So Mark’s marriage to Sophie is nigh and his mate is as loathsome as ever… yep… Peep Show (Channel 4, 10.30pm, Friday) is back and we’ve got a stag weekend to deal with. With Peep Show being an ‘irreverent’ thing, we were faced with an ‘irreverent’ stag-do. Whoop! Where will our adventurers take us? Why, on a barge near an Iron Age area! Comedy gold! Of course, it’s a disaster… and not a particularly funny one at that.

You see, Peep Show has puzzled me. David Mitchell is without doubt, one of the funniest men in Britain when devoid of script. Give him something to read and he loses all his… well… wit. Robert Webb (who plays the buffoonish Jeremy) is the dead wood, nasally ballsing up gags and delivering all the lines that the sixth formers and students love. Y’know? Like some who says “rape” in an attempt to seem edgy (clue. There is nothing funny about rape). While I’m not a fan of Peep Show, Friday saw me willing to give it a chance to see why so many people (that I know) like the programme.

Of course, when I say I was approaching the show with an ‘open mind’, it’s not like any old person having an open mind. I’m bitter and I judge programmes on previous form without much care or remorse. The Peep pair have a lot of humps to get over. That Mitchell and Webb Look was terrible. Blunder may be the poorest sketch show I’ve ever seen (save The Catherine Tate Show) and those Apple ads only prove how these two are willing to sell their arses in the name of cashmoney. In fact, I’m glad I mentioned those ads. The very thing that is wrong with Mitchell and Webb is the very same thing that is wrong with Apple computers. Apple computers are actually decent enough. The do things correctly and are reliable. However, they are ‘fun’ and they aint vastly different from your average PC. They just are. Much like Mitchell and Webb. Underneath the PR sheen and promotion, their just isn’t much there. Just two blinking and blindly pawing baby moles fumbling around for a joke or two. So, did I like the show on Friday?

Mark and Jeremy met two women in a pub. It went awry. They kill a dog. One of them eats the dog. End of show. Sadly for me, the whole thing is preposterous… and not in a good way. For some reason I don’t buy into this pair as characters. I think that, if I was an 18 year old, I’d love this show. I’d drool of it’s use of the word “hubris” and find it all fantastically crass and hilarious. However, I’m not a sixth former and eating dog is a lame and one dimensional joke to offer up. Normally with double acts, one is quite lovable whilst the other is meaner (and generally funnier). This is not the case with this show. Mark is horrible and hates his fiance. Jeremy is a vile oik who talks about women like they’re shit on his shoe. Now, before fans of the show go mental (do grow up), let me tell you that I’ve spotted that these two aren’t very good at being alpha male types, and that’s where the ‘sweetness’ lies. Let me tell you something. If someone acts like an idiot, they’re an idiot. There is no such thing as a lovable git. Someone who eats someone’s dog after trying to get off with them is severely lacking in the lovable scallywag department. I don’t get this show and as a result, I won’t bother watching it again… I’ll probably leave it to someone else to review who likes it. [Mof Gimmers]