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Mel Smith joins the comic First XV

WE seem to have unearthed an unsuspected sociological and sporting themes concerning world-class comic talents with a backstory of skippering their school’s First XV before they headed to Oxbridge. Who would have guessed?
A couple of weeks ago, we added the late Bill Oddie to the list, the guiding light of the Goodies, having skippered King Edward’s Birmingham during his three years in the First XV before he departed for Cambridge.
And previously we had Terry Jones, one of the inspirations behind Monty Python, being the captain at RGS Guildford for two years before he w...

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