But it’s only online, there are no TV versions of the new 2011 series, so get yourself over to Fosters.co.uk and “give yourself a bit of a treat” as faux music hall legend, the Fast Show’s very own Arthur Atkinson may say.

And I’m glad to be able to report that the great man himself (Arthur that is) is also back, alive and well and with his totally unfunny catchphrase – “’ere, where’s me washboard” which when you’ve heard it often enough gets more hilarious each time with its inanity.

We also see the return of Ron Manager. Football hasn’t really been the same in Ron’s absence and we're still waiting for some of his observations on the modern game. So far, we’ve only seen Ron off-camera, lamenting the dangerous height of the studio’s stools.

The Fast Show has been off our screens since a “last ever” one-off version was screened by the BBC back in 2000. But YouTube gave it a real resurgence and creators Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson truly realised the potential of the web for sketch-based comedy.

The show is, after all, a series of short quick-fire sketches with the same characters coming back and back, so it makes perfect sense for it to be on the web only; it’s designed for us to dip in and out of. That was always the show’s ethos as it blazed a trail for other great comedy sketch shows in its wake like ‘Little Britain’ and ‘The Catherine Tate’ show which – whilst good – never quite seemed to achieve the same “laugh out loud uncontrollably” heights achieved by The Fast Show.

But a government health warning first; there are some very funny videos in the brand new web-only series being brought to us by Fosters.co.uk – along with a few other comedy legends like Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer.

As I’ve said – The Fast Show is back and it’s better – and I mean it; so just watch it!

But it’s only the computer screen it’s on as the show is available only online via Fosters.co.uk.

The series started on November 11^th and it certainly hasn’t disappointed us die-hard fans who enjoyed it so much the first time around during the mid 1990s.

Lots of our old favourite characters are back like Dave Angel, eco warrior, the Chanel 9 “scorchio” TV channel, the “does my bum look big in this?” woman and lots more.

It’s particularly heart-warming to hear from Rowley Birkin QC, once more, rattling on about his former life in most unintelligible mumbles with the off lucid snatch with like: “I opened my eyes and by jingo, I realised I'd married three of 'em!” or … “the sound of a small child’s voice; ‘Mama… Mama!’” Of course, he always ends his eulogies with "I'm afraid I was very, very drunk."

Some of the Fast Show’s best known catchphrases became used in just about every type of media over the years. "Football isn't it?" “I’ll get me coat” "You aint seen me, right?" "This week I have been mostly eating…" "Suits you sir!" the list is almost never ending.

The shows creators Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson created a legend and with the passing years have lost none of their cutting edge whatsoever. The show works at different levels from the repeated nonsensical simplicity to sharp satire, deep pathos and wonderful observational humour.

Different again are Reeves and Mortimer who are also on Foster’s website with some of the most inexplicably funny stuff you’re ever likely to see with their afternoon delights; don’t miss either!

NHS.   An acronym for free health care : Not Here Soon.

Nuclear  Winter.   Severe climate change, lengthy periods of darkness, below-freezing

temperatures, violent windstorms, radioactive fallout, toxic smog, famine and possible

disruption to Premiership fixtures.

War  Crimes  Trial.   A process which, following a conflict, guarantees the successful prosecution of leaders on the losing side.

Cricket, ugly cricket

At Lords where it happened

The bowlers did their best

So the fixers won the Test

The bowling it was clandestine

Spot betting’s a real gold mine

Cricket, ugly cricket,

Asif, Amir and Butt did it.

No-balls had to be bowled

At the time when they were told

They put their careers on the line

At worst they thought they’d get a fine

Oh cricket, ugly cricket

The Judge didn’t like it

All of you I’d love to shoot

You’ve brought the game into disrepute

But I’ll make do with imprisonment

In the hope that you’ll repent.

Oh cricket ugly cricket,

At Lords of all places

It’s the tip of an iceberg

Said the late News of the World

What a mess the game is in

Greed is such an ugly sin.

(To calypso singers everywhere – Respect, Man)

What Lasts Longer than Kim Kardashian's Marriage:

1. The flavor in a new stick of gum

2. Sex with Hugh Hefner

3.  The cooking time of a minute steak (also coincidentally, the same amount of  time needed for sex with Hugh Hefner)

4. The monogrammed Mr. and Mrs. Kardashian-Humphries guest towels

5. Believe it or not –  Justin Bieber’s singing career

6. Sarah Palin's hope for a US Presidential career

7. A bag of chocolate truffles in a PMSing  whore house

8. A keg at a football game party

9. An ice cream cone in the Sahara Desert

And finally,

10. A truce between the Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress 

He was only 38, but, worn down by the responsibilities of providing generous welfare benefits for his subjects, he resembled a nonagenarian.

A young man who was with 'Daffy' when he passed away, said he was so saddened by the pathetic state of his once handsome leader that he felt the least he could do to show his gratitude was to end his suffering in the traditional Libyan manner.

Other grief-stricken followers, who were loyally at his side right to the bitter end, said that they would have shown the same compassion for their beloved Dictator had their trigger-happy brother not beaten them to it.

One man wailed 'The good always die too soon' through his tears. Many others murmured in agreement.

Few words were spoken but rifles and machine guns were exuberantly fired into the air as a sign of respect.

Throughout his life, Daffy always maintained that he was just an 'ordinary guy' so it was fitting that he should have spent his last precious moments in a sewer pipe which has already been adopted as a Shrine to his memory.

As a mark of International respect, a NATO Red Arrows Squadron staged an impromptu ceremonial fly-past a short while before Corporal Gaddafi finally expired.

Writing by Don Kiddle