When, in her 40s, Viv Groskop discovered that stand-up comedy was her calling, she decided to kickstart her career with 100 gigs in 100 days. Here she relates the very worst " courtesy of a particularly sleazy promoterI had always dreamed of being a stand-up comic, but only in the way that you might dream of walking on the moon. You might love the idea and read obsessively about other people doing it. But you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07AM on June 9, 2013