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Helen Duffett

Lembit Öpik’s standup debut – a star is (re)born?

By Helen Duffett | Thu 3rd June 2010 - 7:20 pm

“Thanks to 13,976 Tory voters for kick-starting a career I didn’t even know I wanted.”

-Former Lib Dem MP Lembit Öpik performed his first standup comedy gig last night, winning plaudits for his delivery, if not his jokes.

Julian Hall of the Independent gave him two stars:

There was a kind of bittersweet irony that, on the day of the first Prime Minister’s Question Time of the coalition government, the former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik was performing an open-spot stand-up gig in a tiny basement comedy club. Opik, it could be argued, has performed comedy in a niche environment on both

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