Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have revealed that they would like to revive their sketch shows. Yep. The mental pair who are to return to our screens this week on BBC Two this week with Shooting Stars have said that they’re really keen on bringing back surreal ’90s hits The Smell Of Reeves and Mortimer and Bang Bang.

“We’d like to get in the studio next week and start doing a Bang Bang or Smell Of,” Reeves told DS. “But until we get the green light, we’ll just keep doing Shooting Stars.”

Speaking about the latest run of the comedy quiz, he continued: “I think what you’ll see on Shooting Stars this time around is that it’s heading that way anyway. What we do now with the show is more and more like Smell Of. The celebrity guests are getting less and less important.”

“I think this new series is the furthest away from a quiz we’ve ever been. We like doing the sketches and the more surreal stuff. But as entertainers, you always want to do more, it’s just what you do.”

Reeves added: “We always get people asking to bring back [Channel 4 series] Big Night Out. I think it’s very pertinent to people of a certain age. It represents their youth and means more to them than anyone else. They want to be taken back to their childhood and brought out of their misery.”

Quite right. There’s a lot of 30somethings that need to be dragged out of their grown-up funk by bad impressions of Slade and Noel Edmonds with lumpy underpants.