What's amusing me today

That shows you're awfully good at remembering things.

He made enough money from saying ‘me mam bought Rola Cola and it wer’ shite’ to take 25 years off. Gotta respect that.

Apologies for the grammar of my message, I was twatted on Neck Oil.

Be fair. There was "Garlic bread, garlic bread? Garlic, with bread? Oooh. It's a taste sensation."

And "it's spitting!" which a former housemate claimed to have screamed as climaxing all over a girls face, something I've never been able to unthink.

I still love Phoenix Nights.

Doesn't he refuse to have it repeated because he's fallen out with all his collaborators and doesn't want them to get paid?

Definitely heard Spikey and Jeff from Peep Show slag him off. Implicitly or explicitly.

I’ve read he absolutely hated Daniel Kitson (the feeling was mutual, apparently) and wrote him out after the first series, so that tracks.

One of the cast were in the audience last night, Kay pointed him out, but I didn't catch his name and couldn't tell you it now despite having just looked through the cast list.

How much Neck Oil was consumed before the show?

I think it was something to do with the other writers (Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice) being irritated that Channel Four branded it 'Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights', apparently because they felt Kay was better known at the time.

Their feeling was that Kay was content to take credit for the writing, which was very much jointly done.

This was addressed in the commentary on the DVD. In Kitson's scene where Spencer the barman is having his interview with a bloody-nosed Jerry St Clair, Kay said something like: "Here he is, Daniel the bastard'.

He explained that shortly after Phoenix Nights had come out, Kitson was doing the Edinburgh Fringe and said something on stage along the lines of it being one of the worst things he'd ever done and a big regret.

I know we've talked about this before in the past, but I find Peter Kay to be one of the most painfully unfunny comedians I've ever seen. He is absolutely devoid of nuance or insight or wit.

This week I’ve seen Stewart Lee to whom I could listen and laugh with all day. And Rachel Fairburn, who I had never really heard of but was very witty.

Peter Kay is quite brilliant. Phoenix Nights alone is enough to cement his place in the pantheon of comedy greats. Of a particular time.

But it's ok to not like him.

Similarly, fuck the middle class affectation that is Stewart Lee.

Classic talkback, telling me what I can or cannot laugh at

l reserve that sort of vitriol for the likes of Jim Davidson or Bernard Manning.

But hey…each to their own. If being middle class is a crime, most of us on here would be in prison