Sacha Baron Cohen was reportedly dropped from the Freddie Mercury biopic for being 'too funny'.

“A nice, clean, nasty piece of work — that’s what I’m looking for,” declares our eponymous anti-hero at the beginning of Hitchcock (12A).

Parting is such bittersweet sorrow in Dan Mazer’s London-set anti-romcom.

Former soprano Charlotte Church and funnymen Sacha Baron Cohen and Stephen Merchant were among the winners at the British Comedy Awards in London last night.