Al Murray's Make Christmas Great Again review

A few years ago, the Pub Landlord's xenophobic conceit seemed to be wearing thin. In the light of recent politics, he seems fresh and even prescient. The effect is unsettling: in the laughs and cheers there are traces of the emotions he is ostensibly subverting. Is he teasing those who mock the French? Or us, the crowd who laugh slightly too loudly when he mocks the French? It's no coincidence that in the best moments last night, as Murray claimed that Christmas was a British creation, he brought to mind other boisterous populists on both sides of the Atlantic.

The current series of the ballsy panel show fronted by Leigh Francis's Keith Lemon character comes to a close, with McFly's Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter returning to the fold alongside regulars Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby. For some, the Ofcom-provoking humour will have worn thin after 10 outings; for others, the crude laughs will be as entertaining as ever. In any case, for those looking for quick gags it is a better bet than Lemon's recent - and heavily panned - revival of Through The Keyhole.