Andrew Mensah returns and this time he's talking about how close he got to being a pro footballer and why being a teenage preacher gave him the skills to write comedy. He also talks about the sin he committed that took preaching off the cards for him and why he has an unlikeley love for Loose Women.

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Andrew Mensah is one of the UK's fastest rising comedy stars. In this Class clown interview he talks about growing up in London, his ambitions to be a preacher before going into comedy, the pressure he felt to exceptional in whatever career chose, how he watched as people who he knew went to prison and also how he lost a friend who was tragically murdered.

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Mark Steel is back for part 2 in which he talks corporal punishment, hating school, being expelled and bring us a couple of very funny stories about how he frequently got in trouble while working his first job as a milkman.Mark Steel is one of the most acclaimed comedians in the UK and host of the long running radio series Mark Steel is in Town. He recently released a book about his battle with cancer The Leopard In my House.

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Mark Steel has had an incredible career from his beloved radio series to decades of acclaimed tours and numerous books to his name. For Part 1 of his Class Clown interview he talks about early scrapes that lead to fights, having a car stolen from under his nose, his Dad's embarrassing behaviour at a cricket match and how he comes from an era where working class people had confidence.

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Miles Jupp is back and shares with Seann Walsh how he struggled and felt under pressure academically, reveals his biggest comedy inspirations and talks about how finding a tribe on the London comedy scene with a group where everyone was completely different from each other.

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The brilliant Miles Jupp (The Thick Of It, Rev, Balamory) joins Seann to talk what it was like growing up with a Reverend for a father, going to boarding school and he discovered his love for performance.

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Josh Pugh is back and this time the comedian and ex-England partially-sighted football player reveals how his enthusiasm taught him valuable lessons that helped him with his life and comedy career. He also talks about how he felt directionless at the early stages of his career and talks about how he came to find the inspiration for his forthcoming sit-com Stepping Up.

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The brilliant Josh Pugh joins Seann walsh for this week's Class Clown where he talks growing up in the Midlands, the hilarious teenage fantasies he had about finding musical success, his comedy influences including Stewart Lee, Lee Evans and a mad performer in Benidorm. Plus he reveals how being sent to a special school due to being partially sighted disrupted his school life.
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Phil Ellis is back and this time he talks his early film making ambitions which leads to a hilarious tale of him being arrested by armed police, he also shares what's the exact thing you shouldn't do if you get the chance to audition for Red Dwarf and talks his early days working in an air bag factory.

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Taskmaster contestant and Edinburgh comedy legend Phil Ellis joins Seann Walsh to talk all things boyhood, including the influence of his comedy hero Rik Mayall (and a lovely story about when they met!), why he was constantly getting into fight as a young lad and what it was like living in Preston.

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