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'Puerile' musical comic calls it a day

Kunt And The Gang, the cult musical comedian known for his crude songs, is to call it a day.

The Essex-based act, whose real name is never disclosed, has released six studios albums in his 13-year career, played more than 2,000 gigs and is a minor internet star.

He has had two low-reaching chart hits: Use My Arsehole As A Cunt (The Nick Clegg Story) which made No 66 at Christmas 2010; and Fucksticks got to No 63 the following year. His biggest song on the internet is Jimmy Savile And The Sexy Kids, which has almost 500,000 views.

In 2011, he garnered some notoriety at the Edinburgh Fringe for affixing 'cock and ball' stickers promoting his show on other comedians' posters, sparking the threat of legal action. It won him the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award.

Posting on his website, Kunt said: 'I've decided to call it a day while I'm still enjoying it and happy with the stuff I'm producing, rather than wait for it all to go shit (oh, I'm too late, yes, that's very funny) and everyone say "look at that silly old Kunt dragging himself round the toilet circuit to dwindling audiences with his tired old catalogue of mostly forgotten minor internet hits."'

He is currently on a farewell tour, which will culminate in his last ever gig at the Proud Galleries in Camden, North London, on November 5.

And his last album, Blue ROFL, was released last month with tracks including Michael Eavis And His Micro-Penis, Jesus Died Of A Stranglewank and The FGM Calypso.

Kunt can count among his fans Stewart Lee and Charlie Brooker, who described his work as 'life-affirmingly puerile stuff'. Here is our review from the 2010 Brighton Fringe.