You won “Last Comic Standing” in 2006. What impact did that have on your career? Well, it just blew the doors off everything I was doing up to that point. I’ve been doing 200 shows a year ever since then. It definitely launched me into the abyss.

It could be argued there is a note of shared significance to both deaths. Both feel like reminders that the real divide, so starkly present at this Pharaonic sporting super-show, is between the powerful and the powerless.

The awful silence of this sepulchral place was presently , as we rested for ten minutes , broken by a posse of baboons , who having espied us from their krantzes above, came shoggling down to see what we were.

For some reason, I was wondering the other day what the female equivalent of pah chiu cheng (to masturbate aka pak ciu ceng aka pak chew cheng aka PCC) was.