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Ben Miller interview: 'Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes'

Miller on starring in The Duck House, a farce about MPs' expenses, and sketch partnership with Alexander Armstrong

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

Ben Miller is wolfing down a pizza. I meet the comedian in a Cambridge restaurant where he demolishes a Margherita shortly before racing off to appear on stage in The Duck House, a new farce about corrupt MPs. The show is set in 2009. Miller stars as a Labour backbencher who wants to jump ship and join the Conservatives.

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