Frank Skinner

The bits that end up on the cutting room floor of a panel show are invariably better than what goes out for broadcast, so you can expect some even funnier or risqué tall stories and banter in this series finale of outtakes. Featured with regulars David Mitchell and Lee Mack are the always-entertaining Dara O'Briain and Frank Skinner, plus leading ladies Sarah Millican and Miranda Hart.

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This isn't the first time Frank Skinner has paid tribute to music hall star George Formby. At The Secret Policeman's Ball in 2008, Skinner performed a highly amusing (and YouTube-able) ditty about Osama bin Laden on a ukelele in the manner of Formby, complete with OTT Lancashire vowels. In this biopic, Skinner plays some of his real-life songs, charts his rise to fame and looks at the exploitation that surrounded his sudden death.

Frank Skinner puts a positive spin on his biography of stage and screen star George Formby, whose ukulele strumming and saucy songs kept British audiences smiling through the Second World War. It's a life full of fascination but Skinner scoots through the detail. In a film of more diversions than the M6, Skinner attends massed ukulele thrashes, learns how to make Blackpool rock and talks about his hero to schoolchildren, who greet him with: "Good morning, Frank Skinner". Sweet, like the programme.

Frank Skinner reveals his love for George Formby

The comedian explores the enduring appeal of the entertainer and ukulele master.

The most loquacious comedy on the airwaves comes to a close this week as the verbose partners from hell fall out over celery, Androcles and the lion and the use of parentheses on notes stuck to the fridge door. Frank Skinner's writing has been a revelation.

There's a lot of Frank Skinner in this affectionate appraisal of the life and times of George Formby but that's not such a bad thing, particularly as Skinner proves adept at playing the ukulele, the instrument associated with the toothy comic. Formby made a mint from his role as the king of the underdog and Skinner aims to find out why he was so loved.

I once sat through an edition of Would I Lie to You? without laughing. No, you're right - that's a lie. You try keeping a straight face as Sarah Millican tells the story of what she did when caught short while stuck in her car in a traffic jam. Or as Jon Richardson turns into "Trevor Travel-Planner" in his attempt to discredit Frank Skinner's tale about being taken to A&E in an ice-cream van while on holiday. But it's Lee Mack and David Mitchell who steal everyone's thunder with their by now familiar posh-versus-common, southern-versus-northern tirades.