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I am so much happier being a stand-up comic now than I was before,” Ben Elton tells me. “I never used to enjoy it at all.” ...

Ben Elton has said he owes his life to the actions of a headmaster at a north Wales school during World War Two. The comedian and writer's grandparents were German Jews based in Prague ...