The comedystar attended Donnington Junior School and won a scholarship to the City of Oxford High School for Boys, which is now Oxford University History Faculty building, in George Street.
Jerry Lewis, the US comedystar of the 1950s and 60s, who later poured his efforts into raising money for muscular dystrophy research, will get a special tribute at this year's event.
Channing Tatum certainly has pull in the right project and Melissa McCarthy is one smash away from being the first breakout comedystar since Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn nearly a decade ago.