Paddy McGuinness hints at return of Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere

Paddy McGuinness has fans’ hopes up as he hints at a return of the comedy show Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere.

The show was a spin-off of Peter Kay’s iconic Phoenix Nights, which Kay and McGuinness starred in as the club’s bouncers. The Channel 4 spin-off aired in 2004 and proved popular, though there were only ever six episodes made. 

It picked up where Phoenix Nights left off; with Max and Paddy driving off into the sunset as they feared for their lives after the club patron threatened them with a hitman. The pair began a life on the road as they got into a number of hilarious scrapes along the way.

McGuinness teased fans as he hinted: “Well, when we talk about stuff, like the interesting thing about Max and Paddy and Phoenix Nights is now, we are kind of all of an age of the people we played back then.

“But we [him and Kay] do talk about it and what have you, but, I don’t, I can’t, I can’t see it at the minute, but we never say never, but it’s good to talk. Max and Paddy for instance, we wrote a couple of Christmas specials, and we’ve still got them.

“We never got around to doing one for whatever the reasons were back in the day. But we’ve actually got them!”

While it’s not definite, the door remains open for the two mischievous doormen should they wish to make a comeback.

It’s unclear whether Kay would return to the show as he is currently in the middle of a UK arena tour while McGuinness is back performing stand-up for the first time in 12 years. 

As the Take Me Out star continued: “I mean, he’s on tour. I’ve got all kinds of stuff going on, and it’s just sort of going ‘right, let’s get together. Let’s get our diaries together. And let’s blank out for that time’.”

Kay started his tour in December but McGuinness has said he doesn’t need to watch his mate perform live on stage, adding: “The mad thing about this show is, he rings me up, he says, ‘I’m going on tour’.

“So my first thing is, ‘why? Why do that? Why put yourself…’ and he’s like, ‘I want to do it’, this, that and the other. Great, fair enough, each to their own, and it is very seducing when you’re on stage and people are laughing.

“So anyhow, he’s put this massive tour on, I come round for a cup of tea. So I’m round at his house, kids are out, wife’s out, it’s just me and him and a cup of tea. So he says, ‘get the laptop, I’ll talk you through stuff’.”

He continued: “And then he says, ‘I tell you what, I’ll do the show now’. So he’s in his slippers, jogging pants from George at Asda, T-shirt with bean juice down the front – it’s just him.

“I’m sat where you are to me, he’s done the full routine.”