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Ellie Laine is a comedian best known for her sexually explicit stand-up comedy and her appearances on panel shows in the 1980s.

In the 1980s, Laine performed sexually explicit stand-up comedy in working men's clubs while wearing suggestive clothing, discussing sex in "graphic and earthy detail". [1]

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  2. A Question of Entertainment. Season 1. Episode 16. 14 August 1988. BBC1.
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