As comedy clubs go, a cruise ship in the middle of a storm in the Bay of Biscay may be the wobbliest one I have ever been on. Waves crashed against the side of Virgin Voyages’ flagship Scarlet Lady as if they were heckling the acts on stage, who had come to entertain thousands of guests for the cruise line’s UK Comedy Fest. Think Edinburgh Fringe but with more water and drag queens.
As I boarded the ship, grey clouds had threatened to deliver what the captain described as “British weather”, but there were heartening bright neon signs around the vessel forecasting a week where we could “laugh our aft off”.
