He walks around checking himself out, expecting everyone around him to be doing the same. Anyway, he says to me, 'the other day, I made another girl scream'. I said to him, 'what did you do, drop the iron on your mum's foot again?'" Cue laughter from the audience at a comedy club in Liverpool.
In a city known for its comics and its clubs, this scene is hardly unusual.
And yet it is different. Some would even say it is remarkable. For one thing, the club, which is held once a month, is reserved for the talents of under-18s. For another, the comic, apart from only being 17, used to throw punch lines of a different sort.
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