(Sorry, this is more 'performing stand-up' than 'comedy writing', but as we don't yet have a 'performing stand-up' forum - we will on the new site incidently - I'm sticking it here for now...)
So, anyway, Channel 4 have this project where they're following around 15 young people for a year. Not quite sure why, but they are. They've pointed out to me that Simon, one of the people they're following, is an aspiring comedian... so I've just logged on to their site to have a look. If you're interested, you can follow his progress here: http://www.yeardot.co.uk/whoweare-4/simon-jenkins.html
What is definitely worth a watch is the second video (The Competition Gig) - the poor guy completely dies on his arse on stage! Based on that, somehow I don't think his Edinburgh dream is going to work out.