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Mandy review: Crammed with gags, this is the most inspired comedy on TV right now, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


MANDY REVIEW: Diane Morgan must be telly's ultimate 'bad influence', the sort of person your parents warned you about.

The entire episode was inspired by the vaguest of resemblances between Mandy's peroxide beehive and the platinum coiffure of 1960s screen goddess Tippi Hedren in The Birds. In a storyline even dafter than the steeplejacking, Mandy and her friend Lola (Michelle Greenidge) bagged free seats to see a psychic, by wearing high-viz jackets. Morgan's genius for visual set-ups had her in the audience at The Crucible for the snooker finals — putting Higgins off his stroke by cadging a light off him.

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