‘these characters are all a bit mad, but they really have each other’s backs’

‘You live in Elephant and Castle? You must be a gay man then…” So begins the roasting of the audience by David Ian, crowd-work comedian extraordinaire and co-owner of Betty & Joan’s, the new home of T

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