my dad an influence? Oh definitely. In the same way that if your dad is a builder you can go and do a few days’ labouring on the site. And from there someone will go ‘here’s how you do this.’ And you can work your way up to be a chippy. I wouldn’t do stand-up if my dad wasn’t a stand up. I’d definitely say that.

I think it’s a massive advantage to have a parent working in any game. I always knew that stand-up was a viable career which I’m not sure a lot of people do. That stops a lot of people taking certain leaps of faith.

My dad doesn’t give advice. He’s off the circuit. He does tours and all of that and I do the circuit and the circuit is so different. He doesn’t really know what all the clubs are. He’s not really with it in that sense.

I don’t really want notes from him. I think it’s something I’ve got to work out myself. If I’m onstage talking about being 19 I shouldn’t get a 55-year-old’s advice. Because when he was 19 it was the end of the seventies and the eighties and now it’s Facebook and things like that; things he doesn’t actually know about.

I think I have an advantage at 19. I can go onstage and talk about things other comics don’t talk about.

This year it’s just me talking about being 19, how I feel I’m part of this generation that for some reason is really disliked. But there’s loads of other bits as well. It’s not all message, message, message.

Hopefully when my dad dies his audience will come and see me instead. I’ll just inherit his audience. He doesn’t need to leave me anything in the will if he just leaves me his Radio 4 show. It’ll be like the monarchy. The eldest son takes over.

Elliot Steel: Netflix ’n’ Steel runs at The Counting House, West Nicholson Street (Gilded Balloon), 6.15pm, until August 28.