Stars pitching the idea to C4

Smack The Pony could be heading for a comeback.

Stars Sally Phillips, Doon Mackichan, and Fiona Allen are to pitch the idea of a reunion to Channel 4, more than ten years after the sketch show last aired.

Mackichan told the Radio Times: ‘We will have to wait and see what happens and whether they will want to bring it out of the stable. But we would love to get the old nag out again.

‘So much has happened to us all, as mothers and women, there’s a lot that is funny about where we are now. There are years of pain to draw on.’

Mackichan – who is about to star in BBC Four hairdressing salon Quick Cuts – added that a revival would require a ‘lot of writing’, as the team were determined not to tread over old ground.

The original show ran for three series and two specials between 1999 and 2003. The idea of a comeback has been mooted since 2009, when Mackichan told The Stage: ‘We are back together and it is brilliant. It will be interesting to see us back on, having been through kids, husbands and life - with all the different experience.’

And in 2011, the trio all appeared together in Celebrity Autobiographies at the Leicester Comedy Festival, reading extracts from stars’ genuine memoirs.

Published: 11 Jun 2013