“Well, I suppose with my accountant’s hat on, I broke down the bits and pieces that make up a piece of stand-up comedy,” Val Troy FCA, a chartered accountant and former finance director, said as she recalled her first stand-up gig when we met last week. “The first element is public speaking; I’d done an awful lot of that anyway, so I thought I’d have no problem standing in front of a room full of strangers speaking. The second thing is, can I remember it all? My first gig was about eight or nine minutes long, and I made my…

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