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Comedian Jon Richardson has announced he is quitting comedy to become a teacher. The 42-year-old revealed his career change in a video message posted on Instagram on Monday evening. Richardson explained that after taking a break from stand-up, he decided to pursue an alternative career path mentioned in a diary entry he wrote as a teenager in 1997. The career shift comes approximately a year after his divorce from fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont, with whom he shares an eight-year-old daughter. In his Instagram video, Richardson told his 187,000 followers: "I've...