Tony Blair: ‘I tried being a stand-up comedian – I did one on Star Trek that was memorably awful”

Tony Blair once tried his hand at comedy, really, he was on stage last night with a former Labour party aide Matt Forde – and admitted “I was a character called Captain Kink.

The ex-Prime Minister did comedy when he was studying at St John’s College, Oxford – around the same time as he sang with his failed rock band Ugly Rumours.

“I did these revues in which I did stand-up and they fitted into two categories really, there was the first lot of them that were really dire, and then I did actually learn and got a bit better at it.

‘I used to do skits on TV shows, I did one on Star Trek that was memorably awful. I’ve got a terrible feeling I was a character called Captain Kink. If there had been social media, can you image, they could have put that on there as the Tory Party Political Party Broadcast, that would have been it.’

Again. CAPTAIN KINK. WOW.

Source: Chortle