Booze, bankruptcy, brain haemorrhage: the comics turning tragedy into laughs
A former alcoholic, a cancer survivor and a man who lost all his money in a Bitcoin crash are among the comics coming back from the brink at the Edinburgh fringe 'I didn't start drinking until I was 18," says Matt Rees. "That's quite a rarity for someone in the UK. But straight away, I recognised that I liked it " and I knew that one day I'd have to stop."Rees, who was born in Maesteg, south Wales, is making his debu…