Josh Berry has been thinking about love recently. He’s due to get married later this year, which he is looking forward to. He’s also made it the focus of his latest stand-up special, Best Man, which centres on the discomfort many men feel when it comes to using the L word in their friendships.

“A couple of years ago, I was my best friend’s best man,” Berry says on a video call from his flat in London. “And I noticed how difficult I found it, to tell him that I loved him, even though I love him enormously. He’s my best mate and has been since I was 13. I noticed how uncomfortable he felt receiving that as well, which made me think that there’s something in this, there’s a show in this.”

One of Berry’s running gags during the Best Man tour was to pick two friends out of the crowd, bring them on stage and ask them to say that they love each other in front of loads of strangers.

“Men are often so scared of it!” Berry says. “But what’s the fear? The show was a narrative about me kind of coming to terms with those feelings and ultimately being able to express them. We can say it after 10 pints or say it in a silly voice.”

Alongside interrogating the male condition and being a very funny stand-up, Berry is also a superb mimic. He got his break by uploading videos where he impersonated famous tennis players. In fact, come Wimbledon, you’ll likely see him interviewing the players as themselves. His Andy Murray is uncanny, down to the droll turn of phrase. Close your eyes and that might as well be Novak Djokovic. John McEnroe tried to deny Berry’s accuracy, but it was a perfect McEnroe, and he knew it.

“Weirdly, as a 16-year-old, I started to get invited to Wimbledon to do impressions, which was great, but then I went to university and I felt like comedy maybe wasn’t a viable career,” Berry says. “I decided to give it a proper go for a year after I graduated and I managed to work my way up from there. At the start it’s rough. You’re not good at it and there’s so much self-doubt involved, but it does get easier… eventually.”

Away from the stage, Berry has been experimenting a bit with his personal style. “I bought a jacket recently, I call it my ‘cool guy’ jacket, which I was certain would make me look like Jacob Elordi. It turned out to be a lie, but I do like it. I’m also being fed a lot of stuff about Jude Law in The Talented Mr Ripley, so maybe that can be my summer look?

“Apart from that,” he adds, “I’ve been trying to spend more time with people and prioritise social connection, rather than being very serious and inside and worried about writing jokes the whole time.”