WE are of course living in a golden age of comedy.

Dozens of multi-million pound tours of top comics are constantly on the road, Live at the Apollo is the only way to spend a Friday night plonked in front of the TV, comedy DVDs are selling like hot cakes and you can't swing a cat without finding a wannabe stand-up.

But the experiences on the road of poor old Kevin Bridges have made me question whether we're actually also in the midst of a sense of humour crisis.

The world is full of jokes and also of people who can't take them it seems.

One of my favourite funnymen, I was in the audience at the Apollo in Hammersmith as the hysterical Glasweigan continued his A Whole Different Story tour.

Aside from a smattering of amusing interventions, this chilled out weekend crowd were happy to let the comedian do the talking.

But it's not been quite the same for the rest of his dates.

One chap in the audience at his Mayflower date, for example, was so offended by a joke that he felt it necessary to interrupt the show to tell the gathered thousands that his brother was disabled.

But the joke was clearly on the Government and not the disabled.

The hecklers went even further in Londonderry. A woman shouting constant abuse throughout the show even forced the comic off stage at one point.

The thing is, he's not even that controversial. I've heard worse in the Echo newsroom - pretty much every day.

Certainly he's more cutting edge than your other observational comedians, say Michael McIntyre or Peter Kay.

But we're talking house parties, technology and holidays, rather than changing the world.

There's talk of his meeting a dog named after Diego Rivera the Mexican painter, an hilarious skit about his ten year old self going on sleepovers and his proposal to kickstart the economy by raising the dole to £1,000 a week, which probably got the biggest laugh of the night.

A brilliantly sharp social commentary, but hardly scandalous.

I think we all need to learn to sit back, relax and have a laugh.

Which, after all, is what comedy is all about.

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