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TWO decades have passed since the likes of Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Arabella Weir and Caroline Aherne burst onto our TVs and created a gallery of memorable stars, and sayings that still pop up in everyday conversation.

I'm sure that some of us can't manage a visit to Next without slipping into "Suits you" and, with Brazil around the corner, a few will be preparing a Ron Manager misty eyed Jumpers For goalposts speech.

The first of a two-parter Whitehouse, Higson, Weir, Aherne, Simon Day and John Thomson reunite to allow Ted and Ralph to investigate social media. There's also a Downton Abbey spoof.

One of Whitehouse's favourite characters is wartime comedian Arthur "Where's Me Washboard" Atkinson, a saucy Max Miller type who delivers a stream of incomprehensible gags to a tittering theatre audience.

"He has his little catchphrase 'How queer, how queer'," remarks Whitehouse. "It's a bit cheeky really. Truth is he's a horrible, vicious and nasty man, especially when he upstages his mate, Chester Draws."

Some of the beloved characters would have appeared long before The Fast Show if Whitehouse had his way. "Harry (Enfield) never liked Suits You' because they are very rude. He thought they came across as homosexuals, but they're not. Tailors can be quite over-familiar with you, not coming on sexually, but wanting to know more about your sex life."

Whitehouse and Higson's lives are a far cry from their early days, when one was a plasterer and the other a decorator. They met at the University of East Anglia, before Whitehouse was thrown out and went to work for Hackney Council. Whitehouse's friendship with Harry Enfield soon gave him his break in showbiz.

"I knew Harry when he was first starting out. I used to give him the odd line for his stage act and he was always trying to encourage me to write with him. So when he started doing Stavros he insisted that I write some stuff for him and that's where it all started."

Auction Hunters (Discovery, 9pm)

AMONG the Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and Storage Wars raft of programmes runs this little gem. I say little but Clinton Jones (aka Ton) not someone you'd argue with and the business partner of Allen Haff, and the pair have has turned up American Civil War guns, mystery safes and everything from cars to aircraft storage unit auctions throughout Southern California. The due claim that most of their buys end up making little to no money, with the 80/20 divide applying. That's 80 per cent of profit coming from 20 per cent of the units.

The Graham Norton Show (BBC1, 10.40pm)

HIGHLIGHTS so far include Michael Fassbender swaggering into the Norton studio, egged on by Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy, while miming to Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines. Let's hope there's more memorable action in this episode as Norton welcomes the movie legend Julie Andrews.

While the Mary Poppins and Sound of Music star is worthy of a show by herself, it's often the dynamic between polar opposite guests that makes this strand really work, so how will she get on with 22 Jump Street stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill? Pharrell Williams will be singing Marilyn Monroe, and if there's time, more members of the public will be braving that chair.