Last night I went to see a recording of a new radio 4 panel show pilot. These are generally always good and seeing them live and in their entirity is even better.

Given the recent popularity of twitted there were tons of people there. Far more than ended up getting in. It would have been too much for them to turn people away at the door. Oh no we had to wait at the bar for an hour like waiting for a plane to board with ever increasing numbers called to get people seated in the auditorium. Rather unluckily for me I discovered that the capacity for blue wristbanded individuals, ie me, was 188, and since I also appeared to share that numbered ticket with someone else, I didn’t get in at first. Like some kind of prize-less careless lottery we stood for a few minutes fairly nonplussed before finally let in to take up the last few pirches.

In addition to Brooker the guests included David Mitchell, Victoria Coren and Marcus Hound. The format was pretty loosely tied around wrongness an failure, but really it was basically a panel game version of Room 101. It was a bit hit and miss and although Brooker had some good lines, David mitchell saved proceedings with excellent rants about the Internet, notably (moreorless) “is it really worth throwing TV on the bin for the ability to find out the names of the wombles in less than 2 seconds”. Also when Brooker suggested that celebrities will soon be filmed in the toilet, Mitchell retorted “that’s progres is it?”

So pretty worthwhile on the whole. Or at least better than a night working out how technically to implement google analyitics over multiple domains. For some reason I am convinced that question will surface in my google interview later. Who knows?