Josh Thomas: ‘If I could fight someone, I’d go big: Harry Styles. Or is Margaret Thatcher still alive?’

The Australian comedian on being tackled by 80 children, his nemesis and swapping bodies with Abbie Chatfield If you could change the size of any animal to keep as a pet, what would it be? Sometimes I take these too seriously, it’s the truth. Like, sometimes I get asked a question like that, and I answer it as if it’s real but you just want me to say something quickly. I want my pet to be soft. But all of the soft animals are already small. There’s no big soft animals out there. Like, my idea would be a woolly mammoth but they’re extinct. I have a puppy at the moment and she had an era where she could sit in a little swing and she’d just sit out there. And if I had a little swing with a soft, lovely little woolly mammoth with a little trunk [*trunk noises*] – that’d be just ideal, wouldn’t it? Do you feel perturbed that I chose an extinct animal? I’m very pro-unleashing a bioweapon on to the world. Who would you swap bodies with, just for a day? It’s interesting, isn’t it? Because you think you want a really hot boy’s body, because then you get to be really hot. But you’re only hot for a day. So obviously it’s much more fun to be a woman, because then I