A comedian’s spin on current affairs with Neil Delamere
“I was doing a gig in Edinburgh,” he says, “and I bent over to do some joke, or play some character, and out of the corner of my eye I saw this advancing, shimmering golden pool of light emanating from a rather pleased-looking guide dog in the front row. He was doing a wee.
“There was a couple there. The guide dog belonged to the man. The woman with him got really embarrassed and brought the guide dog out — the guide dog was only in training — leaving the man sitting in the front row. So I said, ‘Do you know that woman is after stealing your dog?’ and he went, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ And I asked: ‘What’s your relationship?’ He said: ‘Oh, we’re engaged.’ I said: ‘When are you getting married?’ He went: ‘Never.’ I said: ‘Oh, my God.’ He said: ‘What can I tell you? I’m leading her on, like the dog leads me on’.”
