‘Even straight burly men love our BBC comedy about drag queens’

Smoggie Queens is back and even punchier than before (Picture: BBC)

Deranged British slapstick comedy has, somewhat sadly, been left in the past.

Julia Davis’s Nighty Night is so dark and often disgusting, I still get shocked every time I watch it – which, by now, must be nearing the hundreds – and everything she’s done since is just as twisted.

Kathy Burke’s unhinged sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme, about two spiteful flatmates, broke barriers no one asked for – and the mad Linda La Hughes was so unfiltered and horny it was as unnerving to watch as it was unbearably funny.

It makes sense that the natural successor to Linda and the psychotic Jill Tyrell would be a deluded drag queen in Middlesbrough, with terrible eyebrows and a wig fit for a serial killer.

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