From performing in a bin to arm-wrestling rivals, the standup cut his teeth at a Nottingham pub's chaotic Just the Tonic nights. As the thriving comedy club chain it grew into turns 30, he remembers really letting rip From a "renegade, rundown pub" to a stately home: was rags to riches ever so clearly exemplified? When Darrell Martin founded Just the Tonic, he was "an unemployable young man, just out of university i…
