Martin Cassidy
Date of birth: 30-11-1965Date of death: 08-01-2009
Martin Cassidy started out on the North-West open mike circuit in around 1999, having been inspired by watching Tony Hancock and Les Dawson.
Read MoreHe made the final of the 2002 City Life Comedian Of The Year competition and ran his own club in Blackburn, Lock n Load.
He was found dead in his home in January 2008, at the age of 42. A subsequent inquest found that he had accidentally asphyxiated on laughing gas, which he was inhaling while watching pornography on his laptop.