Well, it's not all that bad! And eventually, it can even be pretty good!

Highly experienced comedian Kevin McCarron’s show looks at an issue which, according to statistics, touches the lives of more couples than it doesn’t. For the great majority of couples affected by divorce, particularly if children are involved, it is a painful experience and in his show McCarron unflinchingly acknowledges that this is the case. However, he wastes no time on blame or recrimination; instead, he considers issues such as miscommunication between men and women, and notes how persistently feeling undervalued can  harm a marriage quite as much as, say, drinking or infidelity (which came quite a bit later).

While one door shuts (rather vigorously behind him in his case) another door opens; perhaps even several! McCarron genially traces his progress from dejection, loneliness and pessimism in the immediate aftermath of the separation to a qualified happiness and even, eventually, a guarded optimism (he will admit that some drugs were involved in the making of this transition). But of considerably more importance in encouraging him to move forward was, for the first time in decades, time and space to think. Also, a girlfriend, who seems to quite like him, helped him a lot, and, perhaps most surprising of all, so did a newly found enthusiasm for the novels of P.G. Wodehouse.

Throughout his show a number of topics are raised: children; rented accommodation; doctors; sleeping pills; teaching in prisons; tattoos; the Oxford and Cambridge boat race; travel to such exotic destinations as Singapore, Amsterdam and Gateshead; the rock band U2; museums; art installations; underpants; dinner parties, the behaviour of friends after the separation, ecstasy and hash, nightclubs, living on a university campus, students and academics, West Indian cleaners; Westerns, and British POW films.