Hooray! The new Armstrong and Miller series is on. Me and Kev wrote some stuff for it including these sketches from the first show, of some presenters on a show very much like Blue Peter. Apologies by celebrities are an entire entertainment genre of their own now, so it felt very right to take a pop at the whole thing. Here’s the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ptd-QyOOUg

If you live outside Britain and aren’t familiar with Blue Peter – well, I hope you’ll get the idea. We British people have had Blue Peter, which is just a magazine show for children, burned into our minds for nearly five decades.

We wrote for Ben and Xander way back in the nineties too. We first met Ben before that in 1992, when he and us were on the writing team for a Radio 4 satire programme called Week Ending. For a while that writing team also had Al Murray and Harry Hill. Now you couldn’t get them all on the same show for less than a million billion pounds; back then, a couple of hundred pounds did it. And I don’t mean each.