TV funny man Harry Enfield has revealed that he was worried that the rise of Ricky Gervais meant that his own brand of comedy had suddenly become old and that the success of The Office and Extras meant that his career was over.

Enfield, whose characters Kevin the Teenager and Tim Nice But Dim captivated an entire nation felt that his time in the spotlight had come to an end as Gervais’s observational comedy seemed to replace the public’s need for his brand of sketches…

“I thought we were past it, because everything was so cool. With Ricky coming up with his amazing, just so well-observed, comedy. I think what we did was well-observed too, but he got the ultimate thing to observe – an office – that I just thought it was much cleverer. It didn’t have any jokes, it was just painfully truthful and embarrassing and really, really funny so I thought, ‘That’s it, I’m over.’ Then Little Britain came along, and that was fantastically uncool and everyone loved it, so I thought, ‘Oh good,’ so we got back into it. I love Little Britain, I wouldn’t have started doing all this again if it wasn’t for Little Britain.”

Harry Enfield’s new series starts tomorrow at 9.30pm on BBC Two.

Photo courtesy of i.thisislondon.co.uk

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