A comedian from Budock is making his return to stand-up after losing a leg to diabetes in 2014.

Colin Leggo will be taking a humorous look at his surgery and recovery in his new show Bits of Leggo, while at the same time raising money to send prosthetic limbs to Africa.

After his first show, a trial of new material to be held at the Poly in Falmouth, he will donate any |profit after his costs to Penryn based charity Legs4Africa, which takes second hand prostheses to amputees in the Gambia.

Colin said: “It’s going to be a mish-mash of brand new material based around my new life as an amputee.

“It’s a bit of an odd direction to come from for comedy purposes, a bit of a unique perspective.

“There aren’t many comedians who are amputees, Adam Hills in Australia is the main one: the main go-to amputee comedian.”

Colin, who suffered from diabetes for ten years, found that laughter really was the best medicine as he made Cornwall based comedy videos such as Grand Theft Cornwall while in hospital for his operation.

He said: “It was ten years of problems. It’s a long story, which I now feel has got a conclusion.

“It’s quite scary, but therapeutic as well.”

While he was in hospital he was contacted by Legs4Africa, whose founder had seen some of his online work and wondered if he would help them with raising awareness and funds.

He said: “He discovered the leg blogs I did in the hospital based around the amputation.

“It was a fantastic coincidence he was a fan of my stuff.”

He said following his gig this month, he wants to put on other fundraisers.

“I want to get some big names down to fill a big room and get some money for what I think is a great charity.”

Following his recovery from surgery, and his performance in Falmouth, Colin hopes to take his show on tour, playing at the Leicester Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival, before perhaps bringing it back to Cornwall.

He said: “It’s all going quite well, I’m able to go back to comedy and to standing up again, in more ways than one.”

Information about Colin’s show, Bits of Leggo, can be found in the Packet Weekender section.