The Righteous Heckler

‘It was not a great night out.’

Kieron Smith is clearly a dab hand at understatement. For the night in question – which Smith, the father of young girl with Down syndrome, describes in painful detail in a new book – involved grim Glaswegian comedian Frankie Boyle, a predictably side-splitting routine about people with Down syndrome being, well, a bit simple, and then, to cap it off, a front-row confrontation between Smith, his wife, and an unrepentant Boyle. Oh, and it also made the national newspapers.