Young One signs up for C4 sitcom

He’s often described himself as looking like a ‘fat Rik Mayall’... and now comedian Greg Davies will play the Young One’s son in a new Channel 4 sitcom.

Mayall has been cast in Davies’s semi-autobiographical sitcom, Man Down, about a disillusioned teacher and ‘childish idiot trapped in an adult's life’.

The casting is hardly flattering for Mayall, who at 55 is ten years older than Davies, but he joked: ‘It means I impregnated someone when I was 12, and that's pretty rock and roll.’

Mayall took part in a pilot episode in November but has now been confirmed for the full series, which is set to start filming soon.

It is one of several current TV comedies set around schools, including Jack Whitehall's Bad Education, and David Walliams’s Big School,

Davies used to teach drama before turning to comedy – and got his biggest break playing another teacher, The Inbetweeners’ Mr Gilbert.

Published: 28 May 2013