Jack TIM MERRY Puts a Brave Face Plays on Things with It Pool Comic Lips

18 DAILY STAR, Monday, September 17, 2018 DAILY STAR, Monday, September 17, 2018 19 Pixie NO LAUGHING Pictures: MATTER: Jack TIM MERRY puts a brave face plays on things with it pool comic lips PIXIE Lott sizzles in a pink bikini as she soaks up the sun on the last day of her hen do in Corfu. Fresh from a cooling dip, the 27-year-old showed off her well-tanned curves ahead of her upcoming marriage to model Oliver Cheshire, 30. Kneeling in the water ‘ of her plush villa’s pool on the Greek island, the stunning singer seductively smiles for the ‘ camera. SMILES BETTER: Above, with Kerry Godliman in sitcom Bad Move. Below, in Lead Balloon ISIS LAGS IN BIBLE CLASS ISLAMISTRIGBY inmates tried to hijack prison byRANT PAUL DONNELLEY Bible classes by declaring their support for Lee Rigby’s murderers and Islamic State. “My colleagues couldn’t take any more,” Pastor Paul Song claims the extremists he said. “At times inmates openly spoke regularly interrupted his sermons at in the chapel in support of Islamic State Brixton jail in south London. and suicide bombers. He said the intimidation forced other “And there was nothing I could do NEXT time you’re stuck already know the whole thing’s a stand-up, like the worst possible fi nds Steve rather less restrained. pleased to report. I ask if he badly it could go. It could be the course. Which brings us neatly back clergymen out, while inmates were forced about it. They spoke with such hatred of in a tailback on a country mistake…” version of Jack’s true self. “We’ve been able to ratchet it up,” still fi nds it hard to get excited end of you.” to bad decisions. to convert to Islam for their own safety. Britain that it was frightening.” The lane, crawling along at What makes this confession so Bad Move’s Steve, a web designer, Jack says. by pretty much anything, as Mind you, some people who label “Once, very early on,” Jack re- intimidation allegedly ironic is it sounds just like the mess felt a bit gentle by comparison. “The funniest bits from the fi rst he’s admitted in the past. themselves comics, Jack feels, are calls, “when I was doing open spots, included open support for barely 2mph, here’s a Steve and Nicky are in. “Yes, I don’t think you were alone series were where we let him fi nd “Yes, I think people who get stretching the point in any case. I thought it’d be funny to go on the Islamist killers of thought to cheer you up. Steve’s the guy Jack plays in Bad in feeling that,” Jack concedes. that voice.” excited are f***ing mad. “We’ve had the emergence of this stage in a blue waterproof motorcy- Cpl Rigby, who was mur- The bloke who’s to blame, hold- Move, the ITV sitcom about a town- “Lead Balloon left its mark in many So is Jack, at 56, still playing a “I fi nd it hard to get excited kind of bucket-list comedian,” he cle suit. I thought I’d create this dered near barracks in ing everyone up, may be comedy ie couple who’ve optimistically re- people’s minds. character who mirrors his own because I know nothing is ever as says. “Someone who just puts it on funny character with it. Woolwich, south-east Lon- legend Jack Dee. located to the country and now wish personality? good as you think it’ll be – just as their CV. It’s like: ‘Ah, yes, I’m a don in 2013. “We’ve been talking about getting to God that they hadn’t. Nicky is “Yeah, maybe. It’s about living in a it’s almost never as bad as you foreign correspondent and a doc- Last August Mr Song was a caravan,” Jack confesses, when I Kerry Godliman’s character. “If you’ve made something that state of constant, quiet despair. fear. Excitement is just a way tor… and a stand-up comedian.’ “I realised within a moment of sacked amid claims that ask if he and wife Jane have any Returning this week, between was much liked, your next thing’s That defi nitely resonates with me. of winding yourself up. “And I’m thinking, well, are walking on that this was a terrible he was preaching “radi- plans for their 30th wedding anni- Wednesday’s two Corrie episodes, bound to be compared to it. “As you get older, you’re accom- “Take people working in you? What do you mean by that? decision. It really was very unfunny. cal” Christianity. versary next year. it’s a comedy that initially took “If it’s not quite what people modating so much more in your life comedy. They’ll go: ‘Oh, I’m You’ve tried it a few times? But by then I was trapped. But he has since been “Believe me, I’m not entering into some of Jack’s fans by surprise. expected, that can be an obstacle. that you don’t like. going up to Edinburgh! I’m “I’m very suspicious of it, “That’s life, you see. You can fi nd reinstated. this in a happy way. It’s like we’re A little warily, I confess to him “But also, remember, this is 8pm “Things that go wrong, or you dis- SO excited! I’m doing three because the real stand-up yourself wearing a joke that hasn’t However, a Prison Serv- doing it because we’re at an age that I was among them. on ITV, as opposed to 10pm on BBC approve of you realise you’re less weeks!’ comedians I know and admire worked. But you’ve just got to live ice spokesman said: “There when getting a caravan is the law. In his previous sitcom, BBC Two’s Two, so to some extent it had to be a able than ever to change them.” “And I’m thinking: ‘Are you are totally living that life.” with it.” is absolutely no evidence “I’ll be that person you hate Lead Balloon, his character Rick different creature, for a different Jack’s comic outlook on life crazy?’ By all means do it, but why They’ll have also made Bad Move returns to ITV on to support claims relating when you’re going on holiday. I Spleen was an hilariously cynical audience.” And besides, series two remains healthily sceptical, I’m be excited? You’ve no idea how mistakes along the way, of Wednesday at 8pm. to extremist behaviour at MURDERED: Cpl Rigby ALARMED: Pastor Paul HMP Brixton.”.

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