Put together six stand up comedians. Hold them all together by a relatively competent host who also is a pretty accomplished comedian. Get them to discuss the current affairs of the week, and you?ve got yourself Mock The Week.
Shown on BBC Two, and religiously on Dave (would you expect anything else?!), it?s hosted by Dara Ó Briain ? an irish comedian who has done several appearances on several other comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You and Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Regular panelists include Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Russell Howard and Frankie Boyle?or that was until last week when Boyle declared he wished to leave the show to ?persue? other ideas. Dare I suggest his own comedy programme? I think so.
They sieve through various topics of the week in a variety of ways ? one round is ?If this is the answer, what is ...
carl.mcqueen 09.10.2009
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Advantages: An easy to read summary of the week's main news stories Disadvantages: Not for those who like their news in detail
A copy of The Week landed on my doorstep this morning, it wasn't addressed to anyone, just had an extra cover saying "Claim a further 6 FREE issues". Well before I go clogging up my doormat I thought I'd better have a good read of it to see what it was all about for myself (having only recently read another review here at Ciao about the same publication). It's endorsed by Ben Elton, "The Week is a brilliant idea. Superbly executed." I'm sorry but that doesn't mean anything to me. If you don't think much of Mr Elton, an endorsement by him isn't going to help sell this publication.
The tagline below the The Week reads "All you need to know about everything that matters." The publication itself seems to be made of rather cheap quality paper, the pages are so thin that they're almost see through. It loses points there for me already. If ...
anonymili 11.02.2006 (13.10.2008)
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Advantages: great comical quiz show Disadvantages: none for me
what make the show as comically popular as it has become.
Personally, I can?t help but laugh at the way the panellist perform through the show, managing to bounce off each other with some fine one liners, comically slating each other, sometimes involving members of the audience? and even O?Briain gets some pasting as well, giving just as much as he gets?
In all, a brilliant comical look at some of the news from the week and if you enjoy watching the likes of shows such as ?have I got news for you? or even ?whose line is it anyway? then this is defiantly for you as the humour is the same for of quick witted dryness that makes such shows as popular as they are.
If you like the show then you may be interested in the DVD, entitled Mock the Week: Too hot for TV, released in November 2007, consisting of three hours of entertainment ...
blissman70 26.02.2009
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