DO the Two Ronnies, Pete and Dud, Ellis and Rose or the 20th Century Coyotes mean anything to you, dear reader?

These are just a sample of Great Britain’s most iconic comedy duos who have provided many infamous moments of hilarity down the years.

But now two Worcester politicians are doing their level best to top the lot judging by recent calls to The Source.

Last week this paper splashed on a story headlined ‘March of the Fatties’, based on data showing half the county’s population is now overweight or obese.

The piece, complete with an artist’s take on the evolution of mankind, depicting the human body slowly morphing into a pile of ugly blubber, didn’t half go down well with our political comedians.

In fact, on the very day of publication Labour councillor Alan Amos had a word on the phone, insisting he wanted to “make a complaint” because his party colleague Coun Richard Udall keeps on being featured prominently in the newspaper.

“You’ve got a great big picture of him on the front of today’s Worcester News,”

he chuckled, referring to the artist’s steaming big fat bloke holding up a soft drink on page one.

What made the conversation all the more entertaining was that Coun Udall was in the background at the time, within earshot of every single word.

“I don’t have to take this,” he hissed.

“I won’t have it from a more junior member of my party.”

Not one to let a good mickey-take pass, Coun Amos now says, on reflection, the image could not possibly have been of Coun Udall because the cartoon is “wearing blue pants”, which appears at odds with his sidekick’s red political leanings.

One would suspect Coun Udall, who by now is entirely used to having his colleague take pops at him, is thinking of a way to enact revenge.

He may want to refer back to an article in Total Politics magazine in 2010 which reckoned Coun Amos is one of the best “political turncoats” of all time, noting his former career as a “right-wing Tory MP” who once advocated flogging for rapists and corporal punishment for young offenders.

He’s more tolerant these days.