 Forty years after the original broadcasts, "Stop Messing About" was rewritten for the stage, making an initial appearance at the Rose Theatre, Kingston in January 2009.The production was restaged in the West End at the Leicester Square Theatre in April, running for six weeks.The stage show, penned by Brian Cooke and directed by Michael Kingsbury, was based on selected material from the original radio show alongside a majority of material written by Mortimer and Cooke for other shows.