Sergei Lavrov issues warning after reports that Russia's contestant was deprived of 10 points issued by AzerbaijanRussia's foreign minister has taken time out of a busy schedule that includes defending arms sales to Syria and criticising US policy around the world to wade into a growing scandal over the Eurovision song contest.Sergei Lavrov issued a stern warning over the contest on Tuesday...

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'Third man' behind the success of comedy duo also provided material for Ken Dodd, David Frost and Ronnie CorbettEddie Braben, the comedy writer best known for his work on the Morecambe and Wise show, has died after a short illness, aged 82.Braben, who also wrote material for BBC radio comedy show Round the Horne, Ken Dodd, David Frost and Ronnie Corbett, died on Tuesday morning, his manager Norma...

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Hadley Freeman meets the cast of the revived sitcom, which returns on 26 May

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Azerbaijan's Eurovision votes have been recounted on orders from the President after they snubbed Russia.

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Scriptwriter behind the Morecambe and Wise television showsThe scriptwriter Eddie Braben, who has died aged 82, was best-known for his outstanding 14-year association with the television comedians and . It was thanks to him that Wise started talking about the plays "what he had wrote – sometimes 26 in one day". Celebrities from other spheres were ready and eager to take part,...

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Comedy writer Eddie Braben, who provided gags for Morcambe and Wise and Ken Dodd, has died aged 82.

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The comedy duo looked uncomfortable on television until Braben came on board. But how did he turn them into comedy legends?In his memoirs The Book What I Wrote, Eddie Braben, who has died at the age of 82, reports a conversation with the Duke of Edinburgh at a showbiz event. When Braben mentioned that he wrote the scripts for Morecambe & Wise, the Queen's consort snorted: "I thought they...

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Video: Ricky Gervais has again revived David Brent, this time for the first epsiode of Learn Guitar with David Brent.

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The Thick of It, Veep and Peep Show writer Simon Blackwell on how the beautiful rhythms of Braben's jokes made him the comedy writer's comedy writerEddie Braben's work for Morecambe and Wise ranks among the best and funniest of any British comic writing because in many ways it defines it. Braben's rhythms are the quintessential rhythms of British comedy – the comedy of bathos.Eric and Ernie...

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