Crime of the Century!

The scripts for Harry Enfield's new comedy series have been stolen:

Ideas and material for a new series of Harry Enfield's comedy show with Paul Whitehouse have been stolen from a car.

The thoughts for his Harry & Paul show, to be shown on BBC Two next year, were contained on a laptop computer taken in Notting Hill, west London.

You never know what you might get when you lift a laptop - bank details, addresses and phone numbers, porn. Yet these stupid fucks ended up with the scripts for a Harry Enfield TV programme - something arguably worth less than soiled underwear. Not that it stopped them from having a go at making some money from this crime:

The thieves later phoned Enfield demanding £750 for the return of the computer, which he refused to pay, according to the Mail on Sunday.

£750? That much? My, that's mightily ambitious. They could probably get £50 for the laptop. But I struggle to see anyone - even the man himself - paying £700 for Harry Enfield's latest scripts. After all, he hasn't really said or done anything funny this millennium. They'd have been better off trying to steal the car radio.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "Filming doesn't start for another six months. There were only early thoughts on the laptop and not actual scripts, so it won't impact on filming for the series."

That's a shame. That's a real shame. Just goes to show no good will come from this particular crime. It can't even postpone the filming and broadcast of Enfield's latest *comedy* show...