Surely it has to be time to revamp our by-elections coverage?

Maybe I've been inspired by the Winter Olympics? I say cue the Ski Sunday music…and ACTION!!!

You now have shows like The Jump where celebrities try to do a ski jump in order to break their neck to reignite some interest in their career while nudging up the TV ratings. I think it might be time to think outside the box in terms of how we televise the build up and coverage of our by-elections.

The old format is staid and rigid. We need more showbiz, more excitement, more pizzazz. We could link the idiocy of The Jump to our new political show. We were always told as kids you're for the high jump, why not have MSP's test their skill, balance, strength and stupidity by having them do a ski jump?

I watched the candidates in this by-election and we need to look at the election process in a slightly more entertaining way.

The Cowdenbeath by-election has been a bit flat. Normally I like a good by-election, the drama, the anticipation. A shakedown and clear out is good. Blow off the political cobwebs a spring cleaning. Like weeding the garden, raking up the mulch and squeezing a troublesome blackhead.

I've been listening to the arguments and the candidates from the major parties and I have to say I've never been so uninspired. What a shower of insipid, dull, boring, tedious and mind numbing candidates.

They looked like random strangers, just dragged off the street. Their rhetoric is all coached, clichéd and they really have nothing about them at all. No spark, no vigour, they have that dead fish eye look of last week's catch in a dodgy fishmonger's window.

We have a show where viewers are linked up via phones, laptops and iPads. We call it Uninstall MSP (I had Uninstall Wife as an app idea but it's OK to steal from yourself). Then, instead of the local constituents having the vote, let's spice up and revolutionise by-election night TV.

Each candidate has to do a turn, a song, a magic trick. Each round gets more difficult till they have to eat fire, do a trapeze act, go over double-decker buses Evel Knievel style or even a ski jump and the public vote to keep or delete and get to Uninstall MSP. This is about the only way the Lib Dems or UKIP would have a chance.

Johann Lamont had a better than average FMQs this week. She relentlessly nipped at the First Minister on reports that he had upgraded himself to stay in a hotel frequented by the likes of Beyonce, Brad Pitt and Justin Bieber.

There's something primal and comical that's goes back to the earliest days of comedy, from the Greek attic comedies of Aristophanes about a woman shouting at a man over money. I suppose it's different when it isn't a sitcom but taking place for the world to see at the heart of your elected government but still it was funny.

There's something of the perfect comedy premise when the sums don't add up. Try as he might to perfectly justify the expenditure of 17 staff delivering the Ryder Cup to Scotland and generating tens of millions, he still had that wee sheepish look in his eye.

You could see him get angrier and more frustrated until he and Nicola Sturgeon were holding their heads in comedic frustration. Lamont kept pushing him on the issue of this £54,000, you could tell he was livid but tried to bat it off.

There's an old saying about having a face you wouldn't want to bring a burst pay packet home to, Lamont being the wife and Salmond the guilty hen-pecked husband in this vignette. Both just looked straight out of central casting for the starring roles. That dirty look Lamont gives Salmond should be like the Forth Road Bridge and nominated for World Heritage status.

TV pitch ideas continued…I'm not sure what's funnier the UKIP's horrendously homophobic and sectarian outbursts by text and Twitter which conclude with the ending LOL so are OK. Then there's the way the Lib Dems have been conducting their business this week.

Let's go for Nick Clegg's management of his party. TV suicide is a winner these days. Adopts 'Come on Down' style panel and game show voice over: 'This week on Very Slow Painful Political Hari-Kari…Lib Dem Leader, Nick Clegg…' Channel 5? Winner.

Edward Snowden, who depending on your political viewpoint is either an intelligence whistleblower and supergrass who can't be trusted or a fugitive martyr for the cause of free speech. Snowden who in his defence forced his nation into a root and branch surveillance reform, has made a bid to become rector of Glasgow University. Well at least he'll be able to do something about the leaks on the roof of the QM.

Do staff at Glasgow University and those working in academia (AKA crossword and expensive coffee specialists) really want someone like that who can check those phone calls to pals, the bookies, to the three-in-one, to the council, he'll be checking you know. Who's next? Julian Assenge and Chelsea Manning doing the events and gigs? What about DLT and Lord Rennard in charge of Gender Equality?

I like when Ruth Davidson asks each week 'when the First Minister will next meet the Prime Minister?' Every week the FM says no plans. I'd love it if he turned round and said 'Actually no but I keep asking him to meet me for a televised square go but he keeps crapping it.'