The children’s comic’s role in a drama of ‘death, deceit and carnage’ shouldn’t be a stretch for an established master of destruction

Next year a British gangster film will be released, entitled Fall to the Top. Its plot concerns a frustrated labourer who becomes a drug dealer and ends up trying to control London’s entire criminal underground. Its official summary promises “death, deceit and carnage”. One thing it doesn’t promise, however, is what might turn out to be its biggest draw: Paul Chuckle.

Readers of a certain vintage will recognise Paul Chuckle as one of the Chuckle Brothers, the beloved slapstick children’s entertainment duo who starred in 292 episodes of CBBC’s ChuckleVision between 1987 and 2009. A typical ChuckleVision episode would see Paul and his brother Barry take employment at a new workplace, and then essentially destroy everything around them with their dangerous ineptitude. It was brilliant.