Martin Cassidy
Date of birth: 30-11-1965Date of death: 08-01-2009
He made the final of the 2002 City Life Comedian Of The Year competition and ran his own club in Blackburn, Lock n Load.
He was found dead in his home in January 2008, at the age of 42. A subsequent inquest found that he had accidentally asphyxiated on laughing gas, which he was inhaling while watching pornography on his laptop.