If you can't take a joke then go to the ballet

COMEDY, by its very nature, is offensive. The TV shows full of clips of wee kids banging their head off a garden swing or falling off a high chair proves my point.

Amid the hilarity, someone got hurt – and we laughed loudly.

My one-woman show contains harrowing stories about my mother's death, my own experience with child abuse, my brother's drug addiction and cancer survival and my scathing attacks on all r...