Remember When James Acaster's Girlfriend Dumped Him for Mr. Bean?

Remember When James Acaster's Girlfriend Dumped Him for Mr. Bean?

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James Acaster is a British comedian and one of the top-five all-time favorite Taskmaster guests. He’s fantastic. We’ve talked about him before, in the way that he thumbed his nose at Ricky Gervais types ; about his terrible experience on the Great British Bake-Off , and even that episode of his food podcast where Paul Rudd confessed that he doesn’t like condiments . Weird .

One of my other favorite James Acaster stories — relayed in his stand-up special Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 — was about how his girlfriend broke up with him, and a year later, he was reading the papers and learned that she had left him for … Rowan Atkinson. “I got left for Mr. Bean. No one else in the