FYI — Mooney does a KILLER Malcolm Turnbull impression.

They’re not as bad as rock stars, but according to one of Australia’s most loved comedians, Lawrence Mooney, they’re not far off.

“If there’s a bunch of you and you decide to have a quiet night, no one will let you do that,” said the funny man, who happily recounted some of his wildest nights for news.com.au.

“Fleety (Greg Fleet) and I and Damian Callinan were watching the FA Cup one night. We got a little carried away in a hotel room in Wagga Wagga. We destroyed a bin and chair, set a curtain on fire and did some other stuff. We were just kind of goading one another and getting pretty pissed and overexcited.

“In the morning, Fleety had to leave early and obviously we’d woken up the hotel owners and so I came clean and told them what we’d done and the woman said, ‘You people from Melbourne are nice people so we won’t be charging you. All I want to say is that I’m really disappointed.’ That was worse than actually being charged for the damage.

“When you’re with comedians, you’re just trying to show off and get laughs from each other, they’re the best laughs.”

To be fair, Mooney’s story about Fleet is nowhere near as shocking as some of those that Fleet himself revealed in his recent book, These Things Happen.

Another person who Mooney’s shared plenty of laughs with over the years is Fiona O’Loughlin.

“We’ve been on the road together blind and we’ve been on the road together completely sober,” said Mooney of his comedy pal, who has been quite open about her battle with the bottle in the past.

“One of our biggest benders was when we were in LA for Last Comic Standing in 2007. We went back to the hotel room and in American minibars they not only have the fridge stocked but they also have a cupboard with bottles lined up. There might be 20 or 30 bottles of booze.

Fiona O’Loughlin is now happy and healthy according to Mooney.Source:Supplied

“We just destroyed this minibar. We ended up legless and it was one of the most fun nights of all time.

“O’Loughlin wakes up the next morning and says, ‘What are you doing in my room? Why are you in my bed?’ And I said, ‘OK, it’s MY room and it’s MY bed and you passed out.’ And I said, ‘By the way, I only took your boots off and I didn’t have a look, OK?’”

Mooney is about to hit the road once again but he’s adamant his partying days are behind him.

“I don’t have the stamina anymore,” he said.

In his new stand-up show, Surely Not, the host of ABC’s Dirty Laundry Live takes the audience on a sort of road trip about life and death.

It’s based on the events that took place when he and his brothers went overseas together after the death of their uncle Harry.

“It occurred to me that essentially we’re all going to die and we all ignore the fact and we put it off, but it’s coming for all of us,” said Mooney.

Was it hard to find humour in death though?

“Comedy uses a lot of analogies from death,” said Mooney.

“Comedians die if they don’t get a laugh on stage. If they do, they kill. It’s all wound up in death. So I didn’t find it too difficult finding laughs in it, because life is essentially quite absurd.”

Lawrence Mooney will start touring Surely Not! in October. Check out the tour dates here.