Comedy profile: Dan Atkinson
Having considered The Credit Crunch and Other Biscuits at Edinburgh last year, this manic standup is contemplating Death By a Thousand Pricks at this summer's festivalThe story so far: Dan Atkinson is a pretty amiable sort of bloke. He's earnest, chatty and intensely animated on stage; warm, droll and ever so serious about comedy off it. While his stage style (sartorial and otherwise) charms the audience by consisten…