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Interview: Greg Davies, comedian

'I get kids shouting at me in the street every ten seconds on average," chuckles Greg Davies of his role in teenage sitcom The Inbetweeners, in which he plays the angrily simmering teacher Mr Gilbert.

You may recognise Rhod from his various panel show appearances, but here the Welsh comedian hosts his own show in which he answers some of the public's burning questions alongside Lloyd Langford - his flatmate - and Greg Davies, star of The Inbetweeners. This week the trio are joined by Jo Brand, Amanda Byram and Kate Silverton, but despite such a huge cast of guests, Gilbert's laconic style shines through.

Edinburgh Interview: Greg Davies

Having performed stand-up comedy since 2002, this year Greg Davies takes his first solo show to Edinburgh.

Edinburgh fringe comedy round-up

From Des Bishop and Greg Davies to Nina Conti and Pippa Evans, reviews the best of this year's word-of-mouth comedy hits.

After the japery of last year's hit-and-miss sitcom We Are Klang, silly comedy trio We Are Klang (Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood) get another pop at a BBC3 show. This time the Klangers are hosting a fictional revue show featuring the trio acting out various interviews, sketches and songs as different characters - often dressed in little but their pants. Its success will depend on whether audiences embrace or loathe Klang's slapstick, which veers towards the rambunctious rather than the surreal.

After one series of sitcommy larks last year, frantic trio We Are Klang are back with a pilot for a new format, which suggests they've been told to rethink. It's worked - this is funnier. On a cardboard set, with a script that's equally ramshackle, they play various characters, almost all of whom end up being hit, dry-humped or covered in food. At the centre is Greg Davies, an enormous, prancing man constantly suppressing a giggle, which will be annoying if you're not laughing too. But the Klang have a knack for bludgeoning apparently hopeless material, eg an item about hoodies attacking ill-looking people with vegetables, into working. Meanwhile, a sketch with Davies as a mad female faith healer could be a Shooting Stars offcut, and the running gag spoofing a Noel Edmonds NTV prank is a peach.

If slapstick be the food of love, play on. Though winning with its relentless stupidity, the Klang team's last series We Are Klang was not a complete success. It looked like too much of the fun was had in the studio without transmitting home. So the trio of stupid comedians (Steve Hall (Mike), Greg Davies (Rick), Marek Larwood (Vivian)) went away and refined their act. Well, refined is putting too fine a point on it.

They made a fake variety show featuring a lot of fake stupid acts. tvBite was totally won over by the arrival of Donkey Dunkirk, who dresses a donkey in a Nazi uniform and then punching it out cold. But we can understand if you think it sounds rubbish so here's a quick test to see if you will like it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. How long would you have to repeat that for it to become funny? If fairly on you found a lot of 'stupid' very funny, tune in. If you can repeat it to yourself like Paxman asking Michael Howard a question, then avoid.

The music panel show continues as Noel Fielding settles into his new role as permanent team captain opposite the immovable Phill Jupitus. Comedian Rhod Gilbert takes the guest presenter's chair tonight (replacing Simon Amstell who has now left the series). Fielding is joined by sports presenter Gabby Logan and Jeremy Reynolds from trendy electro band Hockey. Facing them is a far more intriguing line-up comprised of Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp and gravel-voiced comedian Greg Davies, who plays the angry head of sixth form in The Inbetweeners.

We Are Klang: Aliens

The final episode of the Klang series is entitled 'Alien' and there is nothing ambiguous about the title and subsequent content; it's about Aliens.

The adventures of the Klang mob are beyond silly, but Greg Davies, Marek Larwood and Steve Hall are so likable as the useless council officers that it's hard not to go along with their rambunctiousness. Tonight there's an implausibly efficient juggler-burglar careering through town; he's even stolen the mayor's wig. He claims to have contracted a juggling virus: "What, you mean to tell me juggling is catching?" asks Greg.