British comedy less cerebral humour of Benny Hill and his ITV sketch series "The Benny Hill Show". Other notable sketch-based series include "Morecambe and Wise", "The Two Ronnies", "The Goodies", "French and Saunders", "Absolutely", "Little Britain", "The Catherine Tate Show" and "The Fast Show". In the 1980s, alternative comedy was spearheaded by Ben Elton and The Comic Strip group which included Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, and French and Saunders. "Vic Reeves Big Night Out" influenced the style of a whole new generation of comics in the 1990s until the present day. The 1990s and 2000s (decade) have also seen the rise of
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy Noel Fielding and Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno, a good friend of Fielding's, under the band name Loose Tapestries. The duo were joined for the second series by Kasabian touring member, Tim Carter. It is described on the Channel 4 website as "a psychedelic character based comedy show half filmed and half animated". The first series started airing on 26 January 2012 and lasted for seven episodes. Channel 4 announced in February 2012 that "Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy" had been recommissioned for a second series, which started airing on E4 on 31 July 2014. The series format has switched from sketch show