The Man on the Telly. He’ll do anything for a buck, is foul-mouthed and violent and has his own truly brilliant Profanisaurus. Spin-off cartoon was voiced by Peter Cook, and Roger has written many books, including Shit Yourself Slim.

San and Tray live in Mansfield, are fat, filthy and constantly on the hunt for sex. With anything. They also binge drink and live on chips. They made a live action movie of the Fat Slags but it wasn’t very good.

Eight Ace can’t stop himself from drinking Ace Beer. He is always in trouble with his wife and kids for his habit, and most strips involve him somehow finding the £1.49 needed for Eight Ace from Patel's 24 Hour Nanomart.

Biffa and his Geordie family are all violent nutjobs. Obviously a parody of Bully Beef in the Dandy. Biffa often has his teeth kicked in by his fatha and mutha, but occasionally the family bond to assault any outsiders. Often badly beaten themselves, on one occasion by an irate Gordon Ramsay.

The bakers very, very rarely bake anything at all, but do find alcohol in almost every place they look and carry on a really brilliantly abstract line of conversation. “This milk is blue and tastes funny,” they say. About paraffin.

Sid has no clue about women, but does have a gift for boasting about his sexual conquests and usually finds himself in ridiculously humiliating positions. He is, of course, a virgin.

Supposedly based on a mix of Danny Baker and Mike Reid, Cockney Wanker speaks in ridiculous rhyming slang, drinks heavily and tries to flog dodgy goods to passers by. He also beats his wife.

Millicent Buckeridge Tant is a radical feminist and a champion of Wimmin’s Rights. In fact she is so aggresive and self-centred that she usually causes trouble where none had been. All men are either ‘potential rapists’ or simply ‘rapists’.

Billy Thompson is half man, half fish but despite this handicap he has had a long and successful career as goalkeeper for Fulchester. He has a sweet mullet haircut and is in fact the second Billy the Fish: his dad was the first but he was killed by a booby-trapped ball in the FA Cup Final.

The boy with the Unfeasibly Large Testicles. His balls were made huge when they were zapped by cosmic rays during a storm. Unlike, say, Spiderman or Batman, Buster wears his power openly, carrying his sac around in a wheelbarrow.