Filming Week 3: Final Look. Boo hiss boo …
That Mitchell And Webb Look is coming to BBC2 in September… and we went to the final recording session tonight at that BBC place. So that’s seven times we’ve been out to things related to this show. Madness, but worth every minute of it. Apart from a few of the minutes with Julia Morris doing warm-up of course. No rapport with the crowd, you see!
Unlike Dame Lucy Porter, who made her triumphant return to that job tonight and is such a comedy nerd that she sat on the floor and watched the show while she was not warming us up. More like cooling us down due to the weather but anyway… She came on, said hello to me and the husband as we were in the front row because I am a geek, and that made us feel happy and nerdy and self conscious. Being asked about your recent wedding and its best presents (but no wedding gift list, oh no) in front of a studio full of strangers is pretty odd but good. The rest of our lot were happy to have a warm-up with that audience rapport thing. Hurrah! And on with the show…
We had the joy of seeing some brand new sketches that weren’t from the radio series or the various warm-up nights (although we might have forgotten a few things) such as the future classic ‘biscuit telekinesis man’ and the stroppy ‘Captain Pugwash man’ down the pub. I shall say no more about these so as not to ruin them but I nearly laughed myself sick. We also admired the “massive yachts” eccentric phoneline millionaires, the German version of Numberwang, the rare Wordwang, the marvellous heroin sketch featuring a brilliant Gran Christmas present gag, and some visualisations of old radio gems like the cornershop lager man, the new Fuhrer, and the drycleaning business naming sketch. It is, in fact, better than Little Britain. Yes, that’s the show that ran for one series on BBC2 then they made no more! Remember it? It was great! Merchandise? I think you’re confusing it with something else! 
The ‘children’ from MySpace enjoyed themselves too! It’s a win-win situation!
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