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“He’s almost incomparable to other stand ups, his peers are more from the literary world. Few things have come even close to the scope of his stand up trilogy, which may well have taken him to the edge of madness and back… Burns is the William Burroughs and Charles Bukowski of stand ups” William Cook, The Guardian. He’s the man of a thousand firsts, a bastion of freedom in speech in comedy, a thirty year veteran and one of the most influential and ubiquitously respected stand ups of his generation. Burns is an Edinburgh award winner and a prolific comedy monster. A published author, a playwright, produced over 14 live albums, nine solo specials and amassed an anthology of nearly 32 hours of live stand up. But it’s what he does with the art form that sets him apart, leaving comics worldwide speaking of him in mostly reverential terms. We’re absolutely sure you’ve never seen a comic like Mr Burns. Yet we’ve no doubt you’ve seen a thousand comics emulate him. And we’re absolutely positive that you’ve already heard countless stories about him. Like the time he was banned from the BBC for tongue-kissing a goat on live TV? Or when he outdid The Grateful Dead in 2005 by smuggling over ten kilos of magic mushrooms into the Glastonbury festival to hand out to the audience during his headline set? He was the first white comic to perform at the UWC in a post apartheid South Africa and one half of the very first white/Indigenous Australian double act in history!