It was not a bad weekend for Matt Forde. On Saturday he played a packed Bloomsbury Theatre, on Sunday ITV1 screened him making King Charles chuckle at the Royal Variety Performance. And, maybe, best of all, his beloved Nottingham Forest got into Champions League contention by beating Aston Villa.
The skilful satirist certainly deserves some good news. As Forde explained at the start of his End Of An Era show at the Bloomsbury he was diagnosed with spinal cancer in summer 2023. After extensive, excruciating treatment he now has a stick, a colostomy bag and erectile dysfunction. But the main thing is he is cancer-free.
