The South African newcomer to the comedy scene and mining lobbyist tackles everything from gay marriage to Apartheid and veganism Gavin Lind is a brave comedian. It takes resolve to spend the first five minutes of a show inviting the audience to leave, but the South African-born mining lobbyist, who only took up comedy 18 months ago, somehow manages to pull it off. Lind has been on the receiving end of some pretty spectacular heckling in the past, so it’ll take a lot for this audience to top that, he says. Perhaps the most extraordinary heckle of all was last year at his Edinburgh Fringe show, when one woman gave the audience the middle finger while walking across the front of the stage, before calling him a misogynist and saying, “I’m glad you're f***ing gay”.

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