Channel 4 is being especially nice to comedy music stars this year by giving a couple of them a chance to show off their skills in TV pilots. The 4funnies series is highlighting new comic talent, and among them are comedy-songs.com's favourites the Rubberbandits and Nick Helm .
First up is the Rubberbandits (Blindboy Boat Club and Mr Chrome to their friends) and you can catch songs and sketches from the two surreal Irish plastic-bag wearing rappers on Channel 4 (in the UK) at 11.15pm tonight. The episode was directed by Declan Lowney who also directed Father Ted.
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Then on 14 December at 11.25pm you can see Nick Helm in Uncle as an out-of work musician forced to look after his 11 year-old nephew on the day he was planning to kill himself.
Also getting a pilot is Dr Brown (played by Phil Burgers, hit of the 2010 (and 2011) Edinburgh Festival) - you can still see this on 4OD - and Brian Gittins, who you can also see in Ricky Gervais's new series Derek.
Back to the Rubberbandits though, and here's a sneak preview of tonight's show, showing the Rubberbandits' thoughts on how to deal with Danny Dyer...