I can't remember what I was doing between 6.30 and 7.00pm on Thursday.  Probably painstakingly resizing a picture of some B-list comedian so it fits properly around the text in the top left hand corner of a news story about a rumour that they might be buying a fish & chip shop, or something equally similar.  All so you can find out what's going on in the world of comedy.  You're welcome.

So, thank goodness for the BBC Radio online 'Listen Again' facility.  I was looking through the listings for comedy programmes that I had heard of or that I hadn't heard of but looked interesting when I found this gem.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb have put together a wonderful radio comedy programme of satirical sketches.  The show is a relativly quick-fire montage of sketches, which manages to be topical while not directly impersonating or parodying any specific figures, in the same way the shows such as Dead Ringers do.

Unfortunately however, this article is now somewhat academic, as the series finished this week (isn't it always the way.  You find some new gem of comedy, only to find out that you have actually missed the whole series, like an After-Eight mint splattered solemnly across a railway track - or some other plausible analogy).

You can still listen the final episode of 'That Mitchell & Webb Sound' on the BBC Radio 4 website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/, and we suggest you do, before it gets replaced with another light but topical specialist semi-comedy quiz/panel show.