New Series - Mock The Week

[Dravinian]

The gags from the unlikely things a superhero skit were funny from Frankie; the WTC and the Joker one were right on the knuckle!

He seems to me to be a fuckton funnier, sharper and quicker than the others. Is the show scripted?

To a certain degree I expect it is. Dara obviously has a script in essence, but obviously it doesn't go anything like what we see. It isn't like an episode of EastEnders, where a storyboard is laid out for every word and glance.

It is also a topical show, so the guests know the stories are going to be related to what happens in the week, so they make some of their jokes before hand, knowing that it is likely that the story of SoandSo will be talked about in the show.

Saying that I think that the whole show is filmed in an hour or two and they are looking for the witticisms, the off the top of the head cracks when they are editing down to the 30mins we get to see.

 

[citydreams]

It's still the best 'live' comedy around, and Dara is the biggest kid on TV. A lot of the material might be tried and tested, but the first round is always a chance to unload some new gags... Loved this week's rant about the paralympics on steroids.... and the Cheese, Wine and Rubbish tag team

We went to the filiming but got turned away cause they'd given out too many tickets. Have prioirty seats for August though

 

[purves grundy]

Anyway.
Russell Howard.

I saw him wearing some geeky black glasses on telly the other day. He looked really hot!

Russell Howard is made to look so unfunny in the company of Jon Richardson, on Radio 6.

I like Dara wotisname and usually like this format for a programme, but this one does nothing for me for some reason.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Dara 'ERM' O'Brian.

Don't think he's particularly funny myself; I'm glad they dropped his live bit at the start.

 

[zoooo]

Russell Howard is made to look so unfunny in the company of Jon Richardson, on Radio 6.

Aw, you have a point, but I think they work brilliantly off each other.

 

[zoooo]

The gags from the unlikely things a superhero skit were funny from Frankie; the WTC and the Joker one were right on the knuckle!

He seems to me to be a fuckton funnier, sharper and quicker than the others. Is the show scripted?

Those two jokes were great!!

 

[TrippyLondoner]

I like this show because it's funny and makes me laugh. Andy Parsons, Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard and Hugh Dennis are all particularly good at making me laugh, leaving aside any personality issues they may have in real life. Dara O'whatsit is funny but I wish he wouldn't do that classic stand-up thing of going 'errrr' after every gag he cracks, it's really annoying.

And I'm sorry to say this, but every female comedian I've ever seen on there has been shit. Lucy Porter: shit. Jo Caulfield: shit. Gina Yashere: shit. In fact, every time I've encountered any of these three they've been desperately unfunny. Perhaps they are better in real life, as it were (I've only seen or heard them on tv and radio) but I would cross the road to avoid any of them based on current evidence.

100% agreed. You're not the only one to have said all the women aren't funny.

 

[Cid]

I would agree with pretty much everything you wrote there apart from one thing

Andy Parsons. Don't know if it's just me but I just don't find him that funny. Not sure if it's just the voice but I find him the least funny on the show.

Not alone, his timing and delivery are just poor... He's like that guy in the pub who thinks he's the life of the party, but when you come back 30 years later he's still going to be there telling the same jokes and getting the same awkward laughter. Or something.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I find this programme really amateurish and the jokes quite unfunny and obvious.

Would I Lie To You on the other hand is hilarious.

 

[Dravinian]

I find this programme really amateurish and the jokes quite unfunny and obvious.

Would I Lie To You on the other hand is hilarious.

Really?

Call My Bluff for the 90s, done badly. Mitchell isn't bad, he has some funny lines every now and again, but as a format the show is piss poor.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Would I lie to you is rather unfunny and obvious.

 

[Murdoch]

If anyone has tickets to see Frankie Boyle live then stop watching him appear on stuff like this.

Much of the stuff he did when I saw him in Reading this year was recycled stuff from the TV.

The warm up guy with a massive beard was funnier on the whole.

 

[DexterTCN]

What about Hugh Dennis then? Fucking useless, a waste of space. Embarrassing.

Frankie is owning this entire show, though. Hope he's at the Edinburgh Festival.

 

[SK.]

What about Hugh Dennis then? Fucking useless, a waste of space. Embarrassing.

Frankie is owning this entire show, though. Hope he's at the Edinburgh Festival.

I actually like him but must admit this week he was so invisible on the show I was surprised. Thing is when people say about it being scripted and recycled. Hugh Dennis last week cracked a joke on MTW and in the same week on the Friday night episode of the Now Show he cracked exactly the same joke.

 

[zoooo]

Well, they use material for their current standup routines etc. You're going to get a bit of overlap.

 

[fogbat]

What about Hugh Dennis then? Fucking useless, a waste of space. Embarrassing.

Frankie is owning this entire show, though. Hope he's at the Edinburgh Festival.

I really enjoy Hugh Dennis's bits. He's very good at playing slightly barking middle-class English characters.

I was really disappointed to read about El Jefe's friend's experience with Frankie Boyle. He regularly has me cackling with laughter.

 

[zoooo]

I've also heard stories where he's been nice!
Don't let it bother you.

 

[DexterTCN]

I really enjoy Hugh Dennis's bits. He's very good at playing slightly barking middle-class English characters.

He's not playing it.

Now you mention it he is also totally one-dimensional as well as unfunny.

 

[mk12]

Frankie Boyle is the only good thing about this show.

 

[zoooo]

Hugh Dennis is fantastic on Outnumbered. (that sitcom with the kids.)
He's lovely.

 

[DexterTCN]

Oh great so he's a fiddler as well?

 

[scifisam]

Frankie Boyle and Dara O'Brien (Brian?) are the only ones who've said 'funny' things which just left me straight-faced. They crossed the line too far for me.

They're both funny most of the time, though, and I love Russell Howard and Andy something. They seem to be best at off-the-cuff remarks. That's based on only seeing the last three episodes of this show - has Hugh Dennis been edited to fuck or something? He was silent for the most part.

The guest on this week's episode, Michael something, looked like a Nu Labour wannabee, was dire. There was laughter at some of his jokes, but I wonder if it was, again edited in. Any anecdote which starts 'so there was Carol Vorderman and me in an elevator, and, hahahaha, this was hilarious,' is at best worthy of a dinner party, not a TV slot!

The other guest on this week's episode (ep 4) was pretty good, though.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I don't find Michael Mcintyre terribly funny, and he keeps giggling which is really off putting.

Russell was last night's clear winner. Frankie wasn't on form. Mark Watson is quite good.

 

[May Kasahara]

I love Mark Watson

 

[Dravinian]

I don't find Michael Mcintyre terribly funny, and he keeps giggling which is really off putting.

Russell was last night's clear winner. Frankie wasn't on form. Mark Watson is quite good.

I think myself and Russell have the same sense of humour, because Frankie Boyle destroys us both.

Last night you could see Russell just destroyed, and this happens week after week, when Frankie says something. Russell just cracks up, as do I.

Like Russell said in the first episode of this new series...

"You know, I missed you Frankie."

Because no one else says the things that Frankie Boyle says.

 

[Epico]

The guest on this week's episode, Michael something, looked like a Nu Labour wannabee, was dire. There was laughter at some of his jokes, but I wonder if it was, again edited in. Any anecdote which starts 'so there was Carol Vorderman and me in an elevator, and, hahahaha, this was hilarious,' is at best worthy of a dinner party, not a TV slot!

Michael McIntyre is an odius little toryboy fuckwit and no mistake.

 

[secretsquirrel]

I have a bit of a 'thing' for Russell Howard despite his weird teeth. I make a point of getting up on a Sunday so I can listen to him and Jon Richardson on 6music because they talk such utter shite Perfect background for a late breakfast and some Sunday pottering...

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Most of last nights episode was a bit shit imo. Didn't feel like laughing during most of it and normally always do.

 

[George & Bill]

It's sometimes amusing, which is not surprising, because it has some amusing panellists. But the format doesn't work. IMO, panel games don't work when they require the panellists to appear to be trying too hard. So having a show that is half panel games, half stand-up vehicle doesn't work. The 'adverts they wouldn't make' (or whatever) feature just produces some atrocious material.

Plus they do have some awful guests - Steve Punt/Hugh Dennis (not sure which ) was on the other night, and he is just painful.

 

[Dravinian]

It's sometimes amusing, which is not surprising, because it has some amusing panellists. But the format doesn't work. IMO, panel games don't work when they require the panellists to appear to be trying too hard. So having a show that is half panel games, half stand-up vehicle doesn't work. The 'adverts they wouldn't make' (or whatever) feature just produces some atrocious material.

Plus they do have some awful guests - Steve Punt/Hugh Dennis (not sure which ) was on the other night, and he is just painful.

Hugh Dennis is a team capt on every week, I don't remember seeing Punt on there, though I could be mistaken.

I thought Parson's quip that the Dictionary Corner of Countdown becoming Unionised would prove exciting because it is a 9 letter word.....was extremely quick and witty. To even realise it was a 9 letter word was quite impressive and he picked it up immeadiately, and then formed it into a joke, I was quite impressed.

Which is odd as I agree with most here, I don't find him particularly funny most weeks.