Neil Morrissey wants Men Behaving Badly return but fears it wouldn't be 'woke' enough

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BBC show wouldn’t be “woke” enough.The actor, 59, and his co-star Martin Clunes, 60, appeared as beer-drinking flatmates Tony and Gary in the 1990s sitcom - which ran for six series - opposite Leslie Ash, 62, and Caroline Quentin, 61, who played their girlfriends Debs and Dorothy.Neil admits the cast would have “fun” trying to make a new series.But he believes the only way it would be accepted on TV nowadays is if his character Tony became “completely woke” and had the occasional “lapse” when getting drunk with Gary.When asked if he thinks Men Behaving Badly could return one day, Neil said: “Well, with everything we do it’s all about script.“If Simon [Nye] writes something marvellous, which of course he would want paying for, we’d obviously have a look at it.“I don’t know if we could make that programme again now though, it’s not woke enough is it?“Putting ladies underpants on my head and things like that.

I guess Leslie was objectified a bit by my character." However, the star explained how he was unsure if the show would work for a modern audience.He continued: “But that was the point of it, that we were really rubbish, and they were really cool and smart.“That’s what the premise for the whole programme was - that we were a couple of misogynist idiots who couldn’t keep a job, let alone a girlfriend.“I don’t know if it would work [now], but it would be fun trying.“The way to do it would be to have the wokeness involved in it, in that Tony has become completely woke and will not do anything wrong and is so PC it’s unbelievable." He also explained that before the final series ended back in 1998, lead characters Gary Strang and Dorothy went on to have a baby who would be more than 20 years old now.He pointed out: “They.