David Walliams has been cast in Stephen Poliakoff's new drama - but can comedians ever play it totally straight? By Brian Logan"They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian," runs the classic Bob Monkhouse joke. "They're not laughing now." And in many cases, that's exactly the intention - few are the comedy careers that don't one day take a detour into serious drama. Back in 1952, before Family Fortunes, Mon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45PM on March 30, 2016