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Pupils in an after-school comedy club are getting their own TV show.
School Of Comedy, named after the club run by stand-up comic-turned-teacher Laura Lawson in Chiswick, starts on E4 next week.
The youngsters, aged 12 to 18, all play adults in sketches involving rude landladies, cross-dressing plumbers, white van man and hopeless security guards.
The "laughing academy" was signed up after appearing at the Edinburgh Festival and on a pilot show last year for Channel 4's Comedy Lab series.
Cast member Will Poulter, 15, said people were puzzled by the idea of a show starring children but aimed at adults. "But when they see it they get the idea pretty quickly," he said. "We're making fun of the adult world, showing the various extremes of how we perceive them as behaving."
Ms Lawson started the fee-paying club at the Tabard Theatre, which now takes children from a number of schools in the area. She said: "With this TV deal, they feel like all their dreams have come true."
