WATCH THIS! The Weekend TV Picks Just For Stupid You!

Life is hard for many people for much of the time. But we all deal with it in different ways. Some people take solace in religion; placing their happiness in never seeing a ghost. They'd rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news. Those people are idiots and mediocre '90s pop stars.

Some people turn to alcohol or narcotics, like many a disgraced celebrity or role model. Would it surprise you to hear that a member of the hecklerspray bedsit likes to drink a bath of gin before singing the chorus from 'I Know Him So Well' from the musical Chess? Would it surprise you that it's Matthew Laidlow?

Whereas some people get happy by watching television and seeing that no matter how hard life can be; unemployment is at record high, there's cruise liners capsizing and you'll never be good enough for your partner, but no matter how hard life can be, you'll still be better than the people you'll see on TV. Fat Pat carking it? You're better than her. Not sure which of 12 potential men is the father of your child? You're better than her. Women chef overcooked her souffles and is now having a massive breakdown? You're better than her as well.

Allow us to show you the best things that is going on in the World of TV. Or not. Maybe you'd like to go back to having an awful life.

Perhaps you like feeling sorry for yourself.

Well we'll not be having that, so be on your way. Read on if you want to be a happy and healthy individual, or entertained.

Friday

Paul Simon: Live At Webster Hall, New York, Friday, BBC Four, 9:00pm

Everyone has a soft spot for Simon & Garfunkel. Where would we be without 'Bright Eyes' instilling a fear of angry looking rabbits. Or 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' reminding us how completely awful Stephen Gateley's solo career was. And 'Homeward Bound' being the theme tune to anyone's long train journey home. Well the terrorists would've won wouldn't they? And we don't want that now do we. Simon and Garfunkel shaped the way that normal people view music, we wouldn't have most of the folk output if they hadn't been maudlin folk heroes.

This show, admittedly has 100% less Garfunkel than what we would like, but still contains 100,000% (that's Jeremy Kyle maths there kids) of Paul Simon. Recorded in June 2011, just seven whole months ago, following his 'So Beautiful or So What'. Expect lots of songs that you've not heard before, but at the same time some of the biggest hits that Simon has pumped into the public consciousness, like a giant vacuum of fart. Will Ladysmith Black Mambazo appear? Like we'd spoil that for you. What do you think we are? Monstrous layabouts with nothing else to do but tell you the current whereabouts of Ladysmith Black Mambazo?

If you like that sort of thing, BBC Four has a whole night dedicated to the giants of folk as well.

Al Murray: Giving It Both Barrels, Friday, Dave, 9:00pm

Enjoy having your intelligence insulted by an overweight man who takes on the persona so unpleasant that even Jeremy Clarkson would be calling the Daily Mail in complaint, after asking everyone "What do you call and Indian with bacon on his head?" Do you like people who make jokes about being the slightest bit effeminate? Or liking drinks that aren't created from some horrible yeasty nonsense? No, us either.

But if you do want to sit, staring incredulously at the screen for an hour and a half and think "Christ on a trike, isn't this dated" then this is definitely for you. Listen to Al Murray as he dusts off his tired persona of the Pub Landlord and shouts at people in the audience, while drinking something called stout and talking about how Britain is different from what it might have been a few decades ago. Watch as the realisation that he's never going to find a career peak as high as this never dawns over his face. Smell the awful beer farts and Lynx Africa from the losers in the audience.

Saturday

The Magicians, Saturday, BBC One, 6:35pm

We at the Hecklerspray bedsit, love magic. We spend literally hours trying to make coins disappear behind each other's ears. It's got to the stage where otorhinolaryngologists at our local A&E know us each by name. We love it so much that at a Christmas party, a magician stole our watch from right under our nose and we let him keep it as a thank you. The trick was that the watch was stolen all along. Take that Magic Mick!

So as you can imagine, we have been thrilled with all these magic based entertainment shows that everyone has been ramming down our throats. But The Magicians is slightly different because it isn't just a vanilla trot-out-make-a-girl-disappear-who-then-turns-up-dead-in-a-canal-later-that-night. This one has professional magicians (apparently there's more than Paul Daniels and Dynamo) taking celebrities under their wings and teaching them to do tricks of their own. Sounds like something The Magic Circle would get their removable knickers in a twist, but whatevs. This week there's one half of Mel & Sue, Mel, David Haye and Kimberley Wyatt, who we're reliably told used to be in the Pussycat Dolls, but obviously she's not Nicole Sherzinger so no one cares.

The Jonathan Ross Show, Saturday, ITV 1, 9:15pm

Like him or not, Jonathan Ross is still going strong after his misdemeanors with Russell Brand and David Cameron, and has had success with his ITV chatshow. Tonight's show has Famous Harry Potter Penis, Daniel Radcliffe spouting various guff about the theatre and how it's a living, breathing organism as well as 'The Woman In Black' which is the new film he's peddling; Noel Fielding talks about his new show 'Luxury Comedy' and David Attenborough blows a kidney telling everyone that the scenes from Frozen Planet which everyone got into a right tizz about might have been faked after all, but that's alright because it's the better alternative than being ripped open by angry polar bears.

Sunday

Hugh's Three Hungry Boys, Sunday, Channel Four, 7:00pm

What's worse than a self-opinionated nancy chef advocating oven-dried tomatoes and pallet squashed chicken? Three of that chef's proteges. Which is precisely what this is. Following the progress of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's three friends, Thom, Tim and Trevor Whittington Smythe Rara Oopsilon the Third, Fourth and Fifth, as they travel around South West England, foraging off the ground that they walk on, and probably own. Unashamedly scripted, and not even that convincing, the rise of faux-danger is making cooking programmes into one homogenous blur, presented by the same person but with different haircuts. "Will they get the sourbread to the Orthodox rabbi by sundown?" "How is she going to manage to make twelve scones in three hours, while balancing on a thin strip of rope and reciting Pi?" One time Mary Berry defeated a whole ship of ravaging pirates, and still managed to deliver a chocolate truffle torte to the head of Westminster's WI.

Ben Elton: Laughing At The 80s, Sunday, Channel Four, 11:40pm

Have you seen the awful one off comedy shows on BBC One that are attempting to remind people that Lenny Henry, Jasper Carrott and Griff Rhys exist still? They're very bad indeed. But those cheap one off specials do remind us of one thing; comedy in the 80s was sometimes really fantastic. Which is just what this documentary looks at. Which you can probably tell. You're not stupid are you?

Presented by Ben Elton, who obviously co-wrote The Young Ones and Blackadder, who meets some of the biggest names in alternative comedy, so expect to hear funny things from Harry Enfield, Jimmy Tarbuck, Rik Mayall, Victoria Wood, French and Saunders and maybe some seagull noises from Lenny Henry. Has anyone figured out what that's about? No wonder Dawn French wants nothing to do with him.