It’s incredible but true. Comedian Lee Hurst is the latest performer to succumb to “mobile rage” according to reports, after last week mauling the mobile phone of a punter who was paying him undue attention at a gig in Surrey.
Hurst’s fit was sparked by the winking lights of a mobile phone somewhere in his audience last Wednesday at the Stoke pub in Guildford. The ex-They Think It’s All Over pundit then unleashed the standard-issue “four-letter tirade”, seized the phone, threw it on the floor and flounced off.

Apparently Hurst thought the punter was secretly filming his gig. Police are now deciding whether to bring charges. 

All said and done, there could be less violent means of displaying your irritation with electronic devices. Take a cue from Richard Griffiths in The History Boys. “You should be ashamed of yourselves,” he told a woman whose phone kept ringing. “I am not going to compete with these electronic devices. We’re going to start this scene again. If we hear one more phone go off, we’ll quit this performance.”
Or Kevin Spacey to the owner of a ringing mobile during The Iceman Cometh. “Tell them we’re busy,” he said.