It's not a problem that many people will encounter in their lives but I'm telling you, reviewing a comedy sketch show is tough. (Well, you know, tough relative to reviewing other genres of television, not tough relative to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro unaided or conducting heart surgery.) But if you can bear with a bit of 'this sketch was good, this other one was alright, I didn't like that one near the end', then I promise, hand on heart, that you will never have to read the phrase 'hit and miss'.

The first series of That Mitchell and Webb Look came in for a bit of stick because it's 'old-fashioned', apparently, as if that outweighs all positives, and that being old-fashioned is inherently a bad thing in the first place. What we should really be concentrating on is where on earth David Mitchell and Robert Webb get their left-field ideas from...

The episode didn't start well, I'll grant you that. First up was 'Helivets', a sketch lampooning a certain type of television show that I couldn't quite put my finger on, where Mitchell and Webb came to the aid of distressed pet owners by helicopter, in pink jumpsuits. Didn't quite get that one... It soon picked up though. In a '1970s bawdy hospital', Webb just couldn't quite grasp the art of innuendo - instead he just kept blurting out obscene phrases. Even a last ditch 'ooh-er misses' couldn't prevent him from getting the sack.

One of the stranger sketches of the night was one among many where you maybe don't laugh out loud, but are left incredibly impressed, and thinking 'where the hell did they get *that* from!' It was padlockigami, the art of padlock folding, where the only thing you can make is a swan, by swinging the arch around. This idea was weird enough on its own, but they decided to combine this with Webb speaking in half Welsh, half English, which instantly brought to mind the Fast Show's Channel 5 sketches; I kept expecting to hear 'Chrissy Waddle' and 'scorchio!'.

Two of the best skits of the episode were also as impressive in the initial idea as in the delivery. There was the film-maker who strives to make films so much like real life that he includes scenes where people think they're going to sneeze, and then don't, and has brought out a movie called 'The Man Who Had A Cough, And It's Just A Cough, And He's Fine'. The other was a discussion between Mitchell and Webb about the fact that all TV programmes have a garden, not just Blue Peter. "They're not themed", David explains, "the Blue Planet garden doesn't even have a pond". We also finally learn why Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps keeps getting recommissioned: it's got the nicest garden.

Finally, I remember that in every episode of last series Mitchell and Webb were given sketches in which they shone individually - and that continues here. David's was a parody of Sky Sports voice-overs, which suggest that whichever football game is on next is the most important ever to be played (this particular sketch was delivered with extra bile, as it's clearly a pet peeve of Mitchell's). Rob's triumph came right at the end, where, in a job interview, his role was to deliver 'extreme negative feedback' to the applicant while they're answering questions, just to see how they deal with the stress. Webb always does anger and snarky sarcasm well, and he was clearly relishing this opportunity.

It seems that they're going to be less reliant on returning characters and situations this series, though Numberwang and Sir Digby Chicken Caesar are back in various forms, and that's fine by me; the more weird and wonderful ideas they can squeeze in the better.