Comedy Cops Top The Bill
Daily Star|March 30, 2020
Police raid shut club screening gig footage
Jerry Lawton
Comedy Cops Top The Bill

Bungling police raided a comedy club that was posting old routines on Facebook after fearing it was staging a lockdown-flouting show.

Owner Paul Blair, 33, was sitting at home enjoying the recordings of past performanes when he got a call warning him his club was swarming with cops.

Twelve officers in vans surrounded it after someone who tuned into the online show – featuring comics in front of a 200strong audience – mistakenly thought it was happening live.

Paul logged into CCTV cameras outside The Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool on Saturday to see the puzzled bobbies.

This story is from the March 30, 2020 edition of Daily Star.

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