They cannot be serious: why comics tend to make bad baddies
One-time Blackadder buffoon Hugh Laurie was on devilish form in The Night Manager but it's a rare comedian who plays a convincing screen villainThe BBC's adaptation of John le Carré's The Night Manager finished on Sunday night " perhaps you noticed? It united the nation's couch potatoes in praise, with the honourable exception of Guardian reviewer Stuart Jeffries, who "couldn't take it entirely seriously", largely b…