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My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review – a unique, bruisingly raw excavation of trauma

Source: Channel 4

“Mark, why are you doing this?” asks himself this in the opening moments of . It’s a fair question, and one that you can imagine the comedian and writer’s close circle posing to him before he embarked on this bruisingly raw excavation of trauma. There are very few people who would feel comfortable opening up on national TV about being sexually abused as a child. There are even fewer who’d sign up to create a sitcom aboutor 

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