The Comic Strip Presents is back The Comic Strip Presents, who will be celebrating their 30th anniversary in November, will return for a new adventure, called Five Go To Rehab, on GOLD. Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson and Adrian Edmondson, have been confirmed for their parts in what will be the 41st Comic Strip Presents adventure since Five Go Mad in Dorset aired in November 1982. The team - which also included comedians such as Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer - were praised for their full-length satirical fantasies sending up Britain through parodies of movies and television. Their regular rehearsal venue was a spare stage at Paul Raymond's Revue Bar, a strip club in Soho, and they were promoted as the 'guerrillas of humour'. Among their finest shows was a version of the Arthur Scargill story as it would have looked if Hollywood had taken it over and cast Al Pacino in the lead; and a mickey-take of The Professionals in which the pair of 1970s heroes ran around the entire time with their lips pursed. It was called The Bullshitters: Roll Out The Gunbarrel. Five Go To Rehab is written by the original writer Peter Richardson of whom French once joked that "Jen and I were always made to wear short skirts, fishnets and high heels by Peter, even if we were playing a lumberjack." His new tale is set in Dorset, the county where it all began, with a chaotic family reunion that again spoofs the adventurous kids in Famous Five author Enid Blyton's 1940s and 1950s books. GOLD will also be showing a documentary called 30 Years Of The Comic Strip and Richardson, talking about the anniversary, said: "I do get people saying: 'The Comic Strip is the reason I got into comedy'."