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Sketch comedy as performed by W. My entire family and I have really enjoyed this show having just caught the first season by chance and watched in its entirety one evening. Steeped in the traditions of the seventies, it lifted our spirits and genuinely made us laugh. Some gags occasionally missed their mark but everything was solid and well written and carried by a sense of conviction from both comedians and cast.

The second season we watched weekly and it retained the high-standard of tightly written sketches and seemed more polished. Should they not get renewed for a third season I believe we will see more of them as they have considerable acting abilities. Give it a go! Take Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver. In the noughties they regularly appeared on the Edinburgh Fringe where their shows were enjoyable, energetic affairs in tiny venues, defined by a heady mix of good writing and committed performances.

Any flaws or fluffs were handled with a knowing, cheeky grin, as if to say: "You only paid a tenner, we're in a shoebox, what did you expect?

You don't need high definition to see that over the series the twosome — who stick to a classic, broad template with the occasional twist — could be stretched. There were some strong skits in the second episode — I liked their wannabe sexy classical musicians and their well-executed-if-obvious unreconstructed Mad Men send-up, Bad Men — but there were bum notes too. And not just the bad singing in their predictable costume drama spoof, Absolutely No Sense and Sensibility.

Making fans fall about in the flesh is no guarantee of television success. Watson and Oliver are not the only sketch group to have had paying punters giggling into their pints, but got lost in televisual translation. Pappy's are a legend in comedy clubs. Their gigs often make the most of very cheap props, from children's toys to tin foil costumes, which is fun live but on television just looks, well, cheap.

Not surprisingly, their Channel 4 Comedy Lab pilot failed to capture their in-your-face anarchic glee. The special guest budget must have been blown in episode one on John Barrowman as there was no star-based finale in their second outing. Sketch comedy is thriving on the live circuit.