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DO you remember the days when a bloke called Harry Enfield was the king of TV comedy?
I said HARRY ENFIELD. No? You must remember! He was the man who had more faces than Mike Yarwood. And the man who was once far more popular and successful than his one-time sidekick Paul Whitehouse.
Yes, it's all coming back now, isn't it?
His TV career began in earnest in the late 1980s, courtesy of his appearances as Stavros the kebab shop owner and "bish, bash, bosh" plasterer Loadsamoney on ITV's Saturday Live, while his hilarious 1989 South Bank Show-style spoof documentary - Norbert Smith: A Life - won an International Emmy.
The dawn of the 1990s, then, saw Harry being given his own series on BBC2 -Harry Enfield's Television Programme, not to be confused with his follow-up show on BBC1 - Harry Enfield and Chums.
Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson were his chums on both shows...