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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.