Diane Morgan returns for another series of Mandy, in which she plays the lazy, useless beehive-haired title role who has more futile attempts at finding suitable employment. 

This week she has just lost her job tasting dog food and the benefits advisor (Tom Basden) wants to send her on a restart scheme to make her employable, which is the last thing Mandy wants...

After looking for suitable clothes and being mistaken for a prostitute she goes to the meeting but, needless to say, things don't pan out as hoped. On the plus side she is hanging out in her friend Lola's beauty salon and does some cushy cash-in-hand botox work that comes back to bite her.

In lesser hands this could be a throwaway forgettable 15 minutes (there are two episodes a night) but in the skilful hands of Morgan (who co-writes with her partner Ben Caudell) the result is brilliant, cramming more laughs into quarter of an hour than many comedies at twice the length manage. 

Somehow it is both clever and stupid at the same time. Morgan is a classic clown, happy to be silly and cartoonish, walking along the street bent back and defying gravity like one of the crows in Dumbo. And she has a great supporting cast. As well as Michelle Greenidge as Lola and Basden, currently riding high in The Ballad of Wallis Island and about to return to TV in his own series Here We Go, there are some lovely cameos in this opening episode, from Alistair Green, Tony Way and Yuriko Kotani as fellow restarters to disgruntled botox customer Sian Gibson.

There's even room for a cameo from money saving expert Martin Lewis. Make a note to watch Mandy, you won't want a refund. 

Mandy, Mondays, 10pm, BBC Two (and the whole series is already on iPlayer so don't worry if you miss it or if it's on too late for you. And don't expect me to provide you with a link iIm not your mother)

Picture: BBC/Richard Harrison