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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Knowing me, knowing who's who of UK TV

The great and the good of the showbiz and media worlds turned up at the Hammersmith Apollo last night to see the second London leg of Steve Coogan's first live UK tour for a decade. Jerry Hall, Jimmy Carr, Rob Brydon, Kenton Allen, Jon Thoday, Tony Hayers - sorry, Alan Yentob - and a gaggle of other media darlings were on hand to see if Coogan was as bad as some reports of the tour had claimed - "I would rather jump on plug sockets with angry wasps in my mouth than listen to that dross again" etc. Of course he was much better than that, at the end treating the audience to a spoof musical number "Everyone's a bit of a cunt sometimes". That's the Radio 2 presenting job in the bag, then, Steve.

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