WHAT happens when you say the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time?

In the case of North Eastern comic Chris Ramsey, he was shown the red card from Sky Sports’ Soccer AM show for what he thought was an innocent comment.

The revelation of the exact content that led to that banishment must wait until Chris’s show at York Barbican on Sunday night, but the incident has led him to ponder whether he might be “The Most Dangerous Man On Saturday Morning Television”.

“It got me thinking how many times have I done things like that; getting things wrong; getting the wrong end of the stick, so I’m now the butt of all the jokes in my new show,” says Chris. “I like to think the audience leave knowing more about me and my life, as I’m not a one-liner merchant; I just like to tell anecdotes.”

Newly returned to the nation’s screens in Jason Cook’s BBC2 sitcom Hebburn on Tuesdays, Chris took to the road on November 9 in his new touring show, looking to capitalise on the momentum of his twice-extended Feeling Lucky tour last year.

You may have caught him road-testing new material in two York gigs at Toby Clouston-Jones’s Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in the City Screen Basement. “They’re a great crowd there; they’re comedy savvy and they let you know if it’s not working, and it’s like a sweatbox down there. I love it,” says Chris.

“In fact I’ve always done gigs in York. I used to play the Black Swan when James Christopher put on gigs there and a while ago I had a great night with Russell Howard when we did St John’s Uni.”

Never mind the tour show title, Chris is not a dangerous man at all. Witness his audiences. “There’s a lovely mix of ages at my shows in York, which is very important for a stand-up comedian, and it’s a mixture of people that come, from posh people to people you stop to give money to,” he says. “I love playing York as it’s cultural, it’s vibrant, it’s a great place to play.”

This autumn’s Ramsey show has been put together in quick time, such is the demand for Chris’s services, both on the comedy circuit and on television.

“I took Feeling Lucky on tour for the winter, then extended it to June, and then went straight through to filming the new series of Hebburn,” says Chris, 27.

“Then I took Feeling Lucky back to Edinburgh, and that left me about a month to write and try out the new show, though I’d been testing some of the material at the end of the Feeling Lucky run.”

Hebburn’s success has given a further boost to his stand-up career, placing the South Shields comedian in the TV spotlight in his unexpectedly straight role in fellow comic Jason Cook’s domestic comedy.

“Me and Jason had become mates on the stand-up circuit and he said he was writing this sitcom for the BBC. He invited me to come and read for a couple of characters and I got Jack,” Chris recalls.

What was the other role? “I would have played Ramsey, who was even named after me and was written for me as a comic role, but Jason ended up playing it himself and I ended up playing the role intended for him.”

Series two is under way with a Christmas special to follow, so what did Chris learn from the first run that he could bring to his characterisation in the second one?

“I sort of knew more about how to conduct myself, not just acting because Jack gets more emotional this time which stretches me, but in terms of where to stand and hitting the mark,” he says.

In doing so, the wrong man in the wrong place on Soccer AM is now the right man in the right place.

• Chris Ramsey: The Most Dangerous Man On Saturday Morning Television, York Barbican, Sunday, 8pm. Tickets update: still available on 0844 854 2757 or at yorkbarbican.co.uk

Hebburn is running on Tuesday nights on BBC2 at 10pm.