Comedian Frank Skinner's meteoric rise from Tipton Pie Factory - from £20 a night to a £20 million chat showOne night in the late 1980s, the broadcaster Jon Gaunt drove over to Tipton to check out a new comedy night at Mad O'Rourke's Pie Factory.
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