He may be reviled, but the highest-earning comedian around is this era's Tommy Cooper or Eric Morecambe … and a class actTitle: Live and LaughingYear: 2008The set-up: Is it provocative to say that Michael McIntyre is a great stand-up comedian? Certainly there is a mould of greatness that he doesn't fit. The outsider, the fearless truth-teller, born brilliant, but struggling commercially and personally because he ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:28AM on July 23, 2013