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For many comedians, the bane of their lives is that no one will take them seriously. That’s no joke it drove Tony Hancock to suicide and sent Spike Milligan into psychotic breakdowns.
Johnny Vegas appeared to be in genuine emotional distress as he struggled to set up a campsite business, converting clapped-out buses into holiday cabins on Carry On Glamping (C4).
That sounds like the set-up for a sitcom. It isn’t, though you’d be forgiven for supposing Johnny, a stand-up comedian with a drunkenly chaotic stage act, was just fooling around.
His mates all thought so, when he sounded them out. So did the fitters he approached for a quote to renovate one coach: They seemed deeply suspicious that the whole business was a leg-pull.
South Korean student Jong-Ok Shin, 26, known as Oki, was stabbed to death in 2002
A man jailed for nearly 20 years for a murder he says he did not commit hopes that new CCTV footage discovered by a BBC investigation will give him an alibi and clear his name.
South Korean student Jong-Ok Shin, 26, known as Oki, was stabbed to death in the street while walking home from a night out in Bournemouth in 2002.
Omar Benguit, 48, a heroin addict and petty crook, was tried three times for the killing and finally convicted in 2005 after a key prosecution witness, a prostitute and heroin addict known as BB, claimed that she had witnessed the murder.