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“I’m a chancer, Jack of all trades, master of none,” joked Max Splodge, gleefully recalling Splodgenessabounds zany debut hit Two Pints of…

How Two Pints of Lager broke comedy’s class ceiling: ‘There was no one like us in the BBC canteen’ Noughties hit Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps broke new ground and set its cast of working-class Northern kids up for huge success 26 February 2021 • 4:00pm "Like university, except with money" - Will Mellor, Natalie Casey, Sheridan Smith, Ralf Little and Kathryn Drysdale starred in the BBC comedy It was a broad, warm and gag-packed Noughties sitcom about working-class characters...

Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 03.02 EST I’ve thought about it a lot in the intervening 40 years: why Adam and the Ants? I was a prime candidate for obsessive pop fandom – nine years old, glued to Top of the Pops on a weekly basis, an early adopter of Smash Hits, already spending whatever money I had on records – but why them specifically? After all, I was spoilt for choice. It was 1980, as miraculous a year for singles as Britain has ever seen. I could have alighted on the two-tone mov...