Second series 'probably the last'

Paul Whitehouse says the next series of Happiness will probably be the last.

The comic is currently working on a second run of the comedy about a group of men facing the mid-life crisis.

"But that'll probably be it," he said. "We'll see how it goes."

The Fast Show star believes that the turnover of new comedy ideas is now much faster than it's ever been before.

Even Morecambe and Wise would not continue in the same vein for more than 20 years if they were on TV today, he claimed.

"Either they would have got sick of it, or the public would," he told Paul Jackson in an interview for Radio 4's In Conversation With to be broadcast in March.

Whitehouse also admitted he got itchy feet with his projects, saying that during the making of Happiness he often thought: "This is all very worthy - but I'd rather put a wig on and say 'arse'."

Published: 20 Sep 2001