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Johnny Depp blames 'burn Amber' text on Monty Python

Johnny Depp has said text messages he sent about burning and drowning his former partner Amber Heard were a joke based on a Monty Python And The Holy Grail sketch.

Sherlock Gnomes review

This chuckle-worthy sequel to the animated Gnomeo & Juliet is daft and charming, but creative inspiration is running low.

Mackenzie Crook interview

Mackenzie Crook on turning down Johnny Depp eight years after suffering breakdown and deciding to quit.

My Mad Fat Diary: It's good to have you back

"Even if Johnny Depp was beckoning me from atop a hill with his penis... it would have to wait" Ah, My Mad Fat Diary, it is SO good to have you back.

Paul Whitehouse: the psychopath in me

In his new sitcom, Paul Whitehouse plays multiple mental-health patients - from an agoraphobic to an obese mummy's boy. He talks to Maureen Paton Maguire about therapy, heart surgery - and why Johnny Depp can get lost.

Max Dickins on his new show

"Johnny Depp and I have a lot in common. We're both scintillatingly good looking, former lovers of Kate Moss, and obsessed with Groupon."

Radio 4 launched us on Wednesday night into the inexplicably late-scheduled Nurse (11.15pm!), co-written and starring Paul Whitehouse. Johnny Depp once described Whitehouse, without seeming irony, as "the greatest actor of all time", and it's not wholly impossible to understand the compliment.

This was dark and enthralling comedy. It will attract faint criticism - what does Whitehouse, with his comfy Aviva ads, know of mental illness? - but it turns out that Whitehouse, without being quite as close to it as Jo Brand, had, during his Fast Show years, done a little clever research into mental illness. This show, also featuring Esther Coles as a community psychiatric nurse, is, essentially, all about bewilderment: the bewilderment of those on fringes who simply can't understand the way the rest of us think, nor why we should insist on doing so. It's deeply subtle, and the subject matter doesn't lend itself to LOL-itude, but it was a quiet (if inexcusably late-night) delight, and executed with only about four squillion times the sensitivity of Ricky Gervais's Derek.

Sacha Baron Cohen in Alice in Wonderland sequel?

Sacha Baron Cohen is in line to appear in the upcoming sequel to Alice in Wonderland. The star has opened talks with Disney about joining Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska in Through the Looking Glass, which will be directed by James Bobin, Variety reports.

Fast Show sketches: six of the best

The proposed return of The Fast Show has us reminiscing about our favourite sketches - from Johnny Depp's cameo to the posh cockneys' trip up north. Share your favourites below.

Ricky Gervais 6% less good looking than Johnny Depp

According to Gervais's own Twitter poll, the comedy star is marginally less attractive than the Hollywood heartthrob.