Lucy don't like my Cheese

We showed up at BBC TV's Studio 8 last night for the filming of the comedy show pilot for "That Mitchell & Webb Look"...

Who? David Mitchell. Robert Webb. You know, the guys who did "Peep Show" and "That Mitchell & Webb Sound" on Radio 4... Ah, never mind.

The stand-up comedy chick, Lucy Porter, kept the audience amused inbetween the filming and the VT runs though when she asked where we were from, Yours Truly shouted out "Farnborough"... to which she asked my name, age and what was my favourite cheese! She was impressed with the speed of my answer to the cheese question but admitted she didn't like my choice so we weren't gonna work out.

Oooh, put-down. Methinks she performed a swift psychological profiling, equated the rapid reply of "Gorgonzola" as the fromage du soiree for a potential heckler/psychopath and ditched me quicker than an anthrax inhaler. Last year at the Comedy Club, when Paul Merton wanted suggestions for the ad-libbing of a sketch, I shouted "doggy style" and they ran with it.

But no, she was funny and great with the less dangerous members of society, picking out Thor's beard, a bookshop manager and a lot of students from the audience for a bit of idle banter on the joys of living in Elephant & Castle, what the scientist Michael Farraday did and her hatred of "The DaVinci Code" and lack of passion for chart music.

So the show was good fun, it was interesting to see the filming and the sketches, especially the alcoholic snooker commentators ("ooh, that's a bad miss"), the caveman cop show, the reluctant German SS officer discussing the cons of having a skull for a regimental badge ("Well it's better than a rat's arse!") and the bizarre quiz show NumberWang!!

It'll be great if the series takes off on BBC2 sometime...

...though I wonder what would've happened if I'd not worn a bright red t-shirt and said "Port Salut" instead?