My Favourite Sketch

This episode’s guest, Johnny Vegas, says the only reason he’s avoided sketches himself is: “It’s got to be concise; it’s a skill to tell a story in such a short space of time.” But it’s clear from his choices – The League of Gentlemen, Snuff Box, a typically surreal Vic and Bob send-up of MasterChef — that he enjoys the darker side of comedy. Some of his chat with host Sally Phillips even borders on the confessional – apt when you consider the young Vegas began training for the priesthood.

Aficionados will nod in appreciation, however, at the likes of Big Train and The Armando Iannucci Shows, and his re-enactment with Phillips (of an Alas Smith and Jones funeral sketch) is the best so far this series.