They bring their own challeges. A few years ago, Derek Brimstone asked to do the PA for him at the catholic club in Buxton.

Anyway - this hall - the room doubled as a church.

If you know Derek's act, you know that he uses facial expression a lot, so there I was setting the microphone up.

This caretaker bloke comes up and says - you can't do that!

I said I'm putting the microphone on the stage is all I'm doing.

he says, that is not a stage - that is an altar - you keep off that!

So, there I am thinking, this guy's crackers. But I just said, well people won't see him, he's only a little guy.

He said, your're not using that altar and that's final. he stands down there on the floor

And sure enough most of the audience couldn't see Del, just this disembodied voice coming from the front. Wasn't one of his best gigs.