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I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

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Jenny Eclair
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 16
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I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
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