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Come Fly With Me - Meet Fearghal and Lee

We revealed some more of the many faces of Matt Lucas and David Walliams in Come Fly With Me earlier this week. Now, here they are as two more!

The many faces of Lucas & Walliams in Come Fly With Me

Are you ready? These are just some of the astonishing range of characters Matt Lucas and David Walliams will be playing in their new airport-based mockumentary Come Fly With Me:

New 'Come Fly With Me' photos

Matt Lucas parades in Speedos and a red wig as he films new comedy Come Fly With Me.

Matt Lucas blacks up - nobody hurt

Interesting to see the first picture just released from the new Matt Lucas/David Walliams BBC sitcom Come Fly With Me. The comedy is set in an airport with the duo playing various colourful characters. And colour may be the key word here.

As series three began, Little Britain had become huge; the air was thick with its catchphrases ("I'm a laydee", "I'm the only gay in the village") and the transfer of Matt Lucas and David Walliams's sketch show from BBC2 to BBC1 guaranteed a whole new, bigger audience. But then the arguments began: was it cutting edge, or just coarse? Some viewers didn't see the funny side of new characters such as Mrs Emery, an incontinent old lady. Make up your own minds as BBC3 starts a re-run. All the old favourites are here, from monstrous Marjorie Dawes to Vicky "yeah but, no but" Pollard.

Lucas and Walliams in Come Fly With Me - first picture

Here it is - the first picture from Matt Lucas and David Walliams' new comedy show, Come Fly With Me! The show starts later this year... watch this space for more news.

Matt Lucas launches privacy claim against Daily Mail

Comedian Matt Lucas has launched a legal action against the Daily Mail claiming a story about his recovery after the death of former civil partner breached his privacy.

David Walliams has revealed some of the secrets of his and Matt Lucas' new airport-based comedy. He said that one of the characters will be a "trolley dolly with really buck teeth."

The project, Come Fly with Me, will be a spoof of docusoaps like Airport and Airline. But David said it will have all new characters and won't recycle favourites from Little Britain.

The show is due to be aired on BBC1 this Christmas.

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are back with their rather tired celebrity gameshow. Still, there are some enjoyably silly "true or false?" questions and the score-keeper, Angelos Epithemiou's dishevelled dimwit, is a funny replacement for Matt Lucas's "George Dawes". Guests tonight are pop star Example, Hairy Biker Si King, former Strictly dancer Camilla Dallerup and EastEnders actress Linda Henry.

Anyone who remembers the joyously strange experience of watching Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's quiz show when it first appeared in the early 1990s can forgive it almost anything. And they've needed to: it grew tired and staggered on past its natural life span. Then BBC2 revived it for a Christmas special in 2008 and what should have been a museum piece worked better than expected. Now George Dawes, the "big baby" drummer/scorer created by Matt Lucas has gone, to be replaced by shambling burger van owner Angelos Epithemiou (the excellent Renton Skinner). But the blend of surreal sight gags - at one stage a pair of disembodied legs walks across the set unremarked - and daft questions remains the same. Highlights tonight include panellist Jack Dee (with "a face like a scalded sea cadet", according to Vic) having to play a toy drum every time he wants to speak and a brilliant parody of Kerry Katona's TV ads for Iceland. Look out for the sticky potato pistols.