ITV have revealed their Autumn television line up, with Harry Hill and Al Murray both returning to Saturday evenings.

The two very different standup acts bookend a new season of television starting in September with the new variety show For One Night Only vying for press attention against The X Factor.

ITV have got the big guns out, and further demarkating Saturday nights as commercial television territory for that period of the year when the BBC don’t have Doctor Who on.

The big news of course is the return of QC favourites Al Murray and Harry Hill.  Harry Hill’s TV Burp is easily the most consistently funny comedy show on television, while Al Murray’s Happy Hour is a marvellous update of the Dame Edna Experience format.

Not before time, give those two men a raise and time at the bar please!

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So it was with a tearful eye from laughing too much that I watched Al Murray introduce Queen + Paul Rodgers last week, and it became apparent that I wouldn’t be watching The Pub Landlord on television for a long time.

It has been a great series, a bit more assured than the first, and while certain rants and observations are retrieved from a cellar of stock dialogue (see what I did there) – for instance you can find Murray’s comments on “Football Isn’t As Good As It Used To Be” in his book – the guests have been great, the musical acts have been reasonably good, and Murray himself has been excellent, shining in particular when interviewing various sexy female guests and demonstrating his unparalleled audience interaction.

We’ll  miss him, but hopefully he’ll be back next year…

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Causing a certain amount of surprise and a definite source of amusing on Christmas Day was Al Murray’s The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense.

I went off comedy books a few years ago when I was heartily disappointed by Wayne’s World, and hadn’t really recovered – Murray’s tome has restored my faith in the genre, however.

The character has so much about him, from his sexism and nationalism on one hand to depths such as divorce and insurance scams on the other that it is impossible not to love what is a mirror image of the type of pub landlord that we’ve all encountered at some point.

Covering such issues as running a pub, a page representing how the introduction would look if Germany had won WW2, the best sitcom titles, pub quiz help, religion and why football isn’t as good as it used to be, The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense is a big read.

It’s also a laugh out loud read packed full of typical Murray genius such as: (more…)

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The age of the comedy spinoff is most certainly with us, with companion guides and kerching cashins a-plenty in Borders and Waterstones last Christmas.  Most notable of these was Al Murray’s The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense which I’ll be reviewing once I’ve cleaned up all the wee.

Previous years have seen chimps such as Karl Pilkington (Gervais and Merchant’s comedy bitch from their podcast – no way is he the stupidest bastard on the planet in anything other than agreeing to be some sort of comic ladyboy foil for the pair) reach the top of the comedy book charts, while even lardarsed talent vacuum Chris Moyles got someone to write him a book.

Imagine having to transcribe that one.

But you know as much as I love them I can’t help feeling that these literary entries in the whole are a bad thing – and what’s worse they were pioneered by the Pythons.

It would be nice to see some real comedy gold in print, and not DJs ranting on their radio show for listeners to buy their books.