“Bold”, “unpredictable”, “hilarious” – and those are just Lewis Schaffer’s words. Lewis Schaffer isn't in Britain as a tourist.
He isn't here as an asylum seeker or on business. He's a hostage... He was once one of the top comics in the home of stand up comedy, New York City, having extended runs as house MC at the Comedy Cellar, Caroline's and the Boston Comedy Club in Greenwich Village.
A short visit to London in 2000 went very, very wrong. Love and marriage and children - then heartache and divorce - took him away from his beloved New York, the greatest city in the world! Lewis Schaffer was dumped into a multi-occupancy council flat in Southeast London where, fighting to be a good dad, he is trapped in the UK.
Now Lewis Schaffer’s goal is to make the best of a bad situation – the British Way. “The British aren’t very friendly. It takes 10 years to make a friend in the UK. I‘ve been here nine years: My friend is coming.”