Who would believe this is the same comic whose stand-up routines sandblasted away the pebbledash of 1970s tit-gags and racism? asks David Butcher

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"The first half of the set was delivered to complete silence. Then something happened... it was like someone had injected Dairy Milk into my face"

The comic was on crutches after an attempt to recreate goalkeeper Joe Hart's dive during a performance in Ireland