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Comedian Hands British PM Unemployment Slip on Stage

COMEDY OF ERRORS

Prank disrupts Theresa May’s keynote convention address.

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The comedian Simon Brodkin crashed the British Prime Minister’s Conservative Party conference speech on Wednesday, handing her a “P-45” unemployment notice, before being bundled out of the hall. As a gaggle of journalists and cameramen—including The Daily Beast—descended upon him, he admitted that his name was Brodkins, but did not say he was a notorious prankster. Instead, he claimed he had been asked to give the note to May by Boris Johnson, Britain’s ambitious foreign secretary.

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