<img class="alignleft" title="Stewart Francis: outstanding in 'Outstanding in His Field'" src="http://www.theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/mast_image_portrait/mastimages/STEWART%20FRANCIS_kingwill%203.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="200" />We went to see Stewart Francis at the Derngate on Saturday night (12th May). We loved his one liners on Mock the Week and we wondered if he could hold an audience for an hour. We needn't have worried because he just kept them coming. He has a a terrific ability to play with words and deliver a peculiar view of the world. We were laughing out loud for most of the time and if we didn't laugh it was because he moved on so quickly we hadn't registered the joke.

With so many jokes it is nigh on impossible to remember them all but a couple we do recall was his story about being a member of the Canadian Dyslexic Society, the BFG. They had an international convention in Mali however half the attendees went to Lima and he finished up in Albuquerque. Another joke involved him looking up the meaning of the word digress in the dictionary and he then proceeded to go off subject never to return until abou