Police raid comedy club after mistaking Facebook video for live show during lockdown

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A closed comedy club was raided by a dozen cops after they mistook clips of an old routine posted on Facebook for it breaking coronavirus lockdown.

The Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool was swarming with bungling police in vans on Saturday, believing archive footage of a 200-strong performance was live.

Paul Blair - owner of the Liverpool venue - was baffled when he got a call at home to say police were outside the club, reports the Daily Star.

Logging into the CCTV he then saw for himself the puzzled officers. With the club having shut with much of the rest of the country earlier this month as the epidemic continues to spread, it has been showing archive footage online instead.