COMEDIAN Milton Jones is known for talking nonsense. He’s analysing his own material and already I’m confused.

“People have said to me, ‘on one level it’s quite clever, and on another level it’s not clever at all ‘. I think that’s a compliment,” he laughs. “I’m not sure.”

I’m not sure either, but then over the last 20 years, nonsense has always played a crucial role in his streams of non-sequiturs.

Milton Jones’s on stage appearance is quite off the wall too - wild hair, wide eyes and garish Hawaiian shirts.

But all this combined with his cleverly constructed pieces of wordplay have helped the 52-year-old stand-up stand out on programmes like ‘Mock the Week’ of which he has been a regular since 2009.

In his new show, ‘Milton Jones is Out There’ which comes to Bournemouth Pavilion on Friday, October 6, we see Jones questioning the importance of his own nonsense in our increasingly divided times.

The blurb for the new show talks about Milton ‘running for prime minister’ and having a ‘manifesto of nonsense’.

But he says there’s still plenty of his trademark jokes and little sketchy pieces.

“With all that’s going on in the world, maybe I should be doing something more serious rather than talking nonsense. I seem to have a crisis of confidence in terms of: is nonsense of any value? And of course that results in more nonsense rather than less.’”

But Milton insists the show is more jokey than political.

“There is one pseudo-political joke, which is as near as I get. With my stuff, people remember the joke rather than the point.

“Though my aim with the tour is to add in a couple of moments of pathos, really questioning whether I’m on the right track.”

Milton accepts that there are some similarities between his stage persona and the real Milton Jones.

“I think most comics are accentuated versions of themselves, to some degree. I am, apparently, quite clumsy and I don’t approach things particularly rationally. I quite often see the other side of things.

“The differences are, hopefully, I’m not socially obtuse! I’m quite conventional. I’m married, I have three kids, a house - so it’s almost an escapism from normality.” I don’t have to be responsible. I don’t have to pay car tax.’