The Have I Got News for You star is not "temperamentally suited" to standup but the artform's audience has changedThere are macho myths surrounding standup comedy, and initiation rites uncommon to any other artform. A standup isn't just a joker, storyteller or philosopher. He or she is meant to be a gunslinger too, ever ready to shoot down an upstart heckle from the wag in row P. To a comic, a bruising encounter with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:20AM on May 23, 2014