Addison, Whitehall and Murray come to C4 for My Funniest Year

Performed live in front of a packed Hackney Empire, each show is a combination of stand-up, live guests, bizarre clips and comedy VT's reliving that year's unforgettable events, both public and private.

Al Murray reprises his character of The Pub Landlord to take us back to 1997, the year when his wife took the Spice Girls' concept of Girl Power to heart and ran off with a Frenchman. Chris Addison revisits 2001, the year of his 30th Birthday and the launch of TV show Popstars, which delivered us the cringe-worthy Darius Danesh, and Jack Whitehall opts for 2005, the year that fox hunting was banned and he lost his virginity in pub toilet.

The series was commissioned following Twofour's successful pilot, My Funniest Year: 2000, which aired in autumn 2010 hosted by Rufus Hound.

The 3 x 120' series is due to air later this year on Channel 4 and is executive produced by Andrew Mackenzie for Twofour and Dan Berbridge for Channel 4, and series produced by Cameron Banks.