But even those two, were long drawn out and overplayed. Like Smith and Jones later series, and Ben Eltons later sketch shows, you hit a point where the budget is there, the time slot is there, and the good actors are but the magic is gone. You start doing middle aged man jokes, about kids today, and noisy pop, and no one listens to me et al.
Alot of good comics seem to become pretty good actors, or semi comedy actors. Paul Whitehouse, Russ Abbott, etc.