Look Around You celebrates it’s tenth anniversary this year and to commemorate this fact and cement its cult status, the shows creators Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz screened all eight episodes of the first series to a sold-out audience at the BFI  in London, where they were also joined by their good friend Mr Johnathan Ross, as the evening’s host, and Tim Kirkby, the director of Look Around You.

Halfway through the screening, the audience were also treated to Markets of Britain and a short ‘Intermission Film’ that was created especially for the night by Robert and Peter that you can see for yourself below:

Over on his blog, Robert Popper writes:

“It was a really touching, lovely event full of our old crew members and Look Around You aprreciators. Thanks all for coming. It meant a lot to us.”

Let us know if you were there on the night inthe comments below and if you took any pics then by all means post a link to them as well.

Chortle, the premier source of comedy news, reviews and listings in the UK, recently sat down with Peter to talk about Buttefield, Arrested Development, Bad Sugar and more:

He’s a superb mimic and talented comic actor who pops up in all manner of programmes – although his own star vehicle was short lived. But the prolific Peter Serafinowicz is about to have a bumper year, with a batch of new movie projects in the pipeline.

His hapless overweight businessman Brian Butterfield is to become the star of his own film; he’s appearing in the big-screen version of cult American sitcom Arrested Development, and he’s developing The Other Side, the Radio 4 series apparently broadcast from the afterlife, for Film 4.

Next year also sees the publication of his first joke book – and he’s just finished shooting the pilot of Channel 4’s Bad Sugar, written by Peep Show’s Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. All that and he’s making tentative appearances on London’s stand-up circuit to boot.

The Butterfield movie – which he is writing with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, placing the character as an inept private investigator – could be the one that makes his name. Serafinowicz likens the plot to the Pink Panther and Naked Gun series. ‘We wanted to do a modern Clouseau movie but with our character’ he explains. ‘So he’s a really unsuccessful detective, just one of his many businesses that fail. Then this terrible detective becomes embroiled in a real case.’

Also working the screenplay are Serafinowicz’s brother James and Andrew Ellard, script editor for The IT Crowd and Red Dwarf.

‘We’re on the fourth or fifth incarnation of the script’ says 39-year-old Serafinowicz. ‘We want to spoof the genre like The Naked Gun and Police Squad but we’re trying to make the character three-dimensional. It’s great fun fleshing him out, giving him a backstory and family life.’

Last seen in August in a guest appearance on Shooting Stars, Butterfield made his TV debut on The Peter Serafinowicz Show. Promoting himself as a workplace injury lawyer, dietician and speaking clock amongst other doomed business ventures, The Butterfield Detective Agency revealed a less than impressive chameleonic range, including ‘lord mayor’s croupier’, ‘pyramid worker’ and ‘gay man’, as he pledged to return kidnapped loved ones ‘dead or alive’.

You can read the complete interview here.

Having conquered a gippy stomach, painful wetsuit rash and fear of swans, the comic actor David Walliams clambered exhausted but triumphant from the water in London on Monday after completing his epic charity swim along 140 miles of the river Thames.

The Little Britain star’s Sport Relief Big Splash Challenge took eight days, during which his 110,738 strokes burned off an estimated 65,574 calories and raised £1,093,325 – and counting – as he ended his journey early on Monday evening .

Full article at The Guardian

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Arcola Comedy has just released tickets for their new show featuring and incredible line up of Peter Serafinowicz, Brian Gittins, Matthew Osborn, Elis James, Adam Belbin and Adam Hess.

ARCOLA TENT is an exciting pop-up, mixed arts temporary venue hosting world-class professional and community events delivered by Arcola Theatre and a wide range of local, national and international arts and community organisations.

The Tent has its OWN toilet facilities.

More tent information and ticket purchasing CLICK HERE.

Over at the Brisbane Times they’ve pulled in their top 10 comedy sketches of all time. They’ve chosen to go in reverse order with number 10 being the best and number 1 being the most rubbish. Of course coming in top is the legendary Darth Vader in Love, but it’s followed up extremely closely in  first and a half place by In De Gloria, the legendary interview gone wrong.

View the complete list here.

Over at our favourite blog BOING BOING is the latest interview with Robert Popper, internet prankster and co-creator of the Nobel Prize winning Look Around You.

Click here then click another link then you’re on your own.

A clip from the all new series This is Jinsy. Starting on Monday 19th September with a double bill from 10.10pm - it’s Sky Atlantic’s HD’s first original comedy and we know someone who’s on it.

Enjoy it or be damned.

If you missed the show you can head in to the archives and check it out here.