Jim’s mate Dorian Crook would come on stage wearing a tweed suit and a cravat and tell one-liners. On every punchline, the audience would shout, ‘Fuck off, Toff!’ and Dorian would reply, ‘Why, thank you.’
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A year after that, I went to the Edinburgh Festival to see my mate Dorian ‘The Toff’ Crook perform in the Gilded Balloon. He just told one-liner jokes and I was in hysterics.