After a brief run as a columnist for "Time Out" magazine, he embarked on the "Lose Your Comic Virginity" tour in 1989. At this time he was how being managed by Jon Thoday's fledgling Avalon Entertainment Ltd. The tour culminated in a show at the Dominion Theatre in London, the climax of which was an illusion in which he appeared from the rear of the auditorium wearing a kilt and a huge plastic phallus from which he proceeded to spray the audience.