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Phones locked away for comedy shows
Comedy fans will be forced to put mobile phones into a locking case if they go to a show by Florence Foresti, who wants to end the “pirating” of her routines on the internet
People arriving to see her at Paradis Latin in Paris received a pouch for their phone that locked until the show’s end.
