Top comedian reveals his Channel 4 show is SCRAPPED after pilot was ‘disaster’ – ‘I’ve never seen them do that before’

A TOP comedian revealed his potential Channel 4 show was SCRAPPED after a disaster pilot.

Last summer, James Acaster presented game show pilot People Person.

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Speaking on the podcast, he confirmed it won't be progressing to a full series.

The comedian said: "It was three hours of filming and I'd say everything went wrong that could have gone wrong."

Despite the chaos that ensued, James admitted he "absolutely loved it".

He continued: "At one point I said to the audience, 'I think what they should do is just take these three hours, cut them up into six half hours in real time and put it out as a series'."

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James added: "I've never seen them do that before.

"This is absolutely [what we should do], this has been so f*****g nuts."

Meanwhile, the format was based on a game James devised for Dave show Question Team.

It saw comics guess various traits about different members of the public.

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For example, who had the biggest garden or had the most battery life on their phone.

The segment performed well on social media, so Channel 4 took a chance in further developing it.

James explained: "It went from having four members of the public and four panellists to having 20 members of the public on stage behind me as well, who are also playing the game.

"And those four members of the public who are guessing… and the studio audience was there and  [they had] things that they had to vote with to to say what they thought the right answer was."

Various mishaps took place while filming the pilot episode.

A wrestler needed multiple takes after breaking a sugar glass vase too early.

Having cut himself, the performer required first aid - breaking character to ask if he needed to do it again.

This fallout left comedian Phil Wang "laughing so hard" and with "tears streaming".

In addition, Larry Dean had a "cube" intended to light up, but according to James, it kept "f*****g up".

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