Live from Studio One again
Week 2 of 2 at TV Centre for Look D was almost as funny as week 1, and that’s still damn funny. The massive queues outside made us think that more than one thing was being recorded on that evening and we were not wrong. Look what we could have seen instead:
The more glittery people waiting in the bar area went through the doors to see this particular prospective TV gold but we managed to resist for some reason. The Congo audience had approximately 40% less clothing than the M&W lot, how daring on a cold dark March night. But anyway… on with the show!
Lucy Porter was doing the warm up this week which meant a thoroughly entertaining time as she always keeps people interested during the “fuck-ups” and she even brought some charity shop tat along as random prizes for the inevitable 16 year old boys interesting individuals she finds at these things. She correctly pointed out that husband Jamie wasn’t with me this time and everyone learnt that he was at home with a bad cold, poor thing. We’ve met before and even before that time. Such infamy.
This week’s highlights included a load of sketches that were tried out at the Drill Hall last November (A Prayer And A Pint seemed to go down very well), some more Christmasyness for no good reason at all (damn that old Christmas Special axing, maybe it has left mental scars), the screen debut of a very cute baby, and a bit of a theme involving making the show more poignant in order to show the end credits uninterrupted by squishing them to trail the next programme.
Fact! The one character who has appeared in every series has a brief cameo in a photograph.
Fact! A man plays a woman with her face obscured but when her arse is shown it is a lady’s posterior.
Fact! “UP YOURS!” is a great new catchphrase but you have to do the actions.
Fact! There have been two separate unconnected KKK moments filmed. Sinister.
I met some nice ladies in the green room who had won guest list tickets in a charity raffle, managed to get to the cheesy balls this week, had nice chats with some of the writers as usual and added another famous parent to my (non-existent) I-Spy checklist.
We wandered past the They Drink It In The Congo green room on the way out and were almost tempted. Almost.
Random extra fact: Saw a poster for Fat Pig from when Rob was starring in it at the tube station which made no sense unless I had travelled in an extra dimension to get home.
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March 7th, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Its been yet another good round up of sketches
One more thingy to get into 