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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.