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'Booed off in 17 seconds' " comedians recall their first gigs by Chris Wiegand and Anna Menin

Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she'd walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?I was on at midnight and did a show about a policeman giving evidence in court, after someone has given him a hallucinogenic drug. It was April 1982 and the venue was a bit of a bearpit:…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AM on August 1, 2016

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