CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Johnny Vegas on the buses is an emotional journey
Rating: Rating: 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, ...