Set Of Six

Set of Six (Channel 4) is billed as entertainment, but is clearly a human tragedy. [...] One wonders that anyone at Channel 4 ever allowed it to get on air. [p=1596]Rivron/p] is a likeable and highly original comedian, but he desperately needs to find somebody with the production sense to harness his talent. As it is, Set of Six is Doctor in the House on Valium.

Roland Rivron is a one-off, which happily has not stopped him doing a series Set Of Six (Channel 4) in which he plays sextuplets. He is the only comedian I watch in perfect silence interrupted by occasional lunatic whoops. It is like being lost in a forest at night with a tuft eared owl. Sometimes his comedy doesn't seem to be working at all and when it does it takes you by wild surprise.