'It's like the wild west!' – inside Cardiff's heckle-heavy comedy scene

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In 2005, you could fit the whole Cardiff comedy scene into a small minibus, says comic Elis James: “I get very nostalgic about those early days. It was the pre-Live at the Apollo era so there was only a handful of comedians based in Cardiff and you could count the gigs in single digits.” Around that time, Rhod Gilbert moved back to Wales. “Rhod took a great interest in the embryonic open-mic scene,” says James. “You’re used to doing horrific gigs in the back rooms of pubs.

 

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