Men Behaving Badly Reunion

The rumours of a reunion of top comedy series Men Behaving Badly started a few years ago, and recently Martin Clunes spoke to Heart FM.  Naturally the conversation turned to the laddish sitcom written by Simon Nye.

“We sort of nearly did it a few years ago and then Caroline Quentin suddenly felt quite strongly that she didn’t want to do it.

“Then they said would Neil Morrissey and I just do as the boys but that wasn’t the point of the show. It was always about the four of us, so that wouldn’t have worked really.”

Clunes admitted he wouldn’t return to the show, saying it still had life on satellite TV.

“I don’t know, maybe it’s a good idea to leave these things alone. It’s always on UK Gold or Dave or some satellite TV channel anyway so do we really need a new one?

“It’s been ten years since we did the last episode but people still like it, I still like it. It was a very funny show. I’m very proud of it,” Clunes added.

Men Behaving Badly was the top sitcom in the 1990s, and certainly fuelled the “new lad” cultural fad.  I’ve got them all on DVD and I can sit and laugh at the classics like “Drunk” and “Home Made Sauna” as much as I did the first time around.

Of course, these things do come to an end, and MBB certainly reached a natural conclusion.  Ten years on, if they did go back, I feel it would have to be without either female lead in order to change the dynamic, and with a different title.

“Whatever Happened to the Men Behaving Badly”, anyone?