From Jester To King XVI
By Simon Barget
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About the comedian:
Steven Bloom was born in 1969 in Napier, Kentucky to Carlos and Catherine Bloom, the first son of seven sisters. Steven suffered from learning difficulties from an early age making it very difficult for him in a normal school setting, but he found solace in the farmland behind the family home. He was eventually transferred to the Robert Duke Learning Academy in Louisville, a facility for demented kids, where at the age of five and a half, he cracked his first ever joke. In 1974 he drew his first hedgehog. In 1975 he was crowned School Joker Extraordinaire, an award created especially for Steven, which he won consecutive years until graduation. 1981 saw Steven win ‘The Midwest and Northwestern States Wisecrack Award’ for his ‘Two nuns in the bath, where’s the soap, does doesn’t it’ wise-crack, being its youngest winner to date. More sophisticated jokes followed, culminating in the world’s first successful patent application for the process of constructing joke, quip or witticism, claiming priority to all other claims in 43 countries to this day. Upon leaving the Academy, Steven performed in comedy clubs in San Francisco, from then he went to London, England, but eventually settled back in Manhattan, New York, where he lives now with his cat. He has been named ‘World’s Funniest Man’ by GQ magazine no less than 14 times. His sense of humour can be described as: mercenary, oblique, deleterious and snide.
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