Quite agree. This man believes theatrical anecdotes are entertaining. I have never heard him say anything funny that isn't written on a card. And he does he really believe that having Emma Freud sitting next to him in a radio studio will make him hip with the youngsters?

Also, interesting info, John Cleese hates him because he never paid him for a filmscript he wrote and he then he got lesser writers in to ruin the script for the finished film - Rentadick (god help us).

Well I love Ned Sherrin so there.

>Well I love Ned Sherrin so there.

That Loose Ends topical monologue at the beginning (written by Punt, later Alistair Beaton) marks the lowest point of topical "satire" for all-time. (Smug chuckles of the "well, that's not funny, but we've opened the wine, so haahhaaaahaaa"..). But he is, unbelievably, even more irritating on R4's music quiz Counterpoint, where he really will not shut it about Stephen Sondheim.

Another individual still being feted for something he did a long, long time ago.

And TW3 was crap. Peter Cook wasn't in it, and had he been, it would have been funny, not embarrassing all these years later.

There was a show by Hugh Dennis on R4 last night, talking about a particluar comedy subject and linking together loads of old clips about it. He played a routine from TW3, about travel agents. It was rubbish.

>There was a show by Hugh Dennis on R4 last night, talking about a particluar comedy subject and linking together loads of old clips about it. He played a routine from TW3, about travel agents. It was rubbish.

What a marvellous way of saving licence-payers' money, and what a brilliantly original idea. More, please!