Daydream Believers recording.
Those Mitchell And Webb Fans went to The Drill Hall (Drill! Hall!) to see Mitchell and Webb do a radio recording of Daydream Believers which was previously a Comedy Lab pilot for the telly in 2001 and is now a Saturday afternoon Radio 2 pilot for the 5th of May 2007. It’s a little bit sci-fi but has the usual things you would come to expect, and I don’t mean Olivia Colman and Mark Evans being in it although they both were actually in it. James Bachman was not in it but was there, in a chair, over there. Mark Benton was also in it (Doctor Who link!) , as was Simon Greenall (Doctor Who link again!) who we still love from Mash And Peas even though that was years ago now. We worked the room afterwards and learnt that Olivia Colman is reasonably pregnant (her second time) and that Bruiser was her first television work. We also learnt that she is involved in a forthcoming M&W sketch project which we assumed was location work for series two of ‘Look.’ We also learnt that James Bachman’s beard is going to be gone by the end of the week when he does that thing with Celia Imrie and Anthony Head (yet another Doctor Who link!) , and that David Mitchell is still rather shy but Robert Webb loves to talk to us fan geeks. We also learnt the dates for the new third series of That Mitchell And Webb Sound and a special warm-up for the second series of That Mitchell And Webb Look. But we are not stalkers. And everyone has been in Doctor Who. Probably.
James Bachman and another impressive beard.
Olivia Colman on the soft drinks.
Robert Webb recommends That Mitchell And Webb Log.
David Mitchell looks less scared of us this time.
Robert and That Chezza The Superfan.
This is the description for the original Comedy Lab version. See how much it has changed when you listen to the radio on May 5th:
Two men share a house. One is Ray, who earns a good living by writing strange sci-fi books about Baron Amstrad, a Hitlerian despot touring the galaxy with his space crew. The other is Colin, his somewhat confused lodger and friend, whose main task seems to be rubbing ointment into the spots on Colin’s back. Parallel storylines (and character roles) portray their humdrum existence, including Colin’s temporary association with some hypocritical anti-capitalists determined to change the world from their Billericay base, and Baron Amstrad’s determination to wreak interstellar havoc.
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