NO stranger to controversy, Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown’s latest Bolton date coincided with a dinner being held in the town hall, attended by a group of Indian businessmen.

Council officials moved that event to a room further away from the bar as they said they were concerned about noise from the comedian’s fans.

As it turned out, any fears were unfounded. And it’s a fair bet most dinner guests didn’t even know that the self-styled rudest comic in the UK was even in the same building.

Chubby made brief mention of this during his 75-minute act in front of a hall with quite a few empty seats.

The audience members who were there, however, certainly enjoyed his mix of old-fashioned gags, crude observation and very crude songs.

To be fair, much of his material — although tasteless and certainly vulgar — was funny, but unrepeatable here.

Chubby, now aged 65, having been in the business for 42 years, knows what his loyal audience wants . . . and he delivers.

I could have done without the songs he insisted on punctuating the show with, but when Chubby was in full flow and in joke mode — acquired taste or not — he was very funny.