Playboy After Hours
December, 1988
A Tough Act to SwallowWhen we caught up with Stevie Starr, he was tossing numbered coins down his throat like cocktail nuts. Surrounded by 30 comedians in a hotel bar, Starr puffed out his stomach and spit the coins onto the table in the numerical order the comics suggested.Starr, a pale 25-year-old with the most impressive gullet ever hatched in Scotland, was in Montreal last summer for the Just for Laughs festival, an 11-night extravaganza now in its sixth year. On the bill were 115 acts from...
