‘The Cheese Shop’ is the collective pseudonym (under which they used to appear frequently in the Week Ending writers’ credits) of six young writer-performers who emerged from Warwick University: Gerard Foster, Dave Lamb, Gordon Southern, Tim Verrinder, Ben Ward and Richard Webb.  The Butter Factor is a showcase for traditional, revue-based character and sketch comedy: it hit its stride in the second series, memorable for a running gag about a stratospherically inexperienced vet (“‘Tortoise’, you say?  Hmm… I must write that down…”)  Series Three carried on in the same vein and saw the return of numerous by-now familiar characters, including fascist functionary Miles Stoat, coke-addled songwriter Ted Ruby, and pyromaniac radio gardener Jack Finsborough.  Concurrently with this project, half of the Cheese Shop has (have?) entered the world of Saturday-morning children’s TV under another nom de guerre, ‘The Men In Trousers’.