An awkward smattering of celebrities...

A couple of nights ago I attended a party to celebrate the opening of ComedyBox - Warner's new internet comedy project. Some of my comedy troop's sketches, if comedy troop is the right thing to call it (which it isn't), will be exhibited on the sight, hence our invite. The night was fun, free and filled with big name guests - Little Mo from Eastenders, Alan Davies and Sarah Cawood (her with red hair off top of the pops) to name but a few. You see, big big names.

Like all media parties this one had its hilarious wacky edge; the waiters practically naked and covered with green body paint... And, like all media parties this one left me feeling a little guilty as to excess of this fair isle. Still, Bill Bailey's band, with Kevin Eldon as front man, played a stormer and I got hideously drunk in front of my girlfriend. So all good there then.

However, that hasn't been the strangest night of my week. No, not really. The previous evening Flynn and The Wit played the inaugural HUSH night at the Royal Albert Hall. What's HUSH Matt I can hear you cry? Well, Sir, HUSH is a new project to encourage younger people into the Albert Hall, albeit not into the main space but into the Elgar Room - an old restaurant oft frequented by Laurence Olivier and his monologues.

The event had been bigged up hugely by everyone involved, and by the press too, and though I never get a huge sense of occasion at things like this, it was indeed a special night - great crowd, good set and excellent feedback. It was a little strange though, with band and audience alike not completely sure as to how to inhabit this quite unusual space. The audience itself was a pretty mixed bunch too, it must be said. Braces-clad teens rubbed shoulders with old Albert Hall dignitaries, making it a quite bizarre spectacle from the vantage of my drum stool.

My favourite part of the evening, however, has to be when an unaware Lillie Flynn told a bemused interviewer how thrilled she was to be playing in a room that had seen the likes of Sir Laurence of Olivier perform here in the past. Genius.