An aspiring comedian finally fulfilled his wish to appear on a comedy
club stage – four months after he died. Kevin Dorothy, 53, who died in
December, had wanted to take part in the
comedy night at Belfast's Pavilion Bar.
On Monday night, one of his friends, Stephen Mullan, took to the stage
at the
Ormeau Road venue complete with Kevin's ashes in an urn. The routine
consisted of jokes Kevin had texted to Stephen and other friends.
"Kevin had a habit of texting the most cringe-inducing jokes to all his
pals," said another of Kevin's friends, Tom Sweeney. "I always read
them, groaned and deleted them right away - they were awful.
Stephen, however, kept them - five years' worth.
"And that's what the audience
was treated to. And do you know something? Kevin's jokes weren't that awful after all on
hearing Stephen deliver them. Nobody had seen anything like it.
You hear about comedians dying on stage.
Well, Kevin jumped the gun."
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