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| Impressionist Tracey Ullman dons grey beard to become Jeremy Corbyn | Impressionist Tracey Ullman dons grey beard to become Jeremy Corbyn |
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| Comedy star says Labour leader will surely be delighted to see himself portrayed in Tracey Breaks the News | |
| Hannah Ellis-Petersen | |
| Tue 24 Oct 2017 00.01 BST | |
| Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 20.51 GMT | |
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| She’s played an uptight Theresa May, a sultry Angela Merkel and once danced with Neil Kinnock in a music video. Now it is Jeremy Corbyn’s inevitable turn to get the Tracey Ullman treatment – and the likeness is uncanny. | She’s played an uptight Theresa May, a sultry Angela Merkel and once danced with Neil Kinnock in a music video. Now it is Jeremy Corbyn’s inevitable turn to get the Tracey Ullman treatment – and the likeness is uncanny. |
| For her new BBC series, the comedian renowned for her impressions will don a beige jacket, a red tie and some grey facial hair to morph into a Corbyn doppelganger. | For her new BBC series, the comedian renowned for her impressions will don a beige jacket, a red tie and some grey facial hair to morph into a Corbyn doppelganger. |
| Ullman will play the Labour leader in the topical sketch show Tracey Breaks the News. In the programme’s pilot edition after the general election in June, the comedian portrayed a paranoia-ridden May, while her version of Merkel lusted after the French president, Emmanuel Macron. | Ullman will play the Labour leader in the topical sketch show Tracey Breaks the News. In the programme’s pilot edition after the general election in June, the comedian portrayed a paranoia-ridden May, while her version of Merkel lusted after the French president, Emmanuel Macron. |
| Macron’s wife, Brigitte, will also be among the characters in the series, which begins on BBC1 on Friday. | Macron’s wife, Brigitte, will also be among the characters in the series, which begins on BBC1 on Friday. |
| Tracey Breaks the News is driven by current affairs, and Ullman has spoken of the comedy to be found in “the world’s current terrifying doom spiral”. | Tracey Breaks the News is driven by current affairs, and Ullman has spoken of the comedy to be found in “the world’s current terrifying doom spiral”. |
| She said she could not wait to play “a certain Labour leader, who we imagine has a marvellous sense of humour and will no doubt be delighted to see himself depicted by a middle-aged woman”. | She said she could not wait to play “a certain Labour leader, who we imagine has a marvellous sense of humour and will no doubt be delighted to see himself depicted by a middle-aged woman”. |
| “Please don’t shave your beard off, Jeremy – we’ve just had one made,” she added. | “Please don’t shave your beard off, Jeremy – we’ve just had one made,” she added. |
| Tracey Ullman | |
| Comedy | |
| (Television & radio) | |
| Jeremy Corbyn | |
| BBC One | |
| BBC | |
| Television industry | |
| news | |
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