Proper Bo

So Bo Selecta, probably the most "love it or hate it" comedy show of recent years returned last night. I loved the first two series which were original, mischievous and often laugh out loud funny. But hated the third which disappeared up its own arse and last year's god-awful spin-off "A Bear's Tale."

If you've never seen it, it's a rather hard show to describe. The show mainly consists of intentionally wildly inaccurate impersonations of celebrities using rubber face masks and Jack Duckworth-style glasses. Hence Marilyn Manson is portrayed as an upper-class aristocrat, Michael Jackson as a foul-mouthed bad-ass and Britney Spears as an ale-swilling Northern lass.

Luckily, Leigh Francis has finally realised that it's these rubber masks that make the show so hilarious and so his other rather pitiful characters, Keith Lemon and the cringeworthy The Bear were thankfully limited to just a few painful minutes screentime in the first episode.

There was nothing as genius as Trisha "when I say rice, you say and pea," Goddard, arguably his funniest creation, but the Pete Doherty biscuit addiction sketch was inspired, Mel B was still as brilliantly offensive as ever and thanks to the addition of his wife/sister, I actually found Avid Merrion funny again. Think it's a time to give Craig David a rest though.