On his way to Sean Hughes's funeral, the standup thought of a new joke " but who's to say it belongs to him? 'Went to a funeral the other day. Caught the wreath." That's my new joke. It's be…
He was bombing badly when a lone voice cried from the darkness - 'don't die!' The standup recalls how " among a merciless crowd " he made one fan for life Comedians on meeting their hecklers…
As Edinburgh fills with a new generation of comics, the veteran standup looks back at the cabaret nights that started a revolution Related: How Rik Mayall and his alternative-comedy generati…
Comedy in the late 80s was a bear pit and Edinburgh's Late'n'Live was as tough as they come. When Mark Lamarr went on stage, the place erupted " and then he demolished the crowdMark Lamarr d…