The BBC have got themselves in a sweaty lather over the success of Mrs Brown’s Boys by ordering a third series after the second one hasn’t been aired yet. It’s a funny show, in the same way Miranda is a funny show, nowt wrong with that, but most of us remember a time when an attempt to make a show like that was about as welcome as a dose of clap.

Indeed Ricky Gervais had a character in his sitcom ‘Extras’ that, after years of being a struggling actor, got himself famous for playing a cheesy sitcom character in one of those studio sitcoms, completely derided at the time.

Me and various other folk, the usual suspects, writers, stand ups and many a hanger on went to a meeting at Northern Film and Media in Newcastle with the head of comedy at Channel 5. You’d be forgiven for thinking ‘Wouldn’t that just be a bloke ordering a few repeats of Two and a Half Men to put on after the porn?’. Well no they were serious and this spanner came up from London to tell us what they wanted and what was big in comedy these days. It was just after The Office had broken big and Curb Your Enthusiasm was riding high. He told us that sitcoms were dead because quote “No one talks like that anymore”. They never did you silly twat! It’s a sitcom, it’s a form of theatre and I’d say a much better art form than the ‘life like’, ‘it could be a documentary it’s so real’ one camera jobs that have clogged up television schedules for years just because The Office and The Royal Family were so good.

I wonder what the tofu eating, balsamic vinegar, probably like The Clash but songs like Train In Vain prick thinks now that the crash bang wallop sitcoms are back. No doubt he’s boring to death some group of student filmmakers somewhere in Lowestoft or Hereford telling them that studio sitcoms are the way forward and that Mrs Brown’s Boys is hilarious because the Irish really are daft and that comedy should celebrate that.

Anyway don’t forget Sunday night at The Stand ‘Northumbrian Assembly’ with Mr Jeff Innocent. See you all there. Peace and jobs.

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