I'm not suggesting for a moment that the special was GREAT, just that it pretty much did away with the Life's Too Short format - such as it was - and delivered a fairly amusing hour of Cheggers, Barry and Les Dennis.
It does, however, leave a sour taste in the mouth, as it's written and directed by multimillionaires, but the fact that, in real life, Cheggers, Barry and Les Dennis are (were in the case of Cheggers, RIP) successful sort of makes up for that.
I agree that the cheerfully incompetent lawyer character in LTS was the only good part of that show. For all their obvious faults, Gervais and Merchant are actually very good when it comes to writing broad comedy based around absolute buffoons.