Comedian Stewart Francis shares the art of the perfect pun

Richard Fitzpatrick hears about the art of the pun from stand-up comic Stewart Francis

Comedian Stewart Francis shares the art of the perfect pun

THE Canadian comic Stewart Francis makes his money from puns. He’ll say things on stage like, “So what if I can’t spell Armageddon. It’s not the end of the world.”

His stand-up gigs are rat-a-tat affairs as he slings out the puns one after another, one of his most famous being about the tossing of a frisbee: “I was in the park wondering why the Frisbee gets bigger as it gets closer, and then it hit me.”

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