RUBBED OUT!

Latex shortage puts UK’s rubber-faced comics at risk

EXCLUSIVE! THE ENTERTAINMENT world was dealt a massive blow this week when, at their annual meeting, the GRFC – the Guild of Rubber-Faced Comedians – announced that a global shortage of the popular elastic material has led to a dramatic fall in membership. Home-grown rubber-faced comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, Lee Evans and Phil Cool – once a common sight on the nation’s television sets – are now in such short supply that industry insiders fear that the sight of flexibly-featured comics on our screens could become a thing of the past by 2030. “Like many others, we’ve been hit hard by global warming,” GRFC chairman Kenneth Murk told reporters yesterday. “Droughts and flooding in southeast Asia have created tricky conditions for growers of this versatile, strong natural resource, used…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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