Wales-on-line reports that former Montgomeryshire MP, Lembit Öpik is to make his stand-up debut tonight:
Ex-MP Lembit Opik said today he wanted to see whether stand-up comedy was “like being an MP but a bit funnier” as he prepared for his first gig.
The Liberal Democrat earned a quirky image thanks to his romantic ties with a Cheeky Girl, interest in meteorites and appearances on television comedy shows.
Now he is hoping to turn the “awesome shock” of losing his Montgomeryshire seat to the Tories on May 6 and other political experiences into a new career in entertainment.
Mr Opik accepted the gig, at the tiny Backstage Comedy Club in London, after a friend who comperes the night told him: “People are going to laugh at you anyway so why not get paid for it?
“You don’t have to be a comic genius to see that my recent history writes itself as a comedy script and the challenge really is to see if comedy is something completely different to what I have done before or whether it is like being an MP but a bit funnier,” he told reporters.
Good to see that he is moving on.
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