Hosted by comedian James Corden, the Brits ceremony will be broadcast live on ITV from 20:00 GMT.

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" Yet none of them could top the category's winner, British actor James Corden from "One Man, Two Guvnors.

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French, 55, is set to star in James Corden's new BBC Two comedy thriller The Wrong Mans later this year.

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Co-writer James Corden, who plays Gavin's best friend Smithy, also picked up the best comedy performance award at the Baftas in April.

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The ceremony will be hosted by actor James Corden and will feature performances from Muse, Robbie Williams, Emeli Sande, Mumford and Sons, Ben Howard and One Direction.

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And Gordon Brown appeared in a comedy sketch with James Corden and boyband JLS in 2011 - after he was voted out of office in the 2010 general election.

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"One Man" has its own loose versions of those characters transposed into 1960s England, plus a goofy harlequin type in the lead: Francis Henshall (James Corden), an easily confused young man who has created a jam by employing himself as a gofer to two separate men at the same time.

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