STILL Game stars Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill are laughing all the way to the bank following the success of their live stage show.
Latest accounts show that the comedy duo's companies raked in more than £1.5million last year.
Kiernan and Hemphill reunited in 2014 to bring back loveable pensioners Jack and Victor after a six-year absence following a fall-out. They performed a record-breaking 21 sell-out shows at the Hydro arena in Glasgow which saw them play in front of 210,000 fans.
Records filed at Companies House earlier this month show that their Glasgow-based production firm Effingee has total assets of more than £250,000. After paying off creditors, the firm declared profits of £227,225 for the 12 months up to April this year.
The accounts show that the company also made around £400,000 from the sale of its production offices in Hillington, near Glasgow. Hemphill is also the sole director of another firm, Sickwig Productions, which earned £910,953 last year and made profits of £591,465.
The actors formed Effingee in 2000 following the success of their sketch show series Chewin' The Fat.
However, Hemphill resigned from the company in 2008 following disagreements with Kiernan over its future direction. He was reappointed as a director in June, 2014. Kiernan's wife Lesley is the firm's secretary.
The comedy duo are currently in talks with the BBC about bringing Still Game back to television screens.
Speaking last month, Kiernan, 53, said: "It's probably sooner than you would imagine.
"That's as much as I'm allowed to say.
"We're in serious talks and we're a good way towards it but I've been warned on death not to mention anymore than that."
Hemphill, 46, added: "We're hoping to get working at some point next year.
"We owe it to the punters who came to see us at the live show."
Still Game was a massive TV hit, with six series aired between 2002 and 2007, and often pulled in more than one million viewers until Kiernan and Hemphill parted company.
Still Game favourites Gavin Mitchell, Paul Riley, Sanjeev Kholi and Jane McCarry also reprised their supporting roles for the stage show.
The Hydro gigs are estimated to have generated around Pounds 6million in ticket sales
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