Arena comedy pioneers David Baddiel and Robert Newman were reunited again this week. And this time there are photos to prove it.

They are both well-established authors these days and encountered each other at the Harper Collins summer party. Fellow comedian-slash-author David Walliams was also there and tweeted this picture with him standing between them. Walliams wrote: "Please can they work together again."

Earlier this year Robert Newman tweeted his former partner asking for tickets to Baddiel's critically acclaimed West End show My Family: Not The Sitcom. He said it would be his first outing with his wife after she had given birth. Baddiel obliged and after seeing the show Newman tweeted that he thought the show was "heart-warming" and "very, very funny".

In 1993 Baddiel and Newman were the first comedians to headline a comedy show at Wembley Arena. By then though their relationship was said to be strained and at times they hardly spoke to each other except when onstage. They stopped working together after the end of that tour and have both gone on to have successful solo careers. Perhaps, despite David Walliams' request, they may not work together again. Then again, stranger things have happened in comedy. Who expected Monty Python to reunite? And a lot of fortysomething comedy fans would like to see a Baddiel and Newman reunion onstage as well as at parties.