Aspiring comic takes to the stage - in an urn

An aspiring comedian has finally fulfilled his wish to appear on a comedy club stage – but four months after he died.

The ashes of Belfast man Kevin Dorothy were placed on stage of the city's Pavilion Bar on Monday while his friend Stephen Mullan read out jokes he had texted before his death.

Mullan explained that doing stand-up at the Pavilion’s open-mic had always been on Kevin’s ‘bucket list’, but he never achieved it before he passed away in December, at the age of 53.

‘Kevin had a habit of texting the most cringe-inducing jokes to all his pals,’ another friend Tom Sweeney, told the BBC.

He said he always deleted the gags, but Mullan kept them. ‘And do you know something? Kevin's jokes weren't that awful after all on hearing Stephen deliver them,’ Sweeney added.

Published: 16 Apr 2014