So I continue to wait for news about a return for Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s bloody good series Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul.

A great portion of so-called comedy “experts” seriously attacked the series in the press and online, and frankly the attacks were unwarranted, especially in light of Armstrong & Miller’s first BBC One show which really wasn’t all that.

Enfield and Whitehouse brought us Jose Arrogantio, the Mourinho-esque manager who ends each post match interview with a “vogue pout”; Bono and the Edge, a wonderful update of Reeves & Mortimer’s “At Home with Slade” in which the Edge points out the Bono is an anagram of “O nob!” and Bono claims to have made poverty, hayfever and even natural “history”; the Choclatier; Clive the Pet Geordie (pricelessly funny to anyone in the North East outside of Newcastle); and the immensely brilliant I Saw You Coming.

In fact I Saw You Coming is so funny I’m making it this week’s “Sketch of the Week”.

So what was the problem, exactly?  More than likely, the fact that Enfield had been off air for years.  I can’t think of another reason, other than, perhaps, the absence of Kathy Burke.

In the end, however, the series definitely deserves a second run; Enfield and Whitehouse are two of the most talented comedy performers ever, and if we don’t make the most of them now, we’ll miss them in 20 years time.

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