A classic pastiche information film from Harry Enfield and Friends, starring Harry with Paul Whitehouse.

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Charlie Higson is a successful comedian, comedy actor and writer, who while occasionally providing us with funny sketches, characters and series also writes a series of novels featuring a young James Bond.

He’s also one of the team behind Down the Line, the spoof 2006 radio phone in series that is now available from the BBC Shop, and here’s a few words from the man himself…

1.    You’ve worked with Paul Whitehouse since your university days, does your shared history help when you’re creating new characters and situations?
Absolutely not, I hate the bastard. (more…)

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We wanted it, and we’ve got it - a second series of Ruddy Hell, It’s Harry and Paul (although don’t be surprised by a name change) is in production, with the comedians recording footage on July 21st at BBC Radio Theatre, 6.15pm.

Thanks to the BBC’s free audience policy, you can go along - but look out!  This show is for over 18s…

Publicity material states:

“…they return with many of the characters that made a big impact last time such as the amazingly fast talking surgeons, the Posh Scaffolders, Nelson Mandela as you have never seen him before, the I saw you Coming shop, the Polish café and many more plus some hilarious new additions”

Top hole!   You can book tickets now at the BBC website

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I warned you – I Saw You Coming from Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul.

You WILL like it

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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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