He beat Labour's Sarah Russell after second preference votes were counted as neither candidate managed to get 50% of votes.

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Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani also won the comedy performance award for their roles in BBC Three comedy Him and Her.

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With her tomboy glamour, she suggests a sensibility that echoes back to Rosalind Russell: the sardonic brunette, as incarnated more recently in Roseanne, Janeane Garofalo, Sarah Silverman, Sandra Bernhard, and Tina Fey.

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