Filming Week 2: The green clarinet is here!
Tonight (technically now yesterday) was That Mitchell & Webb Look night two. Following on from night one last Friday, I was a bit worried that it would be overly familiar and with rubbish warm-up (tepid at best, the warmth was outside) and luckily it was better than I had prepared myself for…
I was without Lovely Husband who is in Leicester at the moment. I am now all alone at home on my blog, typing in the fucking oppressive heat in no rush to go to the empty bed. Bah. I am also, shockingly, blogging nude. It’s hot and no-one will be offended. Anyway, he’s not here and wasn’t there and it’s all a bit soppy. We did have the hardcore audience team tonight consisting of me, Mr Bookshop, Mr Bookshop’s wife Wendy, That Cheryl the comedy stalker, Cheryl’s friend who we have named Jenny Eclair Junior, Jenny Junior’s friend who did a silly voice all night for reasons unknown, that Rob from Not BBC and his lady friend, but no Clive as he had to stay home and look after R2D2…
Alas, we had Julia Morris doing her ‘lack of a bond with the audience but fuck it’ version of warm-up where she just did her same stand up as last week and called us ‘kids’ and ‘darling’ a few times. Yuck. But then the main act(s) turned it completely around with a load more snooker commentators sketches. They were based again on the radio sketches but with added props, and this time focused on making cocktails and being gay. Nerdy fans will know which sketches I mean and everyone else will just have to wait until September to see it on the telly…
The other studio-bound sketch series was the triumphant return of Big Talk! It was pretty much a re-shoot of the pilot one filmed with us audience members but it was still rather very good and it brought back Mr Paterson Joseph! Hurrah, Johnson’s returned! He was also in a couple of slightly tweaked Numberwang sketches on VT (including, of course, Wangernumb) which were pretty much the final versions from the second rehearsal night at Ginglik. All bloody marvellous of course!
Other VT stuff included the wonderful Green Clarinet which made Cheryl’s evening and was everything we had hoped for. They had also used the ‘passing time playing solitaire’ in Heaven sketch, the evil vicar from the same series as the evil waiter, some more ‘this is television’ moments, and one of my favourites: The Wacky TV Historian, which had mostly just me and Cheryl in hysterics much louder than anybody else so I shall keep an ear out for the laughter track…
Next week: The final part. Bah!
Look! It’s Webb & Mitchell from that other universe!
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