Lucy Porter

The Fringe continues to upstage high culture in festive Edinburgh. Saturday's Sean Lock and Friends patchily celebrates Auld Reekie's comedy obsession. Worst: the host himself and Lucy Porter's perfunctory turn. Best: Stephen K. Amos, sardonically articulate.

Martin Hoyle, The Financial Times, 30th August 2008

The advent of 24-hour drinking may have largely deprived this sort of comedy of its natural constituency - the punter who consumes his bodyweight in Last Orders beer and then staggers off in search of radio-based hilarity - but that doesn't stop the Beeb from commissioning it.

Frankly, if you're sober none of it makes much sense, but it appears that the Scrooby of the title (played by the writer of the series, Andy Parsons) has gone missing but has left a series of recordings on his MP3 player, each describing his experience of various lifestyles, some of them alternative and some not.

The impressive list of guest stars includes Dara O'Briain, Frankie Boyle, Marcus Brigstocke and Lucy Porter, proof - if nothing else - that Parsons has some good friends on the stand-up circuit. There's also an interactive element that involves contacting a website and suggesting other enterprises for him to 'investigate'.

Chris Campling, The Times, 26th June 2008