BBC Three is a weird channel, isn't it? It staged a very successful relaunch earlier in the year and presented us with a tantalising glimpse of what it could be, thanks to a series of excellent and varied drama pilots. The lovely Dawn Porter also showed up with some accessible documentaries, but comedy is something the channel doesn't seem to have cracked. Relatively out-there (but good) stuff like MeeBox was shunted to silly time slots and eventually not taken up, and things that don't seem to fit in with the channel's narrow demographic (fill in your own stats here) suffer a similar fate. How Not To Live Your Life, the brainchild of comedian Dan Clark, is shunted in a poor time slot (10.30pm) but I'm happy to say that it looks as though it is cultivating a fairly healthy cult following.

I'd not seen the show before (I missed the pilot last year too) but it's one of those sitcoms that you can very easily slip into. A friend urged me to watch it, so I did last night and I relatively enjoyed it.

It's basically Dan Clark playing a deluded loser, who is girlfriendless, jobless and pretty much everything else-less. Everything he touches turns to brown stuff, but he still believes he's the coolest man in the world. It's a familiar premise - David Brent anyone? - and there's a definite whiff of Peep Show about it too in the way Dan provides an 'inner narration' and often talks to camera.

Other neat little tricks include cut-away dream sequences, where Dan provides alternative put-downs or physical moves he wished he had thought about at the time (we've all wished that we had said that killer line at some point in our lives). Last night, we saw 8 Ways Dan Shouldn't Dance, alternative ways to deal with annoying teenagers and what he wished he had said to his Amazonian flatmate (played by ex-Hollyoaks and Drop Dead Gorgeous hubba-bubba actress Sinead Moynihan) while she was necking with her annoying and square boyfriend Karl on the sofa.

In last night's episode Dan took a job as a charity street worker (lots of comic potential there). He got friendly with a colleague, a new rave type who was almost a decade younger than him but was keen. So, with the credit card he 'borrowed' from Karl, he took her out, bought her drinks and some new garishly-coloured clothes. Anything to show Abby (his hubba-housemate) that he was cool. It worked. By the end of the episode, Abby realised that Karl was square and Dan was actually fun.

This will-they won't they relationship was the most boring part of the show for me. What I enjoyed were the spot-on piss takes of youth chat, new rave (the whole scene in the club was like an updated version of the same sort of scene in Spaced 10 years ago) and Noughties counter culture in general. So I can see why people are watching and enjoying How Not To Live Your Life - it doesn't offer anything particularly new and groundbreaking, but there's some juvenile humour (hurrah!) and plenty of nice observations, and in Dan Clark BBC Three have a bit of a new poster boy. Don't even get me started on Sinead Moynihan.