"If you create this comedy character of wealth and opulence swanning around, people hate you, " he told The Independent in 2010.

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In 1997 Thornton joined the cast of the long running comedy series Last of the Summer Wine, as the character Herbert "Truly" Truelove.

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It holds strong to the idea that an empathetic and less than winning hero is the best sort of character for a comedy.

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Gilliam, of course, has a wild visual imagination and an exuberant sense of character, but the comedy is so frenetic it quickly cancels itself out.

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