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Ricky Gervais and Marmite: the Reading comedian who does the maths on a jar

Ricky Gervais and Marmite: the Reading comedian who does the maths on a jar

When the 2016 Marmite shortage hit, Ricky Gervais did the maths: 'How can there be a Marmite shortage when one jar lasts most families two years?' He claims no strong feelings either way, which makes him the man holding up the middle of the love-hate graph.

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The first Marmite man was Rab C Nesbitt

The first Marmite man was Rab C Nesbitt

The OED dates the adjective 'Marmite' to a single 1994 citation. Look at what it actually is and you find a Sandwell Evening Mail review calling Gregor Fisher's Rab C Nesbitt 'the Marmite man of comedy.' By the dictionary's own reckoning, the first Marmite man wore a string vest.

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