Smack the Pony 'set for return after 20 years off away'

'Smack the Pony' could be making a comeback.

Fiona Allen, who starred in the Channel 4 comedy sketch show alongside Sally Phillips and Doon Mackichan from 1999 to 2003, has told how the stars have been filming and discussing making "something fun" ahead of a potential return.

She told The Sun newspaper: "Wouldn’t it be great to see another one?

"We’re kind of filming, talking, that would be something fun."

Fiona hopes the show would still be as successful as it was in the early 00s.

She added: "It was fun and a lot of silliness, which I love, that was just our style I guess, and it worked really well and it cut across lots of different age groups.

"And we genuinely enjoyed it, we used to be in trouble a lot for laughing.

“It gets shown all the time, it’s always showing up somewhere. So that’s quite nice."

'Smack the Pony' made a brief return in 2017 for a Comic Relief skit.

In 2021, Sally admitted she had given up hope of bringing the show back after hearing too many rejections.

She said: "Nobody wants it, and you know what, I no longer want to do it.

"The journey of trying to get it remade became so funny in itself.

"You'd be in The Gambia and someone would come up and go, 'Oh, that thing you did. Drop the Dead Donkey - that was so great. When is it coming back?'

"And people tweet or whatever on a pretty much weekly basis, 'When are you doing it again?'

"But the commissioners just didn't feel the same way."