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.

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.

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.