An aspiring gay Irish comedian, who was mercilessly bullied throughout his childhood, has had the last laugh after winning a prestigious stand-up award.Pearse Egan, 32, has admitted he still suffers nightmares from the constant torment that was inflicted on him at school in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, where he suffered homophobic taunts and physical attacks on a daily basis.
However, London-based Pearse has told how he recently turned a negative into a positive by channelling his horrific memories of being bullied into an award-winning comedy routine.In only his second-ever stand-up act in recent weeks at a competition for emerging talent at the respected Up The Creek Comedy Club in the British capital, he beat 15 other performers to be.