The BBC have reported that Matt Lucas and David Walliams are working on two new films.

Best known for Little Britain (although their Rock Profiles series for UK Play was certainly as funny in places), Lucas and Walliams are apparently developing a new project with Working Title (Hot Fuzz) while simultaneously working with Dreamworks.

Shooting on the US version of Little Britain is apparently underway following the resolution of the Writer’s Strike in the USA.  10 new characters are apparently planned, as well as cultural revisions to some current favourites in the HBO-produced series.

Success in any of these projects would be significant; Lucas and Walliams are now able to command audiences around the world on a par with the Pythons in the late 1970s.

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Just browsing the web the other day, I stumbled across the results of Channel 4’s 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches (2006?). It’s a good mix of contemporary and classic, and despite giving the award to Little Britain I feel that the rest of the table is a pretty good reflection.

In fact the only really contentious point is the presence of The League of Gentlemen, confirming that no one seems to know whether it is a sketch show or a sitcom.

1. Lou and Andy (Swimming Pool) - Little Britain
2. Petshop/Dead Parrot - Monty Python’s Flying Circus
3. Tubbs and Edward (Road Men) - The League of Gentlemen
4. Vicky Pollard (Swimming Pool) - Little Britain
5. Four Candles - The Two Ronnies
6. Going For An English - Goodness Gracious Me
7. Acorn Antiques � Victoria Wood, As Seen On TV
8. Breakfast - The Morecambe and Wise Show
9. Ted and Ralph (Drinking Game) - The Fast Show
10. Good Aids/Bad Aids - Brass Eye

Sketchcom?

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Despite its obvious role as a few links to repeated material, I’ve been a big supporter of the BBC One show Comedy Sketchbook.

But last night something changed.

With a barbed script from 5 writers (including Toby Hadoke) Angus Deayton manages to hold together a series of sketches from the BBC and Thames/LWT archives with his usual confident Basil Fawlty-esque disdain.

Even he was unable to prevent the closing clip - despite being evidently unimpressed by it.

At 110 quid a year, I don’t mind paying for a superb mix of television, radio and internet, a reckon that despite its compulsory nature, the licence fee is good value for money.

I don’t expect to pay it and then the same day my direct debit sends the monthly installment to the government have to sit through HALE & PACE.

They have no place on comedy sketchbook for 2 very good reasons:

1. They’re not funny
2. They’re not funny

I don’t even think I know which is which - but that doesn’t matter when they’re mugging painfully at the camera singing a “Northern Calypso” which tickled my funny bone about as much as the idea of a colonoscopy does.

There’s no reason for these utter oafs to be allowed on television in a dramatic role (they went on to appear seperately in low budget dramas) nevermind under the banner of comedy.

Plumbing the depths for Little and Large is one thing - Hale & Pace should never see the back of a cathode ray tube ever again.

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You won’t feel that you have any choice once you’ve sat through this - BBC News have announced that Mong and Bint’s James Corden and Mathew Horne have signed up to make a new comedy sketch show for BBC Three.

I shit you not.

Worse, the once respected television corporation have described it as: “traditional comedy entertainment show in the style of Morecambe and Wise”

Which is tantamount to sacrilege. What business do a moon headed clip and his fat mate who couldn’t write an original gang if he was possessed by Marty Feldman have attempting to be Morecambe & Wise?

Jesus, what the hell is going on here? What next?

This really is an insult not only to Eric and Ernie but to our sensibilities. Mong and Bint is as funny as Auschwitz, award or no award - how come the pair of nomarks have this particular gig when Vic and Bob aren’t on TV, when legitimate double acts around the country are converging on Edinburgh this summer to get their work noticed?

The BBC is letting us all down, not least Corden and Horne who are way out of their depth.

Demand your licence fee back! (Or just don’t watch it)